Use a *thin* layer of glue! I made a couple of sets with (short) poem verses, and couple of sets with little sayings, like “The best is yet to be,” “Laugh more,” “Be the change,” If not now, when?” etc. Then, take your Mod Podge or Elmer’s glue, and follow the process described above for the poem-on-a-tile project. If, like me, you have large and messy handwriting, avail yourself of a computer printer and print out some quotes, sayings, or poem verses that you find inspiring, beautiful or just fun. If you have small and very neat handwriting, you could paint or write directly on the rocks. If you live near a beach, you could probably get nice rocks for free. Get yourself some small rocks I purchased these “accent rocks” in the craft department at our local dollar store, so this gift literally costs less than a dollar. I made a bunch of sets, and for what it’s worth, all of the recipients seemed to really like them. Anyway: this idea is an amalgam of things I saw on Pinterest. Here in Boulder we associate it with New Age kinds of things like crystal healing. Note: I’m not sure if “woo-woo” is a universally understood term. Slightly woo-woo but fun: messages/poems on the rocks Put your tile on a plate stand for display in your house or in your loved one’s office! Just use a small paint brush to apply a very thin layer of glue/podge on the surface of the tile, then lay the paper on the wet glue/podge, and paint another very thin layer over the paper. For the lamination, I used Mod Podge (a decoupage sealer that you can get in craft stores), but Elmer’s Glue would work in a pinch. You could do lots of things as poetry crafts, but I just printed the poem out in large font and laminated it onto an interestingly cracked marble tile that was left over from a renovation project. I immediately loved it, and this year I’ve been on a poetry kick so I decided to make a gift for my husband from it (don’t worry, he’s too busy skiing to read my blog, so the surprise won’t be spoiled). Fun for anyone! You could do this type of project with other origami objects, or glue them to wood blocks, rocks, whatever.įor your special person: a love poem on a stoneĪ translator friend of mine has a fridge magnet with this poem, Recipe for happiness in Khabarovsk or Anyplace by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Then I hot-glued the cranes to the twigs. So I hired my daughter to fold a bunch of origami cranes of different sizes, then I pruned some branchy twigs off our apple trees and hot-glued them onto some interesting rocks. I was inspired by a book on “origami bonsai,” but the origami flowers and leaves looked fairly time-consuming (but beautiful!) to make. Have lots of fun pulling the intestines out and stuffing them back in again. Sew one end of the pink fleece to the bear’s stomach, then sew the black oval over it to create a pouch. Make an oval out of black fleece and cut a narrow strip of pink fleece about a foot long. The really cool element is the stomach pouch, out of which you can pull the bear’s “intestines,” which appear here as the pink tab on the right side of the abdomen. Then do some zombie’d-out eyes, a scar, etc. Or make this zombie teddy bear:įor this guy, I taped two pieces of printer paper together and drew a pattern, then cut the basic shape out of brown fleece. Sew on a tail if you want (we used a feather boa off an old Halloween costume). Sew on the ears, eyes and mouth before you sew the two sides together, then stuff your zombie. Use other colors to line the ears and make eyes, mouth, etc. These were my 11 year old’s idea, and we were pretty happy with how they turned out! Basic instructions: get some fuzzy fabric and cut a square with a rounded top. These require a minimal amount of sewing skill, and remember that the weirder a zombie looks, the better it is. Here are a few ideas that you can try, even in the days left before Christmas and New Year’s I give you my permission to steal any or all of these ideas, as long as you send me a brag photo of the results! It’s fun, it’s personal, it fits with the frugal lifestyle and it keeps us occupied during the time of year when the sun goes behind the mountains at 3:30. In the Thoughts on Translation household, we try to make most of our holiday gifts.
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