I mostly made my own cards, you can see them here: https://moem.dreamwidth.org/352618.html I did not make gifts. We don't do Christmas gifts here. Yesterday I made a Christmas tree! We were eating at my mother's house and she did not have a tree, but she did have some fallen branches; I used some bamboo sticks and tiewraps to make them into something that looked a lot like a small pine tree. Then I decorated it with baubles and garlands, and for lights I had some rainbow LEDs which looked very pretty and were also very lightweight. Since it wasn't an actual tree it could not support much but the whole thing ended up looking pretty Christmassy.
And a couple of weeks ago I hosted a workshop at our hackerspace where we made CDs and old harddisk platters into Christmas decorations, also using rainbow LEDs. They looked like this:
Huh, now that I think about it, it's been a good year for Christmas crafts. :-)
I managed to do two small cross stitch things from Misty Hill Studios for cards over the summer. This was the first time in a year or two that I managed to finish anything for Christmas; I still have a couple of Christmas things I started in previous years and haven't finished.
Yeah it's been fantastic so far!! And everything is SUPER cheap here — way cheaper than in Sweden anyway, that or the same cost but a lot better quality. We even found out that games on Origin (like SIMs) cost like HALF the cost if you're in Japan compared to in Sweden, since they up the price for Swedes for some reason...
I haven't had so much time for crafting since I've been out doing stuff (or in but sick/doing homework) but I've bought a couple mini new year's decorations and stuff like that... I'd like to start making my own decorations, like some of the fancy new year's ones look really cool, but I haven't found where to buy the plain materials. I bought a clasp(?) to make a coin purse but haven't bought fabric for the purse yet, I want to make a yukata, stuff like that.
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Date: 2017-12-25 06:51 am (UTC)No. I still need to wrap, though.
Hah. Sadly, no.
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Date: 2017-12-30 03:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-25 11:28 am (UTC)I did not make gifts. We don't do Christmas gifts here.
Yesterday I made a Christmas tree! We were eating at my mother's house and she did not have a tree, but she did have some fallen branches; I used some bamboo sticks and tiewraps to make them into something that looked a lot like a small pine tree. Then I decorated it with baubles and garlands, and for lights I had some rainbow LEDs which looked very pretty and were also very lightweight. Since it wasn't an actual tree it could not support much but the whole thing ended up looking pretty Christmassy.
And a couple of weeks ago I hosted a workshop at our hackerspace where we made CDs and old harddisk platters into Christmas decorations, also using rainbow LEDs. They looked like this:
Huh, now that I think about it, it's been a good year for Christmas crafts. :-)
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Date: 2017-12-25 07:15 pm (UTC)Ornaments:
and Aluminum Tree:
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Date: 2017-12-30 03:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-30 06:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-05 08:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-26 03:25 am (UTC)https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRz1Az9UEAAEdCL.jpg
We made the tablecloth out of some scrap fabric and decorated the orange... That's about it.
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Date: 2017-12-27 11:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-30 03:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-30 04:57 am (UTC)I haven't had so much time for crafting since I've been out doing stuff (or in but sick/doing homework) but I've bought a couple mini new year's decorations and stuff like that... I'd like to start making my own decorations, like some of the fancy new year's ones look really cool, but I haven't found where to buy the plain materials. I bought a clasp(?) to make a coin purse but haven't bought fabric for the purse yet, I want to make a yukata, stuff like that.