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Archive for December, 2007

Reusing Left Over Wrapping Paper

If you have wrapping paper left over from Christmas Day, or partial rolls of gift wrap that aren’t big enough to save, then try some of these recycling ideas for reusing gift wrap.
- Make beautiful loopy Wrapping Paper Bows with nothing more than small strips of paper, invisible tape and a small square of cardboard.
- Make paper beads [...]

Two Easy Oatmeal Facial Scrubs

I love bath and body recipes that I can make without going to a speciality store to buy the ingredients.  These two gentle facial scrub recipes fit the bill:  both rely on natural botanical ingredients that you may already have in your pantry - but, if you don’t - just add an inexpensive item or [...]

Paperback Snowman

Jolly Paperback Snowman is the third in our series of origami Christmas crafts made from recycled paperback books. 
The body of the snowman is made from a paperback book, and involves simple folding of about 400 pages.  Our Paperback Santa is made in much the same way, while the  Paperback Christmas Tree craft uses a similar method [...]

Pine Cone Christmas Crafts

Pine cones are a bountiful gift from nature that work wonderfully for Christmas crafts.  Try making these Miniature Pine Cone Christmas Trees, shown at left, from little more than pine cones and bottle caps, or top a clay pot with a pine cone, at right, to make an easy Pine Cone Topiary.
We also have two pretty angels to [...]

Bath and Beauty Crafts

You’ll find a new bath and body crafts section added to AllFreeCrafts this week.  As the site grows, so does the need to organize the crafts into easy to navigate sections; the new bath and body recipes category will include some gifts in a jar  but only those that relate to homemade bath products, cosmetics [...]