Home made Christmas

For Christmas 2012, we decided to make as many presents for each other as we could. We wanted to save money, and make Christmas more meaningful.  Here's a few of the projects we worked hard on to make for each other. 

 A multi-shot rubber band gun from Sarah to Alan. I actually made this entire thing, while Sarah had other plans for Alan to make him a sock monkey like she did for William, but Christmas Eve came and Sarah hadn't finished Alan's monkey, so I told her she could give him the rubber band gun I had already made. If Sarah had helped to make it, I would've had her help with the painting, sanding and finishing.  The plans to make it can be found at www.scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com

A bunkbed for Kaitlyn's American Girl Doll twins that Tom and I worked together to make. This is a very simple way to make a really good solid wood bunk bed for 18" dolls.  I got the plans from Ana-white.com. Tom and I worked together on this, which was quite a feat considering he was recovering from knee surgery.    I couldn't have done it without his help. My woodworking expertise is in carving wooden play food and making puzzles, not making furniture.    If I had the patience I would make more of these to sell, but well.... I don't... :) 

 

 A pretend birthday cake from Alan to Kaitlyn. Alan and I worked on this together. We thought of this on our own. We actually made this up as we went along with materials we had in our house. It's foam covered with colored sticky foam.

Sarah made this monkey for William from a pair of socks that she picked out especially for him. She stuffed it with both stuffing and rice. She wanted to make it a toy that he could warm up in the microwave. She thought of it on her own.