Meaning do it yourself!
Most of us by the age of 6 or 7 has already grown out of
home made presents. This year I have found my way back to the joy of creating.
I have to admit that a beanbag chair sewn by me has knocked out 10 boxes of LEGO
this Christmas. J
With Messzelátó Association I have attended a Christmas Present
Factory Workshop, where I made these beautiful earrings of gummy bears, beer
cans and shower gel caps, and afterwrards I also managed to keep all of them to
myself, I just couldn’t give them away.
So I continued the brainstrorming, what kind of presents
would make my loved ones happy and I decided by the technique of sewing since I
am quite not that bad in that already. I was also thinking in making home made
soaps and cute little purses for them, or making more jewelry or picture
frames, but these remained only ideas for next year. Anyone who would like to be surprised of my presents, please quickly forget I have said anything about this, OK? ;)
I started wrapping my symbolic little basils seed souvenirs
from Italy into the heart patterned fabric of my childhood snack bags and
weaved the decor ribbons from Xmas coloured threads. I hope all my friends will
be able to grow and taste the results and it will flavour their foods as all the organic ideas had done
with me and my life, just to keep to the metaphore. J Meanwhile I quickly whomped
up an advent wreath from all kinds of plants and berries for my Mom.
I keep stealing the ideas from great Hungarian blogs:
Lukrécia Kencéi (home made and organic cosmetics), Kreatív Anyabanya (Creative Witch
Mom), Ökoanyu (Eco Mom), Varróház (Sewing House), and Messzelátó Association.
Thanks for all! There is no shame in copying good ideas, it is easy to enhance
and wake your creativity this way! ;)
And the most important thing for me in this whole experience
was that all my love and efforts made their way to the recipients, and besides
recycling and sparing money and resources, together with the real spirit of
Christmas we tailor made our Holidays to be snappy and personal.
I just keep showing off all my products and achievements,
but beleive me, I haven’t created things this way for ages and all the products
make me so proud and the joy of creation filled me and infected all my family,
too.
I really recommend to everyone with all my heart to return
to the forgotten customs of doing it yourself, of being a child and prepare,
create make something imperfect as a present for your own joy.
In January I will be on the road again, next post most
probably will be comming from the Netherlands. And my own project also started
to outline itself, so hang on, stay tuned: to be continued! J
Till then I wish all of you a 2013 with love and health and
dreams comming true!