New Linky Party - Handmade Christmas by The Creative Factory

The Creative Factory is a group of 30 Italian bloggers who have joined forces to present 30 tutorials dedicated to gifts and decorations for Christmas, from the 20th of November to the 18th of December. Every day you'll find the preview of a tutorial on the blog C'e' crisi, c'e' crisi! and the link to the blog hosting for the day. Many of the bloggers participating write in English and Italian so it's easy to use their tutorials!

The Creative Factory bloggers:

Alessandra di Daisy Garden | Alex di C’é Crisi | Bogomilla di Bogomilla Hopp Kids| Barbara di Accidentaccio | Carmen di Lo dico Lo faccio | Daniela diDecoriciclo| Diana Ingrid di Artedim | Emanuela di  My little inspirations | Froda diFroda Creazioni | Giulia di Extreme cera persa | Iole di Ai piedi del carrubo | Kiki  e Illy di  Case per la testa | Laura di  I colori di Laura | Laura D di A very Laurie blog |Linda di Mami Gio’ | Manu e Flavia di Genitorialmente | Mara  di My Icecream Parlour | Marica e Tina di  I fiori di Marica | Marzia di La Taverna degli Arna |Nesta e Ella di Ella & Nesta's Little Room | Norma di  Voglio il mondo a colori |Ombretta di A Sunday morning with | Roberta di Colori Idee Creatività | Sara di Il blog di Maryanne | Silvia di Ma Petite Maison | Silvia di Fancy Hollow | Silvia diTine the Lazy | Simona di Me & Design |Stefania di Il castello Incantato | Veronica B  di Le creazioni di Ivy

HANDMADE CHRISTMAS LINKY PARTIES

If you have a tutorial for making decorations or gifts for Christmas you'd like to share, join the linky parties which are part of the Handmade Christmas event. The linky parties are open internationally. The more the merrier! All entries will show up at the same time on all the thirty blogs participating. The linky parties are open until the 31st of December.

Here are the three linky parties:

1) DIY Gifts (for those who want to create DIY  Chrismas gifts: tutorials and inspiration) – add your gift ideas;

2) Creative Projects for Christmas (for those looking for instructions for making home decor, trees, Advent calendars, etc.) – add your Christmas themed tutorials;

3) Handmade Gifts (for those who love and want to buy handmade objects created by italian artisans) add the link for your shop.

Remember to link to your blog post and not to your home blog page, so it's easy to find your tutorial. Any questions (or translations!) needed, drop me a line.

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A big thank you to Alex at C'e' crisi, c'e' Crisi! for inventing and promoting Handmade Christmas and for being such a volcano of contagious energy!

Grab our button and join the Christmas fun!

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Easy Gift Fabric Hand Warmers - Tutorials

This year I wanted to give something handmade to my colleagues for Christmas and came across some interesting tutorials in blogland for making hand warmers. A great and simple gift idea, suitable for a man or a woman. This is what I came up with:


Quest'anno volevo regalare qualcosa fatto da me ai miei colleghi per Natale ed ho trovato degli interessanti tutorial nel mondo blog per creare degli scaldamani. Un'idea carina e semplice, adatta sia ad un uomo che ad una donna. Questo è quello che ho creato:

I chose a different fabric for each colleague, something that reminded me of that particular person or that has to do with his/her job...

Ho scelto una stoffa diversa per ogni collega, per qualcosa che mi ricordava quella particolare persona oppure connessa al suo tipo di lavoro...

For my colleague who's responsible for road maintenance:

Per il collega che è responsabile della manutenzione delle strade:

For my colleague who has to stamp a lot of documents:

Per la mia collega che deve timbrare tanti documenti:

For my Boss who always has to write a lot of e-mails:

Per il mio Capo che deve scrivere tante mail:

For my colleague who's always helping others:

Per il mio collega che aiuta sempre gli altri:

For my colleague who likes crosswords:

Per la mia collega a cui piacciono i cruciverba:

For my colleague who's always very elegant:

Per la mia collega che è sempre molto elegante:

For my colleague who... wears glasses!

Per il mio collega che... porta gli occhiali!

There are some great tutorials in Blogland, with different sized hand warmers and with different contents. Mine have uncooked rice inside and were made using a 5" charm square cut in half, making two hand warmers each 2.16" in size. They're smaller than usual but I thought it was handy using a charm square and would avoid you carrying around a heavy bag of rice in your pockets when they cool down!

These fantastic fabrics are all from Leona's (@ Leona's Quilting Adventure) TEXT Me a Charm Swap, dedicated to swapping charm squares of Text fabric and Low Volume fabrics. Through this swap I received a packet of two sets of 56 charms. I must say I was really impressed, they're were only two doubles in all these charms even though not everybody posted photos of what they were sending. I would never have had the possibility of collecting charms of so many different fabrics.

Ci sono dei fantastici tutorial nel mondo Blog per creare scaldamani di varie misure, con contenuti diversi. I miei contengono riso crudo e sono stati creati usando dei quadrati "charm" di 12.7cm, tagliati a metà, per creare due scaldamani di 5.5cm. Sono più piccoli del solito ma ho pensato che fosse una buona idea usare i quadrati "charm" per evitare anche di portare in giro un sacchetto pesante di riso in tasca quando si raffreddono!

Queste stupende stoffe sono tutte dallo scambio TEXT Me a Charm Swap organizzato da Leona's (@ Leona's Quilting Adventure). Grazie a questo scambio ho ricevuto un pacchetto contenente due gruppi di 56 quadrati "charm". Sono stata molto colpita quando li ho ricevuti, c'erano solamente due doppioni nonostante non tutti avessero pubblicato le foto di quello che avrebbero spedito. Non avrei mai avuto la possibilità di collezionare quadrati "charm" di così tante stoffe diverse.

Here are some interesting tutorials in Blogland you can use for making hand warmers:

Ecco dei tutorial interessanti nel mondo Blog da usare per creare scaldamani:

Winter Warmers from A Spoonful of Sugar:

Homemade Hand Warmers from V and CO. (the tutorial I used): 

DIY Hand Warmers by Armommy: