Make Your Own Holiday Gift Baskets

If you have several people you need holiday gifts for this year and more time than money on your hands, consider making some homemade gourmet or spa gift baskets. With proper planning, these impressive and thoughtful gifts, can be made at relatively low cost .

To effectively assemble a number of baskets at minimum cost, just takes [...]

3 Kid’s Crafts for Holiday Decorating.

Don’t let Christmas money problems ruin your good time. Fun, inexpensive craft projects, not only make for some great memories to share with your children, but can also supply you with some very special holiday decorations.

1. Simple pieces of construction paper, or even printer paper can readily be made into personalized placemats, or place [...]

Poor Santa’s Gourmet Banana Jam Recipe

Banana Jam is a delicious and unusual gourmet Christmas gift, you can easily make yourself. Not only is this kind of jam not available commercially, but bananas are one of the few fruits which are still inexpensive in the colder months. Don’t be daunted by the canning process, it is really quite easy, especially for [...]

Old Fashioned Salt Dough: A Fun and Inexpensive Christmas Craft

Here is a fun Christmas craft, which is low cost and durable. Old fashioned salt dough makes for a great kid’s craft, and you get some very inexpensive holiday decorations, to boot. Kid’s can even make gifts for the family. Due to the high salt content, once dry the dough is hard and resistant to [...]

Making Bath Salts for Holiday Gifts

Bath salts make can a wonderful inexpensive holiday gift, especially when you make then yourself.  This craft is easy enough to do with your kids this holiday season. This basic recipe can readily be adjusted to make orange, rose, peppermint or other scented bath salts, as well. Poor Santa gets tired after a long day in the [...]