What I Made this Week: 6/29/24

Well, here we go ... this is my 25th of the month, holiday prep post!

On or around the 25th of each month, I try to do something towards upcoming holiday preps.  This week I focused on getting started with holiday gifts for my grands and this is how it started ...

These are inexpensive (4 x 6) small photo albums.  

I removed the inside front and back coverings that came in each and replaced them with some Christmas themed scrapbooking paper that I had on hand.  Some really pretty heavy Christmas wrapping paper would also work.  Next, I cut out a piece of cereal box cardboard to the correct size and slipped it in behind the scrapbooking paper for the front and back.  This gave the front and back covers some structure and stiffness.

I also put a piece of coordinating scrapbooking paper on the inside front and back pockets.

My plan is to use these little albums to create a 12-days of Christmas type gift for each of my grands.

 I have several to do and am going to try to complete one 'day' per week in each of them.  I'll do my best to share each finished 'day' as I go along.

In addition to the holiday 'creating' I did, I stitched up another pillowcase for Ryan's Case for Smiles ...

This is number 6 of the 20 I want to do by the Labor Day holiday.

 That's it for this week.  

Please share what you stitched up or created this week, I would love to hear about what you're working on!    

Until next time ...

patsi @ Grandma's Got a Sewing Machine

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