Are you frustrated and stressed about the Christmas Holidays?
Frustrated because you don’t know what gifts to give or what decorations you need?
You need gifts for family, friends, school functions, co-workers or all of the above and more.
Perhaps you need more ornaments for your Christmas tree to be special when family and friends visit this year.
Stressed because you don’t have enough time or money for the holiday season?
You spend time working and supporting your family – you don’t have time to shop and find gifts for all those on your list.
You spend the money necessary for food and your home – you don’t have much left over to spend on gifts.
Introducing!
>>New in 2008 <
>> Still available in 2009! <<
Fun & Easy Christmas Ornaments 2008
An e-book of simple and easy-to-make Christmas ornaments.
They are beautiful for your home or as gifts.
Most important, they come from your heart.
<<<< Christmas is the spirit of giving from the heart. >>>>
Give them to yourself and your family as decorations for your home to show how much you care.
Give them to relatives, friends, co-workers and others on your list as evidence of how important they are to you.
You don’t have to be Frustrated and Stressed this Christmas.
Fun & Easy Christmas Ornaments 2008 has eight different ornament patterns with quick and easy step-by-step instructions using three types of materials.
You can make a variety of each ornament to fill the spaces on your Christmas tree or to decorate your home. You can make beautiful ornaments to give as gifts – one or two to acquaintances or as whole sets to family and close friends.
The materials are inexpensive, and the steps are easy whether you make the “sew” (center) or “no-sew” (left and right) versions. Using a few embellishments, the choices are endless.
Fun & Easy Christmas Ornaments 2008 e-book has over 250 step-by-step pictures with written instructions. The pages show and tell you how to make each of the ornaments.
The e-book’s twelve chapters contain:
>>The Introduction includes the ornaments’ background, how to use the book, plus ideas for making, using and giving the ornaments.
>>The next chapter, Materials, describes and shows pictures of the main materials such as soft felt for sewing and stuffing, embellishments, craft foam, stiff glitter felt.
>>The third chapter, Basics for Sewing Ornaments, provides descriptions and pictures for all the simple sewing steps you need including how to thread the needle, knot thread, and sew - blanket stitch, small areas and small stitches, larger areas and large stitches, curves, outside corner, inside angle, closing knot, hiding end, hanger loop, French knots, whiskers, beads, nose.
>>Next, there are eight chapters, one each for a Snowman, Dove, Mouse, Stocking, Teddy Bear, Gingerbread, Holly, and Candy Cane. Each chapter contains a materials list with pictures along with step-by-step descriptions and pictures showing how to make the stuffed felt, craft foam and glitter felt ornaments.
>>The last chapter contains the Patterns. The patterns are sized for printing on 8.5 x 11 inch paper. But, they can easily be reduced or enlarged if you want to do different sizes.
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Price and Ordering
The Fun and Easy Christmas Ornaments 2008 e-book is twelve chapters with 89 pages including over 250 color pictures and written instructions for eight fun and easy-to-make ornaments. The >>NEW<< low, one-time charge for the e-book is $12.00.
After you purchase the e-book, you will be directed to a web site where you can immediately download your copy of the e-book file.
The Fun and Easy Christmas Ornaments 2008 e-book file is just under 2 Megabytes in size. Depending on your computer and the speed of your internet connection, the download time can take a few seconds or several minutes.
Plus, you will receive a BONUS of a Fun and Easy Cat Ornament e-booklet to download. It also has pictures (30) and written descriptions of how to make the cat ornament out of the three craft materials. It is a small file (<400k) and should download quickly.
Click here to make a secure purchase via ClickBank
ClickBank offers PayPal or these credit card options:
The e-book file is in PDF format and requires Adobe Reader to view. If you do not already have a copy of Adobe Reader, you can obtain a FREE downloadable copy of the software by clicking here => http://get.adobe.com/reader/
Any questions, please email: support@funezcrafts.com
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Fun and Easy Christmas Ornaments 2008 Sample Pages
Our Fun and Easy Christmas Ornaments e-book for 2008 includes detailed pictures and how-to steps to make eight beautiful and unique holiday ornaments using simple and inexpensive materials.
This first sample page can be found in the chapter describing the types of tools and materials used in making the ornaments.
These two pages come from the chapter detailing the stitches used in making the sewn versions of the ornaments.
These pictures and how-to steps show a small example of how the chapter walks you through the blanket stitch from how to begin the stitching, how to do stitches around corners or in tight curves, when to stop to fill the ornament and how to finish the stitching.
The how-to stitch section also contains step-by-step instructions for adding embellishments such as french knots or beads for eyes and threads for whiskers.
The book also contains instructions for using craft foam and glitter felt for the ornaments.
At the beginning of each ornament chapter, a picture shows the finished ornaments in the three types of materials. Next, the sewn ornament instructions begin with the list of materials and tools along with a picture.
Here, the Candy Cane chapter begins.
As you continue within the ornament chapters, detailed pictures show the steps for the ornaments.
In total, 89 pages provide detailed instructions including written descriptions and explanatory pictures. The final chapter includes the patterns for these unique and beautiful ornaments.
Picture these holiday challenges…
>> Steven, Samantha and their three children (Anthony – 11, David – 9 and Marci – 7) worry about the expense of Christmas. Even cutting their gift budget for friends, work and relatives, the total is $1500. They don’t have that much for gifts this year. But, they still want to give gifts to everyone on their list.
>> Sally is on her own now in an apartment a long way from her childhood home. She needs ornaments to decorate her tree and apartment. She wants beautiful and simple gifts for her friends at the office and her neighbors in her building. Just starting out, Sally doesn’t have a lot to spend.
>> Ted and Jodi have been married two years and had their first baby in early February. They want a memorable holiday season with heartfelt decorations and gifts for their new family’s first Christmas together this year.
>> John and Teri are in charge of the church bazaar this fall. They know Christmas decorations and gifts sell easily – especially simple and beautiful crafts. They want easy-to-make and inexpensive ornaments that can be used as decorations or given as beautiful gifts.
>> Nancy is a retired grandmother with seven grandchildren. Plus, she is the honorary grandmother for the kids in her neighborhood. She wants a Christmas activity to do with all of her grandkids that will give their parents time for holiday chores. Plus, she wants the kids to realize Christmas should be about giving from the heart not just gifts where price seems to be the most important part.
>> Sandy is a teacher and a crafter. She attends and displays her crafts at weekend craft shows in nearby towns during the autumn months. She looks for new crafts to make quickly that she can add to her products for her shows. She also looks for simple crafts to use with her classes at school to teach creativity and accomplishment.
>> Johnnie works in an office where teamwork needs improvement. Her management challenged Johnnie to develop a team building exercise for early fourth quarter. But, the budget has to be small. Johnnie decides a team exercise making Christmas ornaments would get everyone involved. Afterwards, they can give their ornaments to a local shelter whose Christmas tree and ornaments burned in a small fire last year.
>> Zelda manages the community center where a group of elderly persons spends their days. She wants an activity for Christmas where all of them can contribute their efforts, and all of them can have fun. Plus, she wants an activity that will help them with their Christmas gift list as many are on a limited budget.
>> Kurt and Stefanie have lots of friends from college who get together at the holidays. This year, the party is scheduled at their home. For the last few years, their friends’ parties ranged from wine tasting or cooking classes to hayrides in the country or nine ball pool tournaments. Kurt and Stefanie want a simple and fun activity for their Christmas party focused on the spirit of giving. They discuss doing Christmas crafts their friends can create then keep for their homes or give away as Christmas gifts.
>> Jim, Pete, Laura and Hannah have been friends since early childhood. After college, they found themselves living in the same town. They pooled their resources and bought a beautiful, big and old, but rundown, house. In their spare time they work together to bring the house back to an updated version of its old glory. They plan a Christmas party to show off their finished work in the main living area to family and friends. They want a Christmas tree sitting in the corner that touches their 12 foot ceiling and is filled with handmade ornaments. With the expense of re-doing an old house, they don’t have much to spend on the tree and decorations. They want inexpensive but beautiful and quick-to-make Christmas ornaments.
Can you identify with any of them? Do you have similar challenges this Christmas?
Just imagine…
If the people in each of these situations had the Fun & Easy Christmas Ornaments 2008 e-book along with the inexpensive materials, they could quickly and easily create beautiful ornaments and gifts. Plus, they could enjoy fun activities with family and friends – children and adults alike.
Maybe your challenge is you want this season to be about the spirit of the holiday…
Are you tired of spending a lot of time and money on gifts that frequently have to be returned or are just set aside after the holidays never to be used again?
Are you wishing for a simpler time when gifts were appreciated because they came from the heart not because they were expensive?
Are you looking for ornaments and gifts that are beautiful and important – important because you made them with love?
The Fun & Easy Christmas Ornaments 2008 e-book will help you make beautiful and lasting ornaments and important gifts from your heart.
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Price and Ordering
The Fun and Easy Christmas Ornaments 2008 e-book is twelve chapters with 89 pages including over 250 color pictures and written instructions for eight fun and easy-to-make ornaments. The >>NEW<< low, one-time charge for the e-book is $12.00.
After you purchase the e-book, you will be directed to a web site where you can immediately download your copy of the e-book file.
The Fun and Easy Christmas Ornaments 2008 e-book file is just under 2 Megabytes in size. Depending on your computer and the speed of your internet connection, the download time can take a few seconds or several minutes.
Plus, you will receive a BONUS of a Fun and Easy Cat Ornament e-booklet to download. It also has pictures (30) and written descriptions of how to make the cat ornament out of the three craft materials. It is a small file (<400k) and should download quickly.
Click here to make a secure purchase via ClickBank
ClickBank offers PayPal or these credit card options:
The e-book file is in PDF format and requires Adobe Reader to view. If you do not already have a copy of Adobe Reader, you can obtain a FREE downloadable copy of the software by clicking here => http://get.adobe.com/reader/
Any questions, please email: support@funezcrafts.com
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Let’s visit the story of Steven, Samantha, Anthony, David and Marci.
Sam – short for Samantha - works near their home in an office with several co-workers. Her husband, Steven, drives a big truck with deliveries across country. Frequently, trips keep him away from home for several days at a time. Their three children, Tony, Dave and Marci, actively participate in school and afternoon activities including sports.
Sam and Steven call each other often while he is on the road. They make sure their children know what is going on in their parents’ lives while Sam and Steven keep in touch with what is important to their children.
On a recent call, Sam commented, “We still have some time before Christmas, but I’m worried about the expense of the Christmas holidays. With our big expenses after the storm damage, money is tight this year. We pay our bills each month, but we can’t afford to spend as much as we did last year. We set aside the money for the children’s Christmas, but we also need all those gifts for other people too - co-workers, bosses, friends, neighbors, relatives, school and our church’s holiday party.”
Steven replied, “We have to share with the children that money is tight. They need to know the situation and be involved in the process of choosing who will receive gifts this year. I’ll be home Tuesday afternoon. Let’s get the family together to make gift lists and work on a budget.”
Tuesday evening, Sam, Steven and the kids sit around the kitchen table for a family meeting. Steven says, “Christmas will be here soon. We enjoy giving, but we don’t have a lot of money for gifts. Last year we had a long list of people. As a family, we need to decide who we include this year and determine what we will spend.”
Sam suggests, “Let’s look at work and school first. Then we can decide on the neighborhood and friends. We can’t forget the church dinner or all of our relatives.
“I’ll go first. I count 10 people who will expect a gift during our office Christmas party. The good news is there is a dollar limit this year, $20 on each gift. But that equals $200.”
For Steven’s work, his two main bosses expect and appreciate gifts from the drivers. “The main office is small, but these guys do a lot for all of the drivers. They were great to work with me and schedule around my time to get the house repaired after the storm damage. Most drivers contribute $50 to each of those gifts. That’s $100.”
For all of their activities, the children want to recognize their teachers and coaches with small gifts. Marci, Dave and Tony count twelve people who helped them with their classes and sports. At $10 each, that’s another $120.
In the neighborhood, several people helped with the children when Steven was away and Sam’s work kept her late at the office. Plus, the family has other friends outside their neighborhood.
Sam, Steven and the children want to recognize each of their friends with gifts as special as their friendships are. They decide on a $10 limit for children’s gifts and $15 for adult gifts. They whittled those lists down to ten children and ten adults. That’s $250.
Their church holds a Christmas holiday dinner where each person brings one gift to be given to the less fortunate who won’t have a Christmas without the church’s help. Each adult brings one adult gift and each child brings one child’s gift. The dollar goal for each gift is $20. For the five of them, that’s another $100.
Family, nearby and away, must be remembered with a small gift each. Counting Sam and Steven’s extended families, 30 different gifts were packaged and sent last year. Family is important. To give the same number this year at $15 each, that’s $450. Plus, half of the gifts require shipping for another $150.
Thinking about others – people who have helped through the year such as mail carriers, hair stylists, mechanics, they add another $100 to their budget. They also include $30 for the cost of wrapping supplies such as paper, ribbon and tape.
Going through their lists one more time, they determine they’ve cut as much as they can. Adding the column of numbers, they look at each other in disbelief. Amazing, they cut their list and kept their cost per gift smaller than last year, but the overall cost of their trimmed budget still reached $1500. The family doesn’t have that much left over after they pay their day-to-day expenses.
Steven says, “Christmas is still far enough away that we can get creative. Problems are not new to this family - this is just a new opportunity to be resourceful. We will do what we always do for big problems impacting all of us. We will research it, think about it, discuss it and develop a plan of action that is best for all – us and the special people on our gift list. But for now, our challenge is to research ways to make this Christmas special but at a much smaller cost.
“I drive a long haul delivery over the next three days but will be home on the weekend. Let’s get together Saturday morning after breakfast, say at 9:00 . Each of us gets to present our ideas and our solutions – that includes everyone. Tony, Dave and Marci, you all have an important job to help find a solution for Christmas this year.”
In their own ways, everyone worked on their ideas. They talk with friends about Christmas ideas. The kids meet after school in the library to look at Christmas idea books. In the evening, they search the internet for options.
Sam and Steven keep in touch. On one call Sam tells Steven, “I’m worried that our children are focused on the commercial side of the Christmas holiday. I want them to understand the spirit of giving – of gifts from the heart not just gifts with a price tag, where people think the bigger the price the more valuable the gift. Many times, the more expensive gifts are not really valuable at all, just more expensive.”
Steven responds, “Remember when we were kids, and we visited our grandparents at Christmas. Mine always talked about their childhood Christmases and the fun they had making gifts for their family and friends. They wrapped them in brown paper tied with string. They knotted holly leaves with berries in the bows.”
“I do remember. My grandparents lived in a very small town. They told me about the homemade decorations they had on their tree, their mantles, their dining room. Every year, people in the town would have parties before the holiday to make decorations. Each family brought materials for their specialty with enough to share with everyone when complete. Both adults and children would make the ornaments and string popcorn and cranberries. They would make garlands of pine boughs to drape on the mantles, the chair rails and the stair banisters. They put holly leaves and berries to accent the garland.
“They told me how everyone had so much fun making and sharing the decorations. In fact, when they got older, it was at a neighbor’s Christmas party where my granddad asked my grandmom for their first date. They were in the middle of making mistletoe balls. They even joke that their parents asked them to do the mistletoe balls on purpose so granddad would finally ask grandmom for a date.
“Oh, wouldn’t it be wonderful if people today could enjoy the camaraderie and generosity of spirit like our grandparents enjoyed during the holidays? I’m sure people back then had some of the same challenges we do of supporting a family. But, they knew how to get the most out of the spirit of the holidays.”
After listening, Steven is quiet for a moment, but then says, “You may be on to something, Sam. Let’s think about this, honey. Maybe we can recreate something similar for our family this year. I love you, and good night. I’ll be home late tomorrow night.”
Sam responds, “I love you, too. Be careful.”
It’s Saturday morning and a beautiful fall day. The kitchen aroma of homemade blueberry pancakes and warm maple syrup lingers from their traditional Saturday breakfast. The kitchen cleaned, everyone is ready with their ideas.
With the family sitting around the table, Sam looks at the children, “Tony, how about you going first. What are your Christmas ideas?”
“Dave and Marci were a little scared at first. So, we got together for our research.”
Steven, winking at Marci, says, “We didn’t mean to scare you. There’s nothing to be scared about or ashamed about. We’ve just had some setbacks this year that mean there’s not as much money available for Christmas. It’s great you all worked together. Let’s hear what you came up with.”
“We talked to some of our teachers. We told them our family was starting to think about Christmas and asked them what plans they had. Several just laughed and said, ‘No plans.’ Some commented that they wanted to do something fun and simple this year.”
Dave chimes in, “Miss Woods, our art teacher, mentioned she was looking for some Christmas ornaments for us to make in class this year.”
Marci bounces in her seat. Tony looks at her and says, “Okay, okay, you can tell them now!”
With a big grin from ear to ear, Marci tells Steven and Sam, “I found a web site with an e-book called Fun & Easy Christmas Ornaments 2008. It says the e-book shows the materials and the steps for how to make eight different ornaments. We could have fun!”
Sam looks at the kids then at Steven in disbelief. Steven says, “Kids, you are great! Thursday evening, your mom and I reminded each other of the Christmases our grandparents had when they made Christmas ornaments and homemade gifts. They told us of the fun everyone had. We thought it would be wonderful if people did that again. But, we hadn’t gotten as far with planning as you guys did. Marci, tell us more.”
Tony steps in, “We couldn’t order the e-book without your approval. But, we know the main materials we need. We’ve looked at craft sites for prices. We can make a lot of ornaments for not a lot of money. We need to decide which ornaments to make and how many of each. Then we can plan the shopping for the materials,”
Sam says, “You’ve done wonderful research. Now we’ve got the start of a plan. Let’s go online to look at the book information. We can order it, download it then make a list of materials.”
A couple of Saturdays later and after another blueberry pancake breakfast, the family sets up their kitchen and dining room with materials to start their holiday project of handmade Christmas ornaments as gifts from a caring family.
Tammy, Sam’s sister, and her husband, Harold, wanted to be a part of the holiday project too. They will be over soon with their two children, Theo – 10 and Bethany – 5. Harold’s elderly mother lives with them and wants to contribute too.
Having told Tammy the types of supplies needed, Sam looks out the window to see them getting several bags out of their car. Sam tells Tony and Dave to help bring in the supplies while Marci runs out to see Bethany .
After reading through the Fun & Easy Christmas Ornaments 2008 e-book and determining how much they could spend, the family decided they wanted to make a variety of all the ornaments – soft felt, craft foam and glitter felt. The supplies are inexpensive, and they liked the simplicity of the glitter felt, the painting fun with the craft foam and the beauty and durability of the stuffed felt.
Working together, they set up a cutting area, a painting area, a sewing area, a stuffing area, an embellishment area, and a packaging area for the completed ornaments. They decided where everyone would start. Later, they could share in the other areas if they wanted.
Steven and Harold chose to be cutters and to help the children with holes on the glitter felt and with the wire hanging loops on the craft foam. After some good-hearted shoving and taunting, Tony, Dave and Theo selected and tied the ribbons for the glitter felt ornaments. They raced each other to see who could get each ornament done first. Meanwhile, Marci and Bethany were adding faces and paint to their craft foam ornaments.
With ten people, by lunch they had several ornaments finished and a lot of shapes cut and in progress. The glitter felt and craft ornaments were quick to make. But, Sam, Tammy and Harold’s mom quickly completed the stuffed felt ornaments too, especially with the children helping to stuff.
After a brief lunch break, everyone went back to work, trying to see how much they could get done in a day. Counting both families and their long gift lists, they had a lot of ornaments to make. They expected they would need more time. But, by the end of the afternoon, they were very pleased with their efforts. They had many completed packages ready to give. A few more hours and they would finish their gift lists.
Time passes and Christmas is a few days away. Sam’s office has their afternoon Christmas party with refreshments and to share gifts. Sam smiled as she gave each person their gift. She had chosen to give each person two of the stuffed felt ornaments. As they opened their gifts, Sam heard exclamations of, “How lovely.” “These are beautiful, Sam.” “Just what my tree needed this year.”
There’s always a grump, a Grinch or a Scrooge in every office. Sam’s office was no different. Their Negative Nick was known for his rude comments in addition to being a grumpy guy. With a sneer, Nick called out, “Couldn’t you afford to buy gifts this year, Sam?”
Everyone else was in good spirits and having fun. They shouted at Nick, “Just be quiet Nick. If you don’t like Sam’s gift, give it to me. They are beautiful, and I’ll treasure them.”
In the meantime, Sam wasn’t worried. She knew Nick used rude comments to compensate for his own insecurity and unhappiness. She had such a wonderful time with her family making the gifts and everyone else was pleased with their ornaments. Feeling sorry for him, she brushed off Nick’s comments as meaningless.
At the transport office, Steven dropped off his gifts for his two bosses before he left on his last trip. In each package, there was a set of all eight ornaments using different colors and trim for each set. When Steven came back, the bosses met him when he stopped in the office. Both of them shook Steven’s hand and gave him a hearty slap on the back.
Then, they pointed him to the tree in the corner. They had removed old ornaments so they could display their new ornaments for everyone to see. They were proud and appreciated that Steven and his family had given them handmade ornaments. They told Steven, “These ornaments will be right here next year too.”
Neighbors and friends heard about the holiday project early and eagerly waited for their packages. At school, the teachers and coaches smiled as they opened their packages and told Tony, Dave and Marci how much they appreciated their gifts.
For their church gifts, the family decided to buy inexpensive but useful items to include with the ornaments they had made. For the children’s gifts, they included either the gingerbread or teddy bear with some warm gloves. For the adults, they added several of the simple glitter felt ornaments with useful toiletry items.
Their relatives had also heard about the ornaments. Some even put in their wish list of which ones they wanted. The ornaments were a hit with everyone.
For next year their extended families requested that all of the family gets involved. They talk about having family parties rotating between homes each weekend until the ornaments are complete. They also talk about doing cranberries and popcorn, pine garlands and mistletoe balls reminiscent of their grandparents’ parties.
In their story, Sam and Steven go from being worried about how to afford all the gifts they wanted to give to recreating a simpler Christmas holiday with togetherness and the spirit of giving from the heart.
Would you like to do the same this year? You can – easily – with your own copy of the Fun and Easy Christmas Ornaments 2008 e-book.
You don't need weeks - order your copy today and get started on the beautiful ornaments and gifts from your heart to those on your gift list this year.
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Price and Ordering
The Fun and Easy Christmas Ornaments 2008 e-book is twelve chapters with 89 pages including over 250 color pictures and written instructions for eight fun and easy-to-make ornaments. The >>NEW<< low, one-time charge for the e-book is $12.00.
After you purchase the e-book, you will be directed to a web site where you can immediately download your copy of the e-book file.
The Fun and Easy Christmas Ornaments 2008 e-book file is just under 2 Megabytes in size. Depending on your computer and the speed of your internet connection, the download time can take a few seconds or several minutes.
Plus, you will receive a BONUS of a Fun and Easy Cat Ornament e-booklet to download. It also has pictures (30) and written descriptions of how to make the cat ornament out of the three craft materials. It is a small file (<400k) and should download quickly.
Click here to make a secure purchase via ClickBank
ClickBank offers PayPal or these credit card options:
The e-book file is in PDF format and requires Adobe Reader to view. If you do not already have a copy of Adobe Reader, you can obtain a FREE downloadable copy of the software by clicking here => http://get.adobe.com/reader/
Any questions, please email: support@funezcrafts.com
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