Each October I have a Saturday morning full of panic as I scour blogs and sites for something I can make for everyone in my family for Christmas. It has to be something I can do without too much trouble and has some usefulness to at least the women in the family.
I don't consider myself crafty, though I have recently realized I am in denial. That I am much craftier than I would have ever thought possible - let that be inspiring to you. If I can do it, you can too.
This year I made fancy chip clips. I bought 200 basic wooden clothes pins for under $5 from Target. I searched for oversized clips but wasn't able to find them in the short amount of time I had. I had not originally planned to paint the clips, only to add decorative paper. But painting them added a lot. I took the first 10 apart, painted them and then tried to reattach the metal spring, this proved very difficult and scraped the paint. So I ended up clipping the pin to a double stack of cardboard to open the mouth a bit and painted what I could get to.
Next I mod podged the paper strips (I precut them to fit) to the clip and added a layer over the top. Once both sides had pretty paper I sprayed them with a sealer spray. I ended up making about 160 of them in 8 or so different paper designs. I made cards with each person's name on it and clipped their clips to all the edges. One of my future projects is to make a word out of wire and let that serve as the home for all my clips. We'll see.
It was fun to do and they have a ton of uses. I made a batch of them with holiday paper to hang up holiday cards. You could glue on magnets and use it on the fridge. One of my sisters just liked them for decoration and clipped them to her candle centerpiece.
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