Christmas gifts

This year for christmas neighbor gifts 

we made these...

Corn pillows.

You can find instructions here...

Make it do: Corn pillow bed warmer

They are great little gifts.

Something you could make and keep

on hand for when you might 

suddenly need a

little something for 

a neighbor or friend.

They cost me $2.50 each.

Only problem...

I didn't make enough.

Last year we collected cans

as our gift to neighbors.

I know this isn't a new idea.

In fact the more we talked

to people, the more stories

we heard about others who

had done it before.

I was chatting with 

some of the ladies

from the "hood"

and they said that in

their former neighborhood

they got together for

a potluck of treats.

You're ticket in was to bring cans to be

donated to the food bank

& a treat to share.

And the whole neighborhood

jointly decided that this would

be their gift to each other.

I think that is brilliant!

I'm going to try for it next year.

Here is the poem we used last year...

(Be forgiving... we are not poetic folk)

I think that means a lot more

than a bag of corn.

Tag on warmer made with house of three brushes