This year, I decided that I was fed up with waste, with packaging, with thoughtless, mass produced gifts, with consumerism and mindless spending. I wanted to teach my children the joy that comes from giving, from creating, from thinking about your loved ones and hand-crafting something just for them. So, I took the handmade pledge. You can find out more at www.buyhandmade.org. The children reluctantly agreed and we set about making handmade Christmas cards sent in handmade recyclopes (recycled calendars and magazines). We followed that up with handmade gifts....canned jellies and salsas and freshly baked breads, cookies, candies, carefully sewn cloth napkins and placemats, colored pencil rollups, knitted wonders, and much more. For some of our loved ones, we decided to support other handmade crafters...why?
Because. Handmade=Love! As simple as that!
Will you take the handmade pledge this year?
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