November 10 ~ Gifts for Travelers
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Fabric Luggage Tags Help luggage stand out in a crowd with these Fabric Luggage Tags from Cindy at Skip To My Lou. |
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Little Letter Needle Book This Little Letter Needle Book from Kelly at {Make} helps travelers keep essentials handy on the road. |
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Basic Messenger Bag Larissa’s Basic Messenger Bag at Mmmcrafts will be a hit with all ages! |
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Travel Organizer Laural from Thimble designed this handy Travel Organizer to keep important documents in one place on a trip. |
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Flat Iron Travel Pouch Do you know someone who cannot be separated from their flat iron?! Make them this Flat Iron Travel Pouch from Char at Crap I’ve Made. |
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Art Bag Give young artists on the go a treat with this Art Bag from Christine at From An Igloo. |
You might also enjoy these related tutorials from the SMS archives: Go!, More Gifts for Travelers, Sushi-Roll Changing Pad with Diaper & Wipes Pouch
Here are just a handful of fabrics we love for some of these projects. Click on the fabric images to visit the Sew,Mama,Sew! shop:
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Custom Leather Luggage Tags from Of the Fountain Surprise a traveler with a handsome set of Custom Leather Luggage Tags. Visit Of the Fountain for these hand stamped and beautifully dyed tags. |
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Handmade Leather Journals from Janette Maher Compact & durable, these Handmade Leather Journals are designed specifically for travel. Janette Maher sells these in a variety of sizes and colors as well as other attractive styles. |
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Homemade Caramel from Giver’s Log Amber shares her fail-proof recipe for Caramel that will spoil you and any hard-to-please person on your list. On her blog, Giver’s Log, Amber writes, “Once you go homemade, you never go back.” |
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Happy Bookplate Keep track of books while traveling with this sweet Happy Bookplate from Helen at Orange You Lucky. Print and prepare a set as a companion gift with a good book! |
Win It
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Comment in today’s post for a chance to win one of these books! Visit our prize lists to see some of the other great giveaways this month.
By Meg Mateo Ilasco & Joy Deangdeelert Cho
(Chronicle Books, $16.95, ISBN: 9780811871617)
From the Publisher:
As the hipster classic Craft, Inc. did for crafters, this book will teach all types of creatives—illustrators, photographers, graphic designers, animators, and more—how to build a successful business doing what they love. Freelancing pros Meg Mateo Ilasco and Joy Deangdeelert Cho explain everything from creating a standout portfolio to navigating the legal issues of starting a business. Accessible, spunky, and packed with practical advice, Creative, Inc. is an essential for anyone ready to strike out on their own.
Not Your Mama’s Stitching: The Cool and Creative Way to Stitch It To ‘Em
By Kate Shoup
(Wiley, $14.99, ISBN: 978-0-470-09516-4)
From the Publisher:
Forget the fair young maiden painstakingly embroidering pillowcases for her hope chest. Picture a liberated lass (that would be you) creating chic fashions and accessories while sipping a glass of whatever and saving the planet.Not Your Mama’s Stitching lets you choose from more than twenty projects to make or embellish home decor items, garments, accessories, gifts, and more. It covers:
- The tools and materials that no stitcher should be without
- Basic stitching skills such as starting a thread, tying off, and finishing your piece
- A myriad of embroidery, cross stitch, and needlepoint stitches
- Projects ranging from a tattooed tank top to cheeky stitched sayings and from a Gucci-inspired wallet to a drinks recipe box
- Variations and ideas for customizing every project
Make everyday items one-of-a-kind, or whip up your own creations from scratch. With a savvy, sassy attitude and fun, funky projects, Not Your Mama’s Stitching will have you in stitches in no time.
Seams to Me: 24 New Reasons to Love Sewing
By Anna Maria Horner
(Wiley, $24.99, ISBN: 978-0-470-25926-9)
From the Publisher:
Anna Maria Horner’s signature style combines the techniques of a seasoned sewer with the vision of an artist. InSeams to Me: 24 New Reasons to Love Sewing, she walks you through the fundamentals, offering practical advice on everything from fabric selection to color choices to choosing and buying a sewing machine. Simple step-by-step instructions show you how to turn her designs into fanciful creations:
- Sideways Squares Skirt
- Prairie Blouse
- Full Contact Cooking Apron
- PlayingAlong Quilt
- Doggie Dreams Bed
Vivid full-color photographs and designs will invite you into the creative process. Whether you’re a beginner or a veteran, the twenty-four projects in this beautiful book will transform your home and wardrobe into a collection of unique treasures.
By Marlene Hurley Marshall
(Storey Publishing, $24.95, ISBN: 978-1-60342-552-0)
From the Publisher:
From a lakeside cabin to a hilltop farmhouse, from an urban brownstone to a suburban ranch — any house can be beautified with decorative pieces crafted from found bits of the woodland landscape, such as pine cones, moss, bark, twigs, and river rocks. Artist and author Marlene Hurley Marshall shows you how to use responsibly collected materials to create stylish wreaths, frames, furniture, collages, potpourri, birdhouses, garden pots, and much more. Featuring luscious photography by Sabine Vollmer von Falken,Woodland Style gives you the inspiration and instruction you need to enjoy the peace and beauty of the woods and meadows in your own home.
The Green Grocery Bag Challenge is a project to encourage sewists to wrap their holiday gifts in reusable cloth grocery bags, thus reducing the amount of wrapping paper entering the waste stream while simultaneously getting multi-use bags into the hands of consumers. Please include Mother Earth in your holiday plans. Read more here and join us on The Green Grocery Bag Challenge Facebook page where we’ll be posting wrapping ideas, sewing patterns and tips for reducing waste this holiday season.
More Handmade Holiday Ideas (& don’t miss our Handmade Holidays photo pool!)… Gift ideas for:
9 ~ Preschool Kids
8 ~ Outdoor Adventurers
7 ~ Tweens
6 ~ Crafters
5 ~ Deck the Halls
4 ~ Moms & Grandmas
3 ~ Babies & Toddlers
2 ~ Girlfriends
1 ~ Imaginative Friends
We respect the copyright of all crafters. All links and photos from blogs on our Handmade Holidays posts are used with permission.
403 Responses to “November 10 ~ Gifts for Travelers”
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Great stuff to create Iam gonna be so busy!
I love that little needle book, very sweet!
More great ideas! And more great prizes!
Love the messenger bag, can never have enough bags after all! Oh & mmmmm, caramel!
I have family that could use some of these items, so on the list to make they go!
You know, as someone who used to travel a lot, I can tell you these ideas are great! Durable travel tags and anything that can help you organize your packing are wonderfully helpful in “keeping it together” when overseas, especially.
I’ve been after a messanger back tutorial for ages, Thanks!
Thanks again for all the great ideas!
Sweet ideas! Looking forward to making these projects for my special peeps!
What great gift ideas!
Lots of good ideas today!
leekat6 at verizon dot net
I am really enjoying your Handmade Holiday. Already found so much projects and inspiration that I would be crafting a whole year long
You are absolutely blowing me away with this series! How many more sup-topics can you find, all with such cool free gifts to make! I am so very impressed.
More great ideas! I love the idea of an art bag for young travellers – this is a gift for both parents and child.
I love the books you are doing as giveaways. Hope I get lucky!
Fun ideas today!
Lovely tutorials as usual—loving this year’s Handmade Holidays!!!
Thank you!!!
i got the “seams to me” book from the library once…and I would love to win it!!
I love to travel so some of these may become “self gifts”!
I love the travel organizer. So handy!
Sew, Mama, sew rocks!
Your gift ideas are very inspiring. The only problem is deciding who gets what.
Those caramels look delicious!
I may have to go out and get the ingredients for that caramel right now! (or maybe I”ll at least wait til it’s light outside)
I am in love with those handmade leather satchels!!! Amazing!
This is my favorite post yet! So many useful things! Thank you!
The Little Letter Needle Book and the Art Bag are great ideas. The tutorials are very nice.
i love that messenger bag…i think i’ve saved 4 tutorials form this post!
So many fantastic ideas! I know a few keen travellers so these will come in handy. And Anna Maria Horner’s book ‘Seams to me’ is singing to me ‘buy me, buy me, buy me’. Amazon, here I come
I love that messenger bag! I may have to make one for myself…
Love the messanger bag!
Wow! I bookmarked every project, I think. Come these coming and thank you.
This gift guide gets better and better every year! Thank you!
That art travel bag is just what my crayon/drawing happy daughter needs for the car. Guess what she’s getting from Mommy for Christmas? ;=)
Love the travel organizer. Thanks for sharing.
I have just discovered your blog and I love it! I am just now learning how to sew and I am anxious to try a few things you have here, and that you blogged a few days ago. Especially those cute mittens!
lovely ideas!!
Fantastic! Thanks!
OOH, I want that Creative Inc book!
Love the messenger bag! I can see all sorts of possibilities for this pattern.
I’m definitely trying that carmel recipe!
Anothet awesome post and another awesome giveaway.
More great ideas! Thanks!
Great ideas! Love the leather journals.
With lots of frequent travelers in the family, these are great ideas. Thanks!
Thank you! I have another new blog to follow,love love the messenger bag tutorial and everything on her blog.
Love the passport holders!
I’d love to try several of these ideas! Thanks!
I’m already digging through my stash to make some of the flat-iron cases for my girlfriends! Thanks again! I <3 Homemade Holidays!
The Creative Inc book looks really interesting and insightful!
Great ideas! Now that my siblings and I are grown my parents have started traveling quite a bit. Thanks for the wonderful tutes!
I think I need to make my kiddo the art bag for our holiday trip
The travel art bag is adorable, and I just loved exploring the From An Igloo blog. There is a great tutorial for making a fish game.
Such great and quick-to-make ideas!
The travel organizer is much prettier than the envelope I usually use!
Woah – homemade caramels!
I love Anna Maria Horner’s Seams to me book!
I really like the little letter needle book. I could make a bunch of those for my kids.
Loving the messenger bag! Where will I find the time to make all these things?!?!?!?
I love the caramel recipe. Thank you!
I love those needle books! So cute!
Love the travel organizer!
OK this time no beating about the bush, I would love love a copy of seams to me…
Ooh more awesome ideas! I love the messenger bag!
My kids are always asking me to make homemade caramels. Yum.
We travel a lot! So this roundup is perfect for me!
We just moved a whole lot further away form my Husband’s family, so we’re going to be doing a lot more traveling by air. I’m going to have to take a second look at all these great projects! Thanks!
These are great ideas for presents; my daughter is a world traveler and I think I’ll make her the little letter sewing kit!
Another day of wonderful projects!
I love these ideas!
Great ideas!
I love all these ideas!
Oh I love the From the Igloo blog!
Pick me!
ALL of these look great, and not just for travellers!
Goodness. Caramel is one of my favorites and I am still looking for sweets to make for friends and family in lieu of expensive gifts they won’t actually use.
Another day with great tutes!!! It must be so much fun finding all these talented people!
Thank you! These are some great ideas!
That little letter needle book is too cute!
I love these ideas. The messenger bag and sushi diaper changing roll are going on my list.
All of those projects look so handy and smart!
Beautiful! What lovely books!
I love the Art Bag! Such a great idea!!
That messenger bag would make a GREAT gift, thanks for sharing the tutorial!
ooh, I’ve been wanting to try my hand at homemade caramels. Thanks for the recipe!
I love traveling. I need to make these gifts for myself.
Great ideas, thanks! I’m really interested in the book Creative, Inc as well…anything to help with our creative businesses!
I’m loving this – so many good ideas.
I’m so excited about the homemade Carmel I can’t wait to make some.
the little letter needle book would be the perfect gift for one of my friends who is always on the go!
Wow! Awesome.
Oh yum, homemade caramel here I come!
I just love the are bag and I think my daughter would as well, thanks.
Now I’m looking for the post at morning, thanks, thanks, so much beautiful stuff.
Awesome tutorials…i also think that i want to make the homemade caramel. I would love to win Seams to me or Not your mamas stitching orrr Creative Inc. Not too picky!
The messenger bag looks great! I think the fabric tags would be a nice “scrap-buster” project. Thank you!
I LOVE how the first picture in my google reader had a CANADIAN passport in the travel documents keeper!
Thanks for the chance to win, I would cherish any one of those books! Thanks again for the great tutes!
Wish we could do this all year!
I love the messenger bag! Maybe I can make myself one next year sometime!
can’t wait to try the caramel recipe!
These are perfect ideas for a few people on my list!
More holiday happiness — thank you Sew Mama Sew!
LOVE the flat iron travel pouch! I will definitely be making several of these and passing them out to my friends!
Those leather tags are sooo beautiful!!
All of these look fantastic. The needle book is ridiculously cute and the art bag is just what we need in our house to store all the treasures created! Thank you for another day of inspiration.
great gift ideas! thanks so much!
Incredible ideas today! My sewing queue has filled up quickly, but those caramels look like they could get added to the list for this weekend!
Shopping in my pj’s.
Thank you for once again bringing all of this to us… I love these idea posts and tutorials.
The crafts looks good, but the caramels even better! I guess that shows where my head is right now. Hehe.
More great gift ideas!
My brothers both travel for work a ton, so I’m going to have to check these out – as well as the other websites!
cute stuff!
I love these handmade holidays posts! Great ideas…
I would love to have the Creative, Inc. book! Thanks for the giveaways.
That’s a great messenger bag for my sister!
Another day of great ideas. Thank you.
This is my favorite day of ideas so far. Thank you!
Love the travel organizer!
oooooh…might have to make some of these for myself!
cute ideas~
I have definitely tucked that caramel recipe away for future use…mmm.
I also love these posts…there are so many great ideas!
I would love to win the Seams to Me book…thanks for the opportunity!
Wow, you keep topping yourself with all the great tutorials! Where to start? – tough decision. Thank you!
I love the art bag — and I know the perfect recipient!
Great ideas!
Homemade caramel.. mmmmm…. sounds like a plan to me!
Some really great ideas!
Thank you
Gill
Love the art bag! Caramels- yum!
These are all great–I don’t know where to start! When you are on Kelly’s blog for the needle book check out her (Make) a bag sew along too!
I love those book plates, and the homemade caramels are making my mouth water.
I am not a big traveler but I love the messenger bag. Thanks for the tutorials!
Fun! Fun! and more fun!
LOVE the messenger bag. It’s beautiful!
So many fun ideas!
Looking forward to making some caramels to join my fudge for gifts.
Looks like homemade caramel is on the menu this weekend!
I love the flat iron case, my sister will be getting that for sure!
Thanks for another great roundup of ideas
Oh gosh, my holiday “to make” list is getting out of hand! Let the frantic holiday knitting/sewing begin… it’s kind of fun isn’t it?!
Yum! Caramel.
Love the messenger bag tutorial! This is great for my always-on-the-go sister-in-law.
Great Tutorials. Love them all…
Thanks again – Lover the Givers Log – Blog, I’m looking for a homemade gift for teachers and she has some wonderful ideas!
Everyone of these tutorials is genious! I’m bookmarking all of them!
LOVE the travel organizer. Maybe if I make myself one, an opportunity to use it will magically come up!
I just can’t resist homemade caramel! And that messenger bag sure looks pretty!
I love that little needle book — cuteness!
Great projects, as usual!
Love the art bag and the flat iron traveler….I see some sewing projects in the works for Christmas!
Oh those books are all so great!
great ideas…need to get busy and make some
Very cute tutorials today! And love the idea of yummy caramel!
such great ideas – those will be perfect for several people on my list!
I just found out that we are going to Greece next summer and the travel pouches would be a great Christmas present for the family. Thank you so much!!!!
Great tutorials! Love the art bag!
Those organizers are as beautiful as useful – I´ll need to make them!
Love the messenger bag. Cool technique!
love the messenger bag!
OMG, that messenger bag. First I make one for ME (selfish, aren’t I?), then for everyone else…lovely, thanks so much!
Fabulous tutorials again! My best friend is getting married this coming year and I think some honeymoon gifts are in order!
I am bookmarking the messenger bag tutorial for sure. My daughter’s been asking for one since some of her friends are getting those instead of backpacks! Who knew 1st graders were so worried about style??
I want to make all of these – great projects!
I love all of your amazing ideas! I can’t wait to have free time to dig into my to-do pile!
Those handmade leather journals are gorgeous. Now, something to add to MY Christmas list!
so many fantastic ideas! keep ‘em comin’!!!!
I love the messenger bag tutorial. Everyone could use one of those!
What lovely ideas in today’s post! I love the little letters especially.
love that messenger bag!
I love the travel organizer!
I need to get busy if I am going to make all these wonderful gifts you are sharing
I have that Little Letter Needle Book in my to-do list for ages! I have to sit and make it! It’s so gorgeous!
great traveling idea’s!!
I love the Basic Messenger Bag!
The little needle book is so cute.
Love these ideas!
What wonderful ideas. Every single one.
Flat iron cozy is perfect for my daughters!
i ADORE that messanger bag!!!!!!!!!!!
I may need to try my hand at the homemade caramel!
Great projects!! I love specially the Little Letter Needle Book
More great ideas!
Very nice messenger bag!
As always, lots of wonderful ideas, although today it’s the caramel that got me. I’m off to explore! Thank you.
I am totally in love with the messenger bag. I have contemplated making one before and with the help of this beauty of a pattern, I think I’ll finally get around to living my dream!
Oooo, the caramel recipe is calling my name….
The Art bag is a great idea for my nieces and nephews!
I love these ideas! I have some gifts to make, & maybe a messenger bag for myself.
Thanks!
definitely want to try the caramels and the messenger tote bag! i have a friend who travels who would love the flat iron case and document keeper. wow! good picks.
So many great ideas. They just keep coming.
Love the journal!! Want the Horner book!
Oooh – Seams to Me is on my holiday wishlist!
That travel organizer would be perfect to give to my friend. We often go on quilt shop/ wool and sheep festival road trips… now we’ll know where to find the map, the coupons, and the brochure to that good chocolate shop along the way!
yum yum caramels!
Thanks for the ideas!
Great ideas! Can’t wait to make the caramel!
I can see a couple of those needle books finding homes for Christmas!
Awesome ideas, thanks!
That caramel sounds divine!
have been drooling over the seams to me book for a while now and my collection would not be offended by any of the other books up for win either ;0]
I know so many travelers! What great gifts!
Such fun stuff! Thank you!
SO MANY GREAT IDEAS. I NEED TO GET BUSY!!
Forget gifts for other gals, I’m making the flat iron case for ME! So cute and super easy!
Caramel looks YUMMMY!!!
ooo the carmels! ooo the giveaway!! ooo the messenger bag!!!
That messenger bag tutorial has been on my list for a month! Love it!
Would love to win one of those books!
Great ideas, thank you!
Love the Orla Kiely-esque leaves on the messenger bag. Too cute!
love these books!
WOW – can’t wait to whip up these fun gifts
I love how many awesome blogs these tutorials link me to! Thanks!
Thanks for more great tutorials!
The caramel recipe looks wonderful!
The travel organizer is so cool – what a great gift!
I’d been meaning to make that travel organizer for a while, but then sort of forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me!
Great stuff as always. i love the flat iron travel pouch
love that orange fabric
I would love any of these books! Trying to get motivated about Christmas still. The men are always difficult to figure out…
Now I’m craving caramel…
So many great ideas, so little time! I need to get busy! Thanks for sharing all these ideas!
I’ve had that messenger bag tutorial bookmarked for awhile – thanks for the reminder!
Great book giveaways today! Yippee!
I think I’ll be making the flatiron case from for my sister… Great idea.
I love the little kitty cat bookplate. So cute!
This is perfect for my stash! Thanks!
Great group of projects!
I’ve been thinking of getting my daughter a lap desk for Christmas, and it never occured to me to make one–but maybe I will!
Last year I sewed my passport wallet with the help of a tutorial posted here on SewMamaSew. I love how you segregate the gifts making it easy to find something you saw a while back.
Great ideas as usual today.
I bookmarked the recipe for homemade caramel. Yummy!!
We are travelling to Disney World this Spring….some of these will definitely make my Christmas gift LIST!! Thanks for the chance!
These tutorials also inspire me as organising tools. Bags are always so useful!
That travel organizer just might be the perfect gift for my friend, Feesh. I’ve been trying to figure out something awesome and useful to make her and since she plans on heading back to visit Honduras, her mission field, in the spring a travel organizer will come in handy!
What a cool bag!
oh I love everything so much!
Fabric tags are such a great idea.
Those bookplates are too cute. I will for sure print off some of these, thanks!
What lovely ideas! I love Handmade Holidays!
I’m loving all this inspiration. Thanks!
Those caramels look amazing!
Love that book plate!
What great travel things to make.
I am so excited to make the messenger bag for my pre-teen! She’s gonna love it!
Mmm those caramels look amazing.
These are all such great ideas! I am loving this gift series. I’m hoping to do a handmade Christmas this year.
Love the art bag! So practical!
Nice variety in the tutorials. Thanks!
That travel organizer is just what I need!
That leather journal is gorgeous.
The leather journals are beautiful. I really like the stamped leather tags as well.
Oh, the letter needle books are so cute!
The caramels! The messenger bag! I want to make it all. Love these lists.
The flat iron travel pouch is an answer to one of my traveling woe! Sweet!
I love the messenger bag!
Oh that needle book is going in some peoples stockings this year
I made a passport cover a few years ago and I LOVE it. I like that this one has so many little pockets. Maybe my mother-in-law needs one of those.
LOVE the art bag!
Love the needle books. Where am I going to find the time to make all these.
Love that book on decorating with things you find in the forest.
Oh, wonderful, everything!
The Seams to Me book looks so interesting! I’d love to win that! Plus, those little needlebooks KILLED me!
What great books. I also like that Messenger Bag. Very cool. Off to Tweet for you.
Love these ideas! You have something for everyone on my list.
I was going to make chocolate dipped pretzels for my general gift, but those caramels look AMAZING. Also the messenger bag.
again, such great projects!
LOVE the letter needle holder. That is so cute!
The Little Letter Needle Book is so cute!
I love these ideas and am off to get the caramel recipe now!
Cute Happy Book Tag!
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great ideas
I’m ready to travel and make all of these great gifts!
Ooooh, I think that art bag might be perfect for holding my crochet hooks!
Love the ideas, but that carmel… mmmmmm!
Adorable soo little time to sew
i love that travel organizer!
i love travelling…this is so far my favorite day of Handmade November!
So many fun tutorials to choose from. My kids need the art bags. Yikes, my to-do list is getting so long!
I think I will be making caramals this weekend!
Love it!
I’m loving that messenger bag!! very cute!
Love the ideas and the recipe for caramel!
Nice things. Perfect for those road trips!
I really like the the messenger bag and the travel organizer. Thanks for the great ideas!
I am going to make the travel organizer for my mom. She has vision problems and that will make keeping track of her travel documents so much easier.
Caramel! Yummy!
I love the needlebook!
Great projects! Time to get sewing!
Ooooo even more goodies to add to my crafting bookmark folder…thank you!!!
Everything on today’s list is wonderful! I especially like the messenger bag!
Thanks for another great day of ideas! Really liked the art bag. and letter needle case.
Great ideas I am making my list for summer projects for next christmas
That travel iron pouch would totally be great for my sister! She is practically attached at the hip to it!
LOVE that travel organizer!
Thank you for the great ideas
SheilaC
I want to make everything!
OMG – that travel pouch is absolutely PERFECT!! I’ll make one for each of us an one for the grandparents … FAB!!
Lorraine
Canada
just got some ideas for my inlaws for christmas! thanks!!!
thanks for another great theme of tutorials!
So many great ideas!
Wonderful items!
I’d like to make some of these while traveling
Love the art bag and I HAVE to make me some of that caramel.YUM.
I can think of a few family members who could use that flat iron travel case. Thanks, for once again, providing some great ideas for gifts!
the leather items are beautiful
Mmmm…caramel…
I have looking at the tutorial for the little needle book for some time now and I really think it is cute.
The hardest part is choosing what to make first.
I’ve bookmarked the art bag in preparation for a long flight we’ll take next year.
another great roundup!
Love everything today. Which project to start first…
i’m making the flat iron case for my sister in law
Some of those “Make It”s are pretty rad, but I must say it’s the first time I’ve really “Meh”d on these homemade giveaways. Which is good, it’s already the 10th day…
So many good ideas, so little time!
Oh, that leather journal is BEAUTIFUL!
Oooh. Suitcase tags! I like those. And the messenger bag looks pretty cool too. So many projects, so little time.
Wonderful ideas! And relatively quick to make… which I like!
i love this series. the leather journals are gorgeous.
thanks for the link!
I love the Happy Bookplate template. Thanks!
Love that messenger bag!
Great gift ideas! Can’t wait to make the caramels!
I love the messenger bag and the travel organizer. Together they would make a good team.
I love the art bag. It would be perfect for a long car trip.
I love seeing tutorials from blogs that I follow!
These are all such great ideas!
All good things.
A good things.
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Fantastic! Not sure where to start. We’re getting married in Scotland next year and lots of friends and family are coming from Australia where we live – so many great gift ideas!
I have anna maria horner’s second book, but not her first. Maybe I’ll win it! I love those hand stamped tags too, I may need a set.
I love that messenger bag and the bags tags are soo cute!
Thank you so much for these gifts for travelers. They will make several family members and friends happy this Christmas.
That leather journal is gorgeous!
More great ideas. I’m loving it.
So many nice ideas something for everyone Mary Ellen
The Happy Bookplate from Helen at Orange You Lucky is perfect for two spunky, sweet girls receiving books from us this Christmas. Thank you!
The little needle book is so cute! I also have been circling around the idea of making a messenger bag, and this pattern will def help me move closer to actually doing it.
Mmmmm….caramel! Great post. The travel gifts are great ideas.
Ohhhhh, that leather travel journal! Gorgeous!
I need to make myself a flat iron cover!
I’m going to be making up some of these ideas – some for myself too! Thank you for the giveaway!
Great ideas! Thanks!
Home made caramel is now on my holiday baking list!! Likewise, if I get a flat iron for Christmas, I know where to go fo a cover for it!! Please, Santa…see, I promise to take very good care of a flat iron!
I think my mother could have written woodland style!
Love the little letter needlebooks…so cute!
I love the flat iron pouch! Perfect gift for my sister
I seriously NEED all of these gifts! They would make excellent gifts as well!
Travel organizer is the perfect gift for my best friend!
there are so many travelers in my lief (dad’s a pilot) and yet they all already have all these….maybe it’s time for new ones with prettier fabric!
Love the leather tags and journal! Also the Anna Marie Horner book.
The book nameplate is adorable!
I need to make one of the flat iron pouches!
i could use that travel pouch for other things…
The leather work is fantastic! and that caramel is making my mouth water!!
Yes!! I know quite a few travelers.
Great messenger bag.
The caramels look delicious. I’ve never made caramels before — may have to give them a try.
What a sweet little bookplate!
thanks for the ideas. love the travel art kit, The book plate idea is cute
Love the idea of the travel document keeper. One of my siblings is going to be traveling fo the holidays this year and that would be a fun thing to send hip off with.
these gifts look totally do-able – thanks for sharing
What a wonderful idea! Fabulous handmade gifts! And a giveaway as well…..I LOVE this!!!
Kind regards from Germany sends
Claudia
Such fun stuff!
Such a cute bookplate!
Caramels–yum!
I definitely know someone who cannot be separated from their flat iron. Great idea!
Wow, you’re never running out of things to give away are you? I’m moving and wondering whether I’ll be able to make cards and handmade presents this year at all.
I agree, the bookplate is really adorable.
I love that messenger bag!
Love the little needlebooks! Those are too adorable!
Love it all!! Thanks for all the inspiration!!!
I really like the travel organizer
I bookmarked the caramels. Mmmmm!
Homemade caramel – oh yum!
The travel organiser is a great gift for friends that have everything – thanx.
The letter needle books are the cutest!
Fun & useful — my favorite kind of project!
Homemade caramel! Be still my heart.
The travel organizer is my total fave!!
love the bags!!
Homemade caramel?!!!
How cute are those needle books?
mmm, never got around to making that needlebook – thanks for the reminder!
What a great giveaway! I’m loving all the beautiful gifts there.
Thank you for doing such a beautiful thing. I always like to promote your giveaways, filled with such creativity and life.
I have never thought of a flat iron pouch, but I feel they are going to be perfect for all of my girls
You just made my day……thank you……
Those little letters are SO adorable!
The Art Bag is a great idea for some kids in my list!
I love the basic messenger bag it is very pretty and simple!
Thanks for all the great ideas. I can’t wait to try those caramels!
Gosh, I can’t remember if I commented or not…if not, I dooo love the messenger bag tute. Cheers and thanks
I guess for any parents traveling with kids the Art Bag is a must. It looks really great and can help to survive the time when kids have to sit down and wait, wait, wait….Cool
I love the leather tag and journal!
wow! it’s impossible to run out of inspiration with you feeding me all these great ideas! thanks so much!
Great Ideas!
Very inspired.
Those needle books are wonderful. I wish more of my friends would like them!
Love the idea of the art bag
Oooh my sister could use a flat iron bag.
Mmm, that messenger bag is gorgeous.
the messenger bag looks amazing!
So many great ideas — love this series!
These are all great ideas! I especially love the travel organizer. If only I had more time, I’d make them all…
I love those bookplates!
okay- my to do list is GETTING LONG, but I;m craving caramel…
Love the messenger bag!
The letter needle-books are adorable
Got a wee bit carried away playing guitar lolol, I’m up in like 3 hours :L oh well I’m enjoying myself so I’ll keep playing