HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN CHRISTMAS CRACKERS
s you can see, my Christmas Crackers are going to double as place cards. They’re so fun to make, I thought you might like to see. We’ve been saving paper towel rolls for a few months now. I cut off about an inch and a half from each roll (so they aren’t immediately recognizable as paper-towel rolls!), and wrapped them all exactly alike, because I want my people to think I bought them and be surprised by what they find. We filled them with little things or long narrow things, because that’s all that would fit.
O much fun hunting for this stuff, thinking of the person, figuring out what we can squeeze into that narrow roll–my favorites are cute things that are also useful: vanilla beans, vegetable peelers, nail polish, seam rippers, pie birds, toys, light-sticks, vintage ornaments; we managed to squeeze in a couple of Santa hats; silk scarves, screwdrivers, birthday candles; our music man got a harmonica; if we’re lucky, there’ll be a spontaneous after-dinner sing-along!
ind of an expert now, I could do a pretty good list of all things 1 1/4" wide! They’re for us to open after Christmas dinner, a gigantic conversation piece I hope; everyone, for example, got a glue-on mustache, all in different styles. Extremely useful, for important laugh factor. If our guests enjoy these half as much as we did making them, we will be happy!
es, just what we’ve been waiting for! It blew like crazy, we ran around in it, got it into our eyelashes and froze our fingers, all the things snow’s supposed to do! Why does it feel like magic every single time? I don’t think I’ll ever grow out of loving the first snow.
his weekend I’ll take pictures of lights at night, on our house, and downtown on Main Street, so all of you can see what Martha’s Vineyard looks like all lit up. xoxo Have a wonderful weekend! Do the Elf thing and try to buy at least one thing from a small shop you love. They need us more than ever. And we need them!
