Blogmas Day 15: DIY Gift for your Partner

Whilst looking through Pinterest I came across this cute DIY 'I love you to the moon and back gift' and so I thought I would do a post about how to make one. I have made mine for my boyfriend and think I will just put it in the envelope with his Christmas card.

What you need:

• Piece of A4 white paper
• Scissors
• Glue
• Biro pen
• Coloured pencils

Instructions:

1) First cut out two circles from your piece of paper and a thin strip. You can make this gift any size you want so the size of the circles and strip is up to you but I would recommend that the strip is at least 1.5cm wide so that you are able to write on it.

2) Using coloured pencils colour in one of the circles with a world design and on the other draw craters to mimic the moon. Then Write 'I love you' in pen over the top of the world design and write 'to the moon and back' along the strip but leaving a space at either end of the paper.

3) Fold the strip of paper in a Z style zig-zag fold. Then glue the first end of the strip to the back of the world design in the centre, then do the same to the front of the moon design paper. 

Gift from the front

4) Ta dah! Give your partner a personal- homemade gift.

Christmas Wishes,

Maya x

Little Miss Organisation

Blogmas Day 13: DIY Wrapping Paper Gift Bag

Maybe it's just me but I think gift bags are ridiculously overpriced, they are so expensive! So this blog post shows you how to make Christmas gift bags out of wrapping paper.

What you will need:

• Wrapping paper (I am using my flatmates which she bought in Primark)
• Ribbon (I bought mine in a pack for £1 from The Works)
• Scissors
• Hole Punch
• Sellotape

1) Cut a piece of wrapping paper that is roughly twice as tall and three times as wide as the present which you would like to put inside. Then fold the wrapping paper in half (like shown) and stick in place with sellotape. 

2) Then fold the bottom section of the wrapping paper upwards, this will be the bottom of the bag and should be about two times wider than you would like the base. Fold the front sheet down and press down the corners to form a diamond shape 

3) Fold the top and bottom half of the diamond down so that they meet in the middle, leaving no gaps and seal in place with sellotape.

4) Open the bag from the top and push the base downwards so that it now resembles a bag structure, if the base will not stay down you may need to place card inside to keep the shape however I do not usually find this necessary.

5) Fold over the top of the bag, towards the side which you sealed with sellotape as this will be the back. Then whilst folded hole punch two holes in the top of the bag. Wrap your presents and place them, and a card inside and tie the bag with ribbon (through the holes punched). 

6) Give to the lucky recipient! 

Christmas Wishes

Maya x

Little Miss Organisation

Blogmas Day 11: Diy Christmas Book

It's Christmas in 2 weeks, Blogmas is flying by!! This is the first time I have spent the run up to Christmas in a big city and so I wanted to have a way to keep track of all the festive activities I plan on doing before I head home for the holidays...

Firstly making this Christmas book was a really fun Christmassy activity. In order to make the basis of the book I followed a Youtube tutorial. I used a piece of A3 white card to make the structure of my book and each page measures 10cm x 8cm. To decorate the book I headed to Poundland and bought a three pack of Christmas washi tape and also some festive stickers which I use to fill in blank spaces throughout the book (I will also be using these for inside Christmas cards). For the front cover I simply drew a fancy Christmas tree with red and green gel pens.


There are so many different ways that you could use a Christmas book but here are a few of the ways I am using mine (mainly for lists). To keep track of Christmas present spending and also what I have bought for different people plus Christmas card lists and of course your Christmas list. I also use mine to keep track of different places I want to go Christmas shopping, Christmas activities, Christmas crafts and baking. It's also useful in helping get organised for the big day itself and can be used for to-do lists, Christmas food shop lists and also to keep track of wrapping so it doesn't all have to be done on Christmas eve!

Christmas Wishes,

Maya x

Little Miss Organisation