Seeing the beginnings of Christmas produce on the street made me realize that the next two months months are underway to fly, as they always do. Put your feet for an hour, and creating a "natural" list of Christmas gifts. Well, it may be necessary to buy new games machines for children but for everyone else, giving Green donations will be greatly appreciated. P>
If you do not have flowers blooming around the Christmas period, a note reviewed next few years to grow some garden. Fresh Flowers in the middle of winter, right from the garden brighten your home and make gifts. If you have any flowers that will bloom at the right time, try your hand in a small flower arrangement and see if you can not come up with some really nice. P>
Just as cut flowers, Winter, the potted plants are a good present to give. Whether you buy or cultivate plants decorate the pot with simple painted flowers or leaves, or buy a pot decoration from your garden center. P> Give
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Flowers is a traditional craft, and can easily be done at home. Buy or make a press release, and choose flowers from your garden that you can create an image. Set your picture in a frame and cover with glass. A picture frame will do nicely. Small flowers can be used as well. They are more fiddly, but look stunning when stacked on a photograph. Pressed flowers can be used to decorate the home-made cards, large items such as tables glass coffee, badges and tiny. P>
Start now pressing your flowers, and keep them safe until winter nights start drawing, then get creative! P>
During the autumn, the forests are a major source of natural talents. Take a bag or two with you, wrap warmly and take the kids on a walk around your local forest. Keep your eyes peeled. P>
Fallen branches are a wonderful base of the table to make Christmas decorations. Insects living under the bark, in order to remove all the peel before you begin. Varnish if you want, or simply smooth with a little glass. Then glue on the leaves and berries of holly, mistletoe, dried herbs, anything you happen to find it work. P>
To have a go at the sculpture? Prepare and carve wood in one form or in an abstract and let your imagination go with it! Using natural materials, grasses, etc.; To decorate your masterpiece. It is a good idea for the first varnished wood if you intend to make a longer period of creation. P> Give
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You know your mushrooms, some foody gathering for a friend and dry. Either hang on a range threaded on string for a day or two, or on the installment and laity plates, and in a place very cool oven (the lowest temperature possible) with the door open for a few hours. Back after a few hours. Arrange mushroom slices on paper if your pans are not sticks, mushrooms or spread on a grid. When they are cool, put them in pots and a beautiful label. P>
Near home, you can produce an excess of this year. Do you have a lot of tomatoes at the moment, and do not want to fill the freezer tomato soups and purees? Tomatoes are sun-dried food, and make a great gift. Guaranteeing three or four days of sun is not always feasible if, then cheat! P>
Cut the tomatoes in half and throw them on the wire shelves, sprinkle a little chopped fresh (or dried) basil on each tomato half. Taste of sea salt with a (very rarely) with some basil or any other herb you have. Then, as with sliced mushrooms, put trays in a very cool oven for a few hours, leaving the door open. Do not turn on them. After a few hours, to take those that are totally dry, and check every half hour or until they are all dry. P>
Cool completely and keep in an airtight glass container. Three sealabe glass jars full of different flavor "sun-dried" tomatoes make a beautiful gift. P>
There are so many gifts you can produce from the garden, it is worth making a few notes in your garden issue for the next year to grow a few Christmas gifts. P>
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For example, the elder elderberry wine grows well in most places, and produces very nutritious berries, perfect for wine, fruit juices and syrups. And if you can not wait until the berries, flowers can be used to make champagne elder. P>
Scented flowers are beautiful "pot pourri." Collect petals as they fall, and dry. Then fill in simple cotton bags or buy enough small ceramic bowls or trays. P> Create a sleep
Pillow. Make a small cushion from a cotton cloth. Fill the air with lavender flowers. Lavender pillow was placed under the pillow at night. Lavender is proven help them relax and calm the nerves and is an excellent gift for a friend said. If you are good at sewing, a neck pillow to relax after a hard day's work. P>
Nature is simply the bursting of creative ideas. Taking a moment or two now to come into contact with them could save a lot of Christmas shopping trauma. Give Green must be better! P>