Sale at Hazel Street Designs

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Handmade Gifts

I don't always make my gifts, but when I do, I think making handmade gifts is much more fun than shopping for a gift. And I'm always more excited for someone to open the gift I've made especially for them than opening a store-bought gift.

Now that Christmas is over & all the gifts are opened, I can share some of the gifts I made this year!

{Holiday Card}

Sending out Christmas cards didn't happen this year. In fact, this is the only card I made all season. But I like it enough that it may appear in my shop next Christmas!

{Notecards}

It's hard to tell in this picture, but the initial is embossed in silver. Against the navy cards it looked stunning!

{Clutches}

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Merry Christmas

may your christmas be merry & bright

Wrapping {Gifts}

Wrapping gifts is one of my favorite parts of gift-giving!

Here are some of my favorite wrappings this year.

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Cutie Pie

Because he's just too cute not to share!

Hope

Christmas is the season of hope. It's easy to get wrapped up in the parties, the gift buying, the decorating, the crowded stores, the impatient crowds, and everything else that seems to accompany this time of year. And it's hard not to look at the world we live in & wonder if there will ever be relief. Will we ever know peace? Do we have a reason to hope?

We do...and His name is Jesus.

I was reading another blog this week & the author posted the words to the song "I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day". And they struck me hard. The words were written by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1863. But they still ring true today.

And in despair, I bowed my head;

"there is no peace on earth", I said.

"For hate is strong,

and mocks the song,

of peace on earth, good-will to men!"

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:

"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;

the wrong shall fail,

the right prevail,

with peace on earth, good-will to men."

Hope...

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Song "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" sung by Casting Crowns

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