friday link love: Happy Holidays edition

Happy winter solstice! Happy end of the Mayan calendar day! Happy 2012! And happy Christmas!

The holidays seem to be a pretty big deal on this little crafty internet thingy. There are so many juicy, delicious, beautiful links to share that I had to divide them into categories. Have fun exploring!

Gifts:

• Need gifts now? Check out this round-up of Doable DIY Last Minute Gifts on Babble.
• More super-awesome, totally doable, DIY gifts.
• Learn how to make your own Christmas Crackers on Oh Happy Day.
• Too cool: Glittered dinosaur ornaments.
• Eight ways to wrap a gift.
• Three tutorials for making DIY snow globes: 1- Winter wonderland in a plastic cup, 2- Vintage inspired bell jar ornaments, 3- Jar snowglobes.

Decor:

• Make this pretty DIY golden garland from The Lovely Cupboard.
• DIY glittery gumdrop ornaments.
• Just Pretty: a candy colored holiday.
• Make a stocking from an old sweater.

• Three wreaths to make for the holidays.
• Rookie mag shows you how to make one of those trendy tassel garlands.
• Lots more pretty ideas in this Christmas decor round-up on Lottie Love.

Food:

• Cute ideas in this round-up of sweet holiday treats from Bakerella.
• These Christmas Cookies with Hidden Presents are fairly large and intense, but they’d be fun to open!
• Homemade Peppermint Patties
• Jelly Shot Test Kitchen has a round-up of all their past holiday jelly shot creations. Fun!
• Your S’more of the week: S’more Macarons from Bakers Royale.

Crafty Miscellany:

• Have you listened to the new, free podcast from CraftyPod all about the business of craft blogging?? It is a good one!
• Letter Heady – an archive of all kinds of vintage letter head.
• This would be a wonderful gift for a friend who is under the weather: Get Well Kit.
• A Flood of Memories – a lovely blog all about snail mail.

Have a wonderful holiday season, however and whatever you celebrate! xoxo