Yay I've got more done. Well I have most of my Moms gift done as well but I want to wait until I have everything done of hers.
Here's what I made for one of my nieces. She likes to read, so I made her the book clutch and inside are the little notebook that I recovered to look pretty, some bookmarks and a little reading light I found at the dollar store. Total cost $4.50 I already had the fabric, paper for the book marks and embroidery floss for the book tong. This includes the light that was $2.00

Scroll down for other gifts added later, some on page 2 also.

Yay I have some of my gifts done...or some half way done, lol. But I thought if I made the list and posted here then maybe I'll keep my motivation and finish everything. I've also posted the total price so everyone can see what Christmas on the cheap looks like,  .
Here's what I have so far....a purse/messenger bag and matching wallet for my 12 year old niece. Total price was $6. I made the strap to short(had a brain fart) so I added a extension with the buttons, now she can have a short or long strap so it worked out 

I got the wallet tute here. http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=20925
Two necklaces in a name gift box. I wanted to make a matching bracelet but then I'd have to find out her measurements so I decided to make a "bracelet kit" for her. She loves making stuff. Total $4

I got the idea for the button pendent here http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=41417.0
Here's the frosted glass wear I made for my Dad, they say Steve's Beer with a thumbs up. Total $5, I already had the armour etch that's why it's such a low total.


I have more done but no pictures yet. I'm kind of at a gift block for my 8 year old niece any ideas? Something not to expensive...

My ferrets and I take a lot of car trips together so I needed something for when I stopped I could take my babies with me wherever I went. I'm very paranoid about leaving them in the car for any amount of time because they don't handle heat very well. The carry sacks I did have weren't very pretty and if someone were to look at them they'd think hmm what an odd purse. So I decided I need a new cool bag that could easily fool the unsuspecting shop owner, well until the bag/purse started moving, lol.
I made the strap adjustable and a zippered top.

Here's the inside snaps, it's so I can hook them inside by their harnesses don't need any wiggling out. I made four of them even though I only have two ferrets right now. I decided four was the magic number but don't tell my Hubby he thinks three is, hehe.

And here's Sugar modeling for me. She's not strapped in though, I think she looks adorable with her little red harness on but she doesn't like it to much.

The best part about this bag is it only cost me $3.00 most of the stuff I already had lying around.

So imagine my surprise when I received a second package from littleoddforest today. It made my morning that's for sure. Here's more goodies I got from Singapore from left to right well kind of. Excuse the snowman sheets I'm kind of early this year.
The black fabric is just that fabric, it's so pretty. The gold thing is a jewelery holder it's funny cause I was thinking about making one of these last week or so. Good thing I didn't, lol. There is a little owl key chain, he's so cute! A gold elephant keychain and a very pretty butterfly barrette. The green things are coasters, I've also been needing some of these, lol. In the top right is a card that has a very pretty floral design. And the last thing is a small purse. I think they have some cool name but I can't remember right now.
I tried to get a better picture of the key chains but my camera is being a turd.
Thanks again!

So due to a bit of shipping confussion I'm just now posting pics. But here is all the awesome stuff I got from icispi

It's a group shot she made me two bookmarks, a reading journal with letter cutouts to add if I decide it needs it. Bookends that are so cool! They have a cover that you can slip off and change out. For the covers she sent two already covered, two blank ones and a templet so If I want to make more. This is such a cool idea.

This is really old book look a like holder. It's so cool I remember these from the big old libraries my Dad and I use to do genelogical work in. Inside(no pic of that sorry)it has alphabet tabs that you can organize with.

Everyones stuff turned out so cool! I love the tatted bookmark. Always happy to see another tatter, when I tell people I tat the most common response is what's that?,lol.

I'm just now getting my photos up of the package that littleoddforest sent me, sorry it's taken so long but here's the loot.

Theres cool Japanese stationary, some pages from her local news magazine, a food guide for tourists that everything looks so good in everytime I look at it it get hungry, some neato bandaids, and a page from an antique book in Chinese brush stokes which are going to make it into a frame for my bedroom we have an Asian inspired bedroom.
And here's a close up picture of my kick ass coin purse that I'm in love with, two keychains and a tiny gold barrel that had candy in it(I've ate it all already, lol). You can also see some of the food from the food guide. So yummy!

Thank you everything is awesome!

Yay for dogrrl the best swap partner in the world! The other day I awoke to this wonderful package.
Here is a photo of the dog bed and all the wonderful bandanna for my dog Falcor.

The bed is so soft I considered stealing it for myself, lol. The bandanna are a nice array of wonderful fabrics. Three are embroidered with a happy new year design, an easter bunny, and a beautiful Irish one. In fact here's a close up picture of it, it's my favorite one the stitching are tiny shamrocks.

She made a huge sleep sacks for my ferrets here's an action shot of Thera coming out of it.

She has a small dog day care and she sent me a magnet of what I'm assuming is her advertisement, it's so funny. If I lived in San Francisco my baby would definitely be there. Also in the picture is an accordion photo holder, the sign on it says beware of dogs. The flames are for my turtle and tortoise, Lashaba and Luna, she thought of everyone!

Also she made two squeaky toys that have replacement squeakers and dried chicken strips that didn't make it in to the pictures.
Sorry I don't have more action shots, my Hubby has our dog this month(we're both in the military and stationed on opposite sides of GA so the puppy goes back and forth). Everything is awesome! Thank you so much!!

Thanks Pink Hulu, I'm glad you like everything I was worried. You were the first non family person I made anything for!
Here's what I got from leelee.

I love the fabric! The images are cool(the one on the small bag is the one of the stickers I sent to Pink Hulu), I think they're iron on but I'm not sure. Oh and in the tote there are two large pockets. You did a wonderful job!
Here is a better close up of the images.

So I had an old uniform top and decided that it would be perfect for my puppy because he's such a Rambo doggie, ha yeah not really but here it is.
This is the top I ordered a name tape so his bed is just his. I left the buttons and everything on the bottom so that I can take the cover off when it gets dirty.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y185/lady4feet/IM000095.jpg

And here's the Rambo doggie modeling it for me.

WooHoo I got it to work!! Sorry this is the first time I got photos to work.
I was given these gold lamps that weren't in the best condition so of course I had to pretty them up. Heres the lamp before:


Here's a close up of one of the dogs:


And the whole thing:


I'm happy with them even though they remind me of something that should be in a little kids room as oposed to a 21 year old apartment.