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1. Printable Christmas Gift Tags (even a drunken elf could use)

Christmas-Gift-Tags-imageOh no! It’s Christmas Eve and somebody forgot to buy tags for the gifts. Hmm. Well, you could just get out your Post-it pad or use your burrito wrapper from lunch. Aren’t you swanky.

No! Don’t do that! No one will appreciate black bean remnants on their gift, trust me.

Instead, use these printable gift tags that I designed just for you. Merry Christmas! It’s so easy. There are stockings, snowflakes and even some lightsabers thrown in because apparently there’s a new Star Wars. They should really do some marketing, I had no idea.

There are several pages with different styles. Choose your favorite or use them all!

If you need help figuring this out, it’s okay. We’ve all had someone put too much bourbon in our egg nog once or twice. Here’s how to use these things:

  1. Download the PDF of the gift tags here.
  2. Print them using your home (or hotel) printer. They are letter-size pages, so it’s easy. I suggest printing at full size, but if you shrink to fit, the world will keep spinning. Depending on how much egg nog you’ve had, it may spin faster.
  3. Cut them out using the handy dotted lines as a guide. I use a fancy Fiskars cutter, you could use scissors. Or the plastic knife from your burrito (I suggest rinsing or licking first).
  4. Fill them out. Yeah, I thought that was obvious, but you know… egg nog.
  5. Tape them to the present. Wait, you did what? Ha! Oh well, open them up again and see who gets what, THEN tape the tag to the gift.

If you’re having trouble reading the instructions (egg nog), just look at these photos:

Print

Cut

Tag

In case you got lost (egg nog), here’s where to download the printable gift tags: http://bit.ly/christmas-tags

Happy Holidays and please tag responsibly.

Oh! Wait! Once more thing… try some delicious vegan egg nog.

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2. Impressionable Portraits

Long ago, in a land far, far away (okay, like a few streets away...literally) I used to sit and draw conté portraits in a mall. My boyfriend at the time worked for a shop, who allowed me to sit right in front offering my services. At the time I did it because I could and it made me a little money during high school. But to be honest, I didn't see it as something to rave about or be excited about.

c. 1999

Fast forward almost 20 years, and I can tell you that my view on portraiture has changed...dramatically.

Hand drawn portraiture brings a perspective, quality, and etherial impression a photograph lacks without professional editing. And this is exactly what I hope to bring to you. The act of drawing a portrait is very personal, challenging, and a HUGE honor and gift given to me as the artist.

I have this daydream to hand draw children, friends, and family into fairies and angels. I am starting this new service using colored pencil while I build my watercolor techniques in this subject matter. The idea behind Impressionable Portraits is they are lifelike, and look very close to the realistic photo, but with a hint of whimsy and sketchiness found only in drawing. They are not intended to be photo realistic, but definitely to look a lot like the person being drawn.

c. 2015

I am currently taking commission requests for these portraits, and still have room to get some done before the Christmas holiday. They take about a week to create. Please visit my request page, fill out the information form, and in the subject line write "Impressionable Portrait".

These are 5x7 inch colored pencil drawings for a flat fee of $200. Sprayed and matted in a white mat, ready to be placed in an 8x10 frame.

All I need is the photo, if it's fairy or angel wings, color palette, and something of interest to the individual. 

It's my wish to provide an image filled with wonder, joy, and light around a person you love dearly. As a gift, or for yourself.

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3. Book and Original Art Giveaway in time for the holidays!

You can win .... 

a copy of 

'Sleeping Bear - Journey of the Cubs' 

written by best selling and award winning author Anne Margaret Lewis 
- illustrated by (me!) Hazel Mitchell
A sweet chapter book retelling the legend of the Sleeping Bear Dunes of Lake Michigan, 
great for K-2 and for Christmas stockings!



PLUS! (Yes, there is more!)

The ORIGINAL pencil drawing for the illustration from the page you see above from Chapter one, 
signed and dated by me.

Entering is easy ... 
follow the blog and leave a comment to say you have done so.
If you can't get the comment to stick, send me an email at 
and I will make sure you are in the draw.
Draw will be made Friday Dec 7th 2012.

Thanks for entering and good luck!

Toodles
Hazel

PS - Can't wait ... find it at my 
ETSY store






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4. Quick and Simple Gift Idea: Decorated Shopping Tote

The kids decorated this bag together the other day for a friend’s birthday. It’s a shopping tote that zips into pouch-shape so you can store it in your purse and have it handy. Here in Germany pretty much everybody has re-useable totes because you have to pay extra for grocery bags.

The bag comes from dharma trading, which has a ton of other bag options for very reasonable prices. I think you can get some blank totes at Michael’s, too, but maybe not the lightweight zipper kind like this. The kids used Sharpies because we couldn’t find our Tee Juice markers, but I would recommend the fabric markers because the colors will wear better.

Here’s the back:

I thought it turned out really well.


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5. My Personalized Christmas Book

 

Wanna know a secret?… We didn’t come up with the idea of putting your child’s name into their own customized children’s book.  In fact, when I was six (about twenty years ago), my mother bought a novelty gift that was made by an incredibly modern device (something called a “com-pu-ter”).  It inserted my name, age, and city of residence into a story about Santa.

 

A Christmas Story

 

You see, when little Jeff (me) asked Santa to give all the grownups the unselfish give of Time, he rewarded him (me) with a ride on his sleigh delivering presents (and time, I guess).  The only problem (besides the lame moral) was that I was a precocious child who thought, “That didn’t happen!  I asked for a truck, not Time!”  I suspected that some trick was being played on me and read it exactly once (sorry Mom).

 

The story’s failed use of the past tense (indicating a false history that even a child can see through) inspired our use of the future and present tenses.  Our custom kids books say things like, “If she were big, she’d…” or “When Olivia goes to the park, she…”

 

Also, absent from a book about me… pictures of Me!!!  No wait, there I am!  Look how handsome!

 

Jeff's Personalized Christmas Book

 

Here, they got me from my good side!

 

Jeff's Personalized Christmas Book 2

 

This book’s lessons were very useful during the development of our own customizable books.  Now, your precocious children are guaranteed  to cry out, “That’s me!” instead of, ”No way!”

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6. My Personalized Christmas Book

 

Wanna know a secret?… We didn’t come up with the idea of putting your child’s name into their own customized children’s book.  In fact, when I was six (about twenty years ago), my mother bought a novelty gift that was made by an incredibly modern device (something called a “com-pu-ter”).  It inserted my name, age, and city of residence into a story about Santa.

 

A Christmas Story

 

You see, when little Jeff (me) asked Santa to give all the grownups the unselfish give of Time, he rewarded him (me) with a ride on his sleigh delivering presents (and time, I guess).  The only problem (besides the lame moral) was that I was a precocious child who thought, “That didn’t happen!  I asked for a truck, not Time!”  I suspected that some trick was being played on me and read it exactly once (sorry Mom).

 

The story’s failed use of the past tense (indicating a false history that even a child can see through) inspired our use of the future and present tenses.  Our custom kids books say things like, “If she were big, she’d…” or “When Olivia goes to the park, she…”

 

Also, absent from a book about me… pictures of Me!!!  No wait, there I am!  Look how handsome!

 

Jeff's Personalized Christmas Book

 

Here, they got me from my good side!

 

Jeff's Personalized Christmas Book 2

 

This book’s lessons were very useful during the development of our own customizable books.  Now, your precocious children are guaranteed  to cry out, “That’s me!” instead of, ”No way!”

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