This year Christmas came and I was very broke. My Christmas goodies were supplied by the local Salvation Army. Obviously I had no money for gifts for anyone. Over the years I have been in a variety of different financial positions from being able to give expensive gifts, to having nothing to buy things with. Fortunately for me, I have a creative gene in my makeup so in past years of lean, I have made a number of different things for family and friends.
Above is a sampling of what I made this year. I was surprised and pleased to find that I had some small ability to paint. I have done many of the name signs in the past for various people and places, with ALL the lettering done by hand. I use the different fonts on my computer for different styles of lettering, print it out in the size I want, trace it onto the wood, then paint it.
This year I decided to try and paint and am very pleased with the results. I have done a number of extra paintings (no two are the same) and hope to sell them to make some extra cash. Some of these are shown below. I also now have a Cricut machine for lettering and am using it with vinyl to do the lettering on the name signs. Unfortunately I only have one font cartridge. I hope to get a variety of them as I sell items and can re-invest some of the money into it.
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