Mum preps for Christmas four months early - and spends just $15 handmaking presents - video Dailymotion

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A mum has started preparing for Christmas four months early - and is spending just $15 handmaking and thrifting her daughter's presents.   Shelby Shrull, 33, started making her daughter's, five, Christmas and birthday presents after needing to be more careful with money when she decided to stop working.  The mum-of-one had to thrift, clothes, toys and fabric  become more "resourceful" and began thrifting toys, clothes and fabric and has spent the last three years doing handmade presents.  So far this year she has made her daughter a dress up crown from thrifted materials, a crochet turtle toy, felt toys, a shirt from her mum's old dress and tote bag.

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00:00Every year I make my daughter's Christmas presents. She gets a few items that are brand new, but most everything is thrifted or handmade

00:05So here's what I've made so far

00:07So the last two years she has requested something crocheted by me that I love and this year she asked for a turtle that could

00:14Have eggs inside of it. So what she doesn't know is that I have making it to where they can hatch

00:19So all she thinks that she's getting is a couple

00:22Plain white eggs and a couple little baby tortoises and then I thrifted this fancy Nancy fabric for about a dollar dollar fifty

00:29I thrifted a bag of random scraps and there was a pretty good size blue in the bag

00:33And so this is probably like I don't know

00:35I paid like three dollars for all of the fabric altogether, but used not even like a sixth of the fabric

00:40Two years ago. I made my daughter some under-the-sea characters out of felt that I didn't even know what I was doing

00:46I just hand-stitched things

00:48And made her a bunch of under-the-sea characters like a stingray, a creepy little mermaid, her face scares me, but my daughter loves it

00:54Shell, octopus, and I had no idea what I was doing and they have lasted two years of full-time playing felt cost me like

01:00$5.99 for a massive stack. Last year for Christmas, I made my first like crocheting toy

01:05And then something else you can make is a teeny tiny granny square blanket for baby dolls or Barbies or make rugs for dollhouses

01:11My very first things I did for my daughter ever was make a little baby carrier. This you can find on Pinterest

01:16Just type in crocheted baby carrier and this was a free pattern

01:19She just wears it over her shoulders like this on her chest and the baby sits right here and she can walk around like you

01:24You know with the baby. Are you kidding? I'm obsessed with it. I made so many people these

01:27It's a little baby bonnet and it ties around the chin right here

01:30And then she folds it up and then because she loved it so much after I learned the proper sizing for the pattern a bigger

01:35One that's like at that kind of elf looking fairy ones that have a point on the top

01:38So my daughter wears that while she's playing with this baby and they match

01:42It's ridiculously cute did not follow a pattern for this either

01:44But I wanted something that kind of matched together so she could have a little diaper bag

01:48That she puts like baby things in but now it's turned into a snack bag

01:51So if she's going into town with me instead of throwing snacks in my purse

01:54She will carry this around and put her own snacks in it scrap fabric and make little doll

01:58Blankets and pillows my mom made my daughter this blanket this pillow to match a blanket and pillow that she made for my daughter's bed

02:05Look up free patterns for crochet clothes watched on the other video app and you just follow along step-by-step

02:11It was so easy buttons. I got from the thrift store as well in a big bag

02:15This probably cost me $2 to make and I found another little free pattern on that

02:18I'm a video app and make this little cardigan it goes over dresses

02:22Another fun thing is thrifting toys and then personalizing it for your child who bought this before I was pregnant with my daughter

02:27I would personalize it for their nursery. So this is my daughter and I got this for like $5. It's an old Ford van

02:34It's all spider webbed up

02:35But I painted little flowers to match her bedroom could totally do this for kids for their toys or for bedroom decor

02:43Super cute, but push yourself out of your own boundaries and it's okay to fail because without failing on all of my things I've done

02:49I would not have been able to make anything that I've shown you in any of these videos a chaotic crafter

02:53Just just like everything else I do pure chaos

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Mum preps for Christmas four months early - and spends just $15 handmaking presents

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