I was browsing through my daily Google alerts and came across two great Arts & Crafts posts for the holidays.  These two posts make it easy to include a few handmade crafts projects into your holiday decorations.

The first was a press release from Better Homes and Gardens that featured great ideas for carving your Halloween pumpkin using pumpkin carving stencils with links to downloadable stencils you can print right on your home printer.  There was a nice selection of dog breed stencils and also, links to delicious pumpkin recipes.

 The second was video by Tom Gammill, the creator of The Doozies, showing step by step how to draw a cartoon Santa Claus using mostly circles and half circles.  Tom made this so easy, even I could do it!  Use his techniques to decorate your windows, create personalized gift tags... use your imaginzation.