How to Decorate With Wood Hollow Crafts

Wood Hollow Crafts is a company that sells unique handcrafted welcome signs that can be hung on a door (usually the front door!) These wood hollow crafts are famous world wide amongst animal and pet lovers because each sign features some kind of creature dangling from the welcome plaque.

The product is actually not that complex either in design or concept. Basically, a wood hollow craft is a hand-painted wooden animal, which resembles a flat puppet with movable arms and legs that is created in the image of a dog, cat, bear, tiger, koala bear, elephant and just about every other kind of animal that ever boarded Noah’s ark.

However, if that isn’t quaint enough, these charming wood hollow craft animals also come with interchangeable outfits that can be added and removed from the wooden figure. This means that you can dress up your wood hollow craft frog, dog or hog as Santa for Christmas or as a Yankee Soldier on July 4th.

The tiny outfits are attached to the wooden slats used to create the animals with tiny strips of Velcro. This way when it is rains, you can dress up your wood hollow animal in a raincoat and when it is sunny, attach a swimsuit and sunglasses. Some people become very fond of wood hollow craft animals as they almost become avatars of your own mood or personality to the outside world.

Wood Hollow Crafts also features specialty outfits that suit occupations, hobbyists or sports. This allows you to dress up your favorite totem animal as a postman, policeman, nurse, fireman, football player, tennis player or baseball player. Your choice of outfits for your wood hollow craft animal is as unlimited as your imagination.

Teddy Bears with interchangeable outfits are also a specialty of Wood Hollow crafts. The teddy bear wood hollow products have only been around since 1998 but they have been a big hit with the public. These smiling bears have been seen adorning everything from outhouses to nursery room doors.

The company also specializes in providing stock wood hollow welcome signs that feature just about every kind of dog breed that you can imagine – from basset hounds to dachshunds to Labradors. The company also promises that if they do not have a wood hollow likeness of your pet, that they will create one especially for you. All you have to do is send them a good clear photo of your favorite four-legged friend and they will customize your welcome sign for you so that it is an exact recreation of your pet. If you suggest some of the dog’s favorite activities, they will also customize the wooden clothing to suit your pet’s personality.

How to Create and Decorate a Christmas Gift Basket

One of the most enjoyable of personal or corporate gifts that you can put together is the Christmas gift basket. This type of gift basket can be color coordinated and decorated with ribbons that are in the colors of Christmas. Red and green is a popular color scheme for a Christmas gift basket as are the colors blue and white or red and white. You can also use glitter, snow, and white tufts of cotton to make the basket look more festive.

One very nice idea for a Christmas gift basket is the Peppermint Twist type of basket in which everything in the basket is red and white including foil wrapped chocolates, Christmas ornaments and candy canes. You can also choose items that taste like peppermint to go into the basket such as mint flavored cocoa or chocolates.

You can’t go wrong with a Christmas gift basket that is filled with the traditional foods of the season such as fruitcake, nuts, oranges, candy canes, Christmas cookies, spiced cider and cocoa mix. If you want to add alcohol to the mix try adding Kailua, Bailey’s or cider. One cocktail that is classic for Christmas is Bolls and 7 up which is used to make a drink called the Snowball.

Another great idea for a Christmas gift basket is one for the grandma or mom of the house who likes to bake Christmas cookies. Consider filling a basket with cookie cutters, sprinkles, glitter and cake decorating tubes.

Another nice idea is to fill the basket with Christmas decorations or the pieces for a nativity scene. You can even light up this type of basket by attaching battery run Christmas lights around it.

The corporate Christmas gift basket can include items such as Christmas themed coffee mugs with your branding on it and ornaments to hang on the office tree. Cookies, coffee and cake are also classic additions to this type of office gift.