Homemade Christmas Gifts

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Whenever anyone asks me what I want for Christmas, I always reply…make me something!  I love handmade gifts.  My son has made me several that I treasure!  When he was in college and wanted a knitted blanket, he taught himself to knit.  That Christmas I got a hand knitted shawl. (It is cream colored, dainty and perfect, but not me at all, lol).  For Mother’s Day, he got a glass cookie jar and used a cricut to put “Make Mother’s Day Great Again” on it.

One Christmas he gave me a picture he painted—I have it hanging in the living room.  It’s a winter scene in the forest—I think it’s beautiful!

Then he discovered his love of woodworking!  He made me this wooden tray out of so many tiny pieces for Christmas one year, intending for me to use it for cookies, but I won’t risk anything happening to it!

Last year he made me a new cutting board that I can use for rolling out cookies.  He made the board—it has a delicate scroll on the side– and then he added a lip so the board won’t budge while I’m rolling out dough!

Now I know I’m lucky to have such a talented son, but homemade gifts do not need to be so complicated!  Take a look at some of the funny suggestions for stocking stuffers that are sure to tickle someone’s fancy! And quite easy to make yourself!

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    1. Morning! I woke up very early and got all ready to go but I’m waiting for the sun to come up and for it to warm up a bit. What a gorgeous wooden tray! I don’t blame you – I wouldn’t use it either – I’d hang it on the wall! Your son is, indeed, a very talented young man!!!

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  6. from wolf’s

    TheseTruthsOffline
    Coyote
    December 10, 2022 01:13

    Good news: Federal Judge denies request to hold Trump team in contempt…
    https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/federal-judge-denies-request-to-hold-trump-team-in-contempt/

    A federal judge Friday did not grant the Justice Department’s request to hold the office of former President Donald Trump in contempt for failing to comply with a grand jury subpoena demanding the return of documents with classified markings, according to a source familiar with the matter.

    The decision was made during a closed-door hearing at a federal courthouse in Washington, D.C.

    The Justice Department declined comment.

    Trump’s attorneys had no comment, but a spokesperson for Trump said in a statement that the former president “and his counsel will continue to be transparent and cooperative, even in the face of the highly weaponized and corrupt witch-hunt from the Department of Justice.”

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  17. from tcth

    Citizen 817
    Citizen 817
    December 10, 2022 12:28 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    6h
    The Trump Administration got 58 hostages released from various hostile countries without paying any money, or giving up anything. That is something, both in numbers and lack of remuneration, that has never been done before in any other administration. The America hating basketball player for the “Merchant of Death,” especially when the former Marine is not even included, is a one-sided disaster, and a BIG WIN FOR RUSSIA. If I made that deal the Dems would chant, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA!

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    1. Citizen 817
      Citizen 817
      December 10, 2022 12:31 am

      Donald J Trump Retruthed:

      @MonicaCrowley
      2h
      Per Matt Taibbi, a handful of Twitter execs coordinated with the FBI, DHS and DNI in their widespread rigging of the 2020 election.

      This is just the tip of the iceberg – and it’s already the biggest political crime in U.S. history.

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  18. Citizen 817
    Citizen 817
    December 10, 2022 12:38 am

    Federal Judge denies request to hold Trump team in contempt…

    A federal judge Friday did not grant the Justice Department’s request to hold the office of former President Donald Trump in contempt for failing to comply with a grand jury subpoena demanding the return of documents with classified markings.

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  22. Citizen 817
    December 10, 2022 1:44 am

    Kari Lake Files 70 Page Lawsuit to Throw Out Fraudulent Arizona Midterm Election Results – Claims HUNDREDS of Thousands of Illegal Ballots, 59% of ED Precinct Machine Failures, Tens of Thousands of Illicit Mail-in Ballots – FILING INCLUDED

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/breaking-kari-lake-files-70-page-lawsuit-throw-fraudulent-arizona-midterm-election-results-claims-hundreds-thousands-illegal-ballots-59-precinct-machine-failures-election-day-t/

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  27. this is an interesting comment from cfp about the lake lawsuit…so many votes slipped into “drawer 3” and may not have been counted. The AG race is having a recount, so IF in a recount there are many more votes than previously “recorded” that would PROVE election fraud/errors, no???

    Pigsley

    Sorry if this has been explained already…..Abe’s AG spot is being recounted now. Lots of eyeballs on this recount. If he now has thousands more votes (because the door 3 votes were slipped into the tabulated votes)….Doesn’t this prove fraud? If the new count is about the same, I think we have to accept the outcome.

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      1. i don’t see how it couldn’t affect ALL the races…there’s only one voter sheet–so if the vote was mixed in with already tabulated votes and wasn’t counted–what makes anyone think it was counted for another race?

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        1. Hell, we’d get in trouble if we wore the wrong color shirt!!! And God forbid you go outside and not put your hat on! Or forget to salute an officer! Or our hair was too long. Or…..well, you get the picture!

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  33. “Dr. Jay Bhattacharya says he “strongly” suspects federal government directed Twitter to blacklist his account — The Stanford professor responds to Twitter’s secret censorship of his account.”
    By Tom Parker
    Posted 6:05 pm

    EXCERPT: “Stanford University Medical School professor and epidemiologist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has responded to the bombshell revelation that Twitter secretly blacklisted his account by suggesting that the federal government could have been pulling the strings of this censorship.

    “I suspect very strongly that there was some government direction of this,” Bhattacharya said during an interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham. ”

    Bhattacharya continued by discussing the findings from a Biden administration-social media censorship collusion lawsuit that he’s involved in.”

    https://reclaimthenet.org/jay-bhattacharya-government-twitter-blacklist/

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  34. From ReclaimTheNet:

    Issue: December 9, 2022
    “Judge fast-tracks Rumble’s lawsuit against New York’s online censorship law — The preliminary hearing is now December 19th.”
    By Christina Maas
    Posted 2:10 pm
    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “New York State lawmakers passed a law requiring online platforms to address “hateful” content posted by users. Last week, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) teamed up with Rumble and filed a lawsuit challenging the law, which took effect on December 3. A federal judge has fast-tracked the briefing and set a teleconference for December 19.

    FIRE teamed up with Rumble, Locals, and First Amendment advocate and blogger Eugene Volokh to challenge the controversial law that requires platforms to police what lawmakers deem “hateful” content. The law was introduced in response to the racially-motivated mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, in May.

    The law requires online platforms to police speech, including any speech considered “vilifying” or “humiliating” to someone based on protected characteristics like religion, race, or gender. Platforms are also required to create a reporting system allowing users to report content, and the platforms must address each complaint.

    Failure to comply with the law results in daily fines of up to $1,000 per day. The fine might not be much for Big Tech platforms like YouTube and Facebook. However, the law’s definition of “social media networks” is so broad that it covers a wide range of platforms, apps, sites, and forums.

    Another issue is the broad definition of “hateful” speech. “Hateful” is subjective, depending on who’s viewing the content. According to FIRE, the mass shooting in Buffalo does not justify cracking down on free speech online.

    “What happened in Buffalo broke the nation’s heart, and the impulse to take action is understandable,” said FIRE’s senior attorney Jay Diaz in a press statement.

    “But violating expressive rights online won’t make us safer.”

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  35. Issue: December 9, 2022
    “Iran plans Trudeau tactics to freeze bank accounts of women who refuse to wear hijab — The technique was popularized by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau against civil liberties protesters.”
    By Cindy Harper
    Posted 11:55 am

    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ ReclaimTheNet: “A member of the Cultural Commission of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, Hossein Jalali, told the media that the government was planning to punish women who refuse to wear hijabs (headscarves) in public by freezing their bank accounts. The government’s plans are mirroring a technique used by Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to suppress civil liberties protesters.

    Jalali said that “unveiled persons” would get a text message telling them to respect the law, then enter a “warning phase,” and eventually have their bank accounts frozen. “In the third stage, the bank account of the unveiled person may be frozen,” Jalali said.

    He did not explain what he meant by “warning stage.” But he hinted that morality police would not be involved. Other public figures said surveillance cameras equipped with artificial intelligence would be used to identify offenders.

    There have been protests in Iran against the hijab law since September, after the death of Mahsa Amini following her arrest for not wearing a hijab.

    The threat of freezing bank accounts is the same as what happened in Canada after Trudeau’s government invoked the Emergencies Act to quash the Freedom Convoy protests. Many of those who participated in or supported the protests had their bank accounts frozen.

    The threat of having bank accounts frozen to comply with the law highlights the 🛡 risks of CBDCs. In Nigeria, for example, the government banned ATM withdrawals of more than $4,500 to force people to use the 🛡 unpopular CBDC, the eNaira.”

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          1. Well, it’s not backwoods, per se, but it certainly is rural. I live on the SE end of town – we only have a pop of around 1K – my view to the south is mostly fields. This is an aerial view from many years ago. My place is off-pic to the right and south. I think the 4K is how many feet up the drone was flying ’cause I highly doubt there were ever 4K people living here! The large building to the right of center is the high school – across the street on the back is the elementary school, with the football field and baseball field behind it. Across the street is the pool in the park, where there are 3 spaces for camping – free camping!

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  38. from wolf’s

    Aubergine
    AubergineOnline
    Coyote
    December 10, 2022 09:34

    John Rich, putting his money where his mouth is:

    “Singer and songwriter John Rich has just announced a new financial bank to fight against cancel culture.

    He tweeted an article about the new bank, named Old Glory Bank, which is being led by Rich, Dr. Ben Carson and Larry Elder.”

    https://therightscoop.com/singer-john-rich-announces-creation-of-new-financial-bank-to-fight-against-cancel-culture/

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  40. Good (barely still) Morning, Miss Pat! Love this open – love homemade crafts and Christmas gifts – gag gifts included.

    Our family had a rubber chicken that got passed back and forth for years, complete in a box of feathers.

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  41. now i wonder if ultra maggot was shown this way before it ever came out…
    just like his we built the most effective voter fraud system…he leaks things without meaning to

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  47. so we got a beautiful tree…
    leaving the tree farm I spotted a BALD EAGLE in the trees above the river. we pulled over and watched it for about 5 minutes till it swooped down and out of view–fishing, perhaps???
    so COOL!!!

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  49. in the light of the treatment the 1/6 prisoners are getting, I am disinclined to feel sorry for these people. don’t want to eat? then you starve and cost the taxpayers less money.
    entire article
    Dozens of inmates in a Nevada state prison have engaged in one of the lone forms of peaceful protest available to those behind bars: a hunger strike.

    According to reports, 19 inmates at the Ely State Prison, a maximum-security facility located about four hours north of Las Vegas, have refused all food since December 1, claiming that they have suffered under disciplinary policies that have since become abusive. The inmates have been subjected to “de facto solitary confinement,” excessive lockdowns, and concurrent disciplinary sanctions that impose unreasonable burdens, according to a so-called prisoners’ rights group known as Return Strong.

    On its website, Return Strong claims to be “committed to deconstructing the prison industrial complex by unapologetically fighting to center folx of color and people experiencing poverty in all phases of the criminal legal and correctional systems.”

    Despite Return Strong’s accusation of systemic abuse, the Nevada Department of Corrections stated that most of the Ely inmates involved in the strike object to the “food portions being served” by a new food vendor, Aramark Correctional Services, and that only some object to “conditions of confinement, property issues and disciplinary sanctions.”

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    By all accounts, 39 Ely inmates participated in the hunger strike when it first began on December 1. As of Friday, that number has dwindled to 24, the AP reports, though exact participation is difficult to gauge since some inmates have consumed food on certain days but then resumed their strike on other days, Fox News reports. NDOC confirmed that it has continued to provide food to all striking inmates on a daily basis and that it “is working to resolve this matter.”

    Though the exact number of strike adherents is unknown and their individual grievances vary, NDOC officials claim they have taken steps to address the issues overall. “The NDOC is auditing portion sizes at all facilities throughout the state and reviewing the contract with the current food vendor,” a statement from NDOC said. “Additional complaints are also under review.”

    So far, the complaint regarding concurrent disciplinary sanctions has already been addressed. William Gittere, the acting director of the Nevada prison system, confirmed that, as of Friday, inmates can be subjected to only one sanction at a time, a change he described as “significant.” Examples of such sanctions include the loss of phone or commissary privileges.

    Aramark Correctional Services ran afoul of the Michigan Department of Corrections in 2014, when some Michigan inmates conducted a hunger strike to protest various issues with the food, including unapproved meal substitutions and alleged worker misconduct. One report even claimed that a kitchen employee had ordered food contaminated by rodents be served to the prisoners. MDOC ultimately terminated its contract with Aramark more than a year early. Aramark did not return AP’s request for comment regarding the strike in Nevada.

    Gittere became the acting director of the Nevada prison system when the previous NDOC director, Charles Daniels, stepped down after a murderer managed to escape from a facility just outside Las Vegas back in September. The murderer was ultimately re-apprehended and returned to prison.

    https://www.theblaze.com/news/19-max-security-prisoners-stage-hunger-strike-to-protest-alleged-abuses-haven-t-eaten-since-december-1

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