Better Late than Never?

For the past three years, I meant to start making all handmade Christmas presents when it looks like this:

But for the past three years, I begin making all handmade Christmas presents when it looks like this:

This year, I started my handmades the day I took that picture.  Which just happens to be today.  Help.

So far (and because everyone I'm making these gifts for reads this blog, I must be very vague until the great after-Christmas unveiling), I've gathered some materials.  And...  I turned these antique silver spoons

into these:

I also eagerly await a certain adorable pattern from a certain adorable friend to make something adorable out of these:

I will, however, spill the beans (so punny, I tell you!) about one gift repeat (for different people, though).  Vanilla extract!  Get it?  Vanilla beans? Spill the beans?  Funny + pun = punny?  No?
Movingrightalong.

According to the check-out guy, I bought "the good stuff."  Good.  Baked goods with this should be... good then.  Want to make some for that special foodie in your life?  C'est très simple.  Go here for instructions.

And that's all I can tell you for now.

Are you making handmades this year?  What?  What?  Do tell, won't you?

I'm sharing this at Simple Lives Thursday.