Another great way to fight the winter blues it to keep busy nurturing your creative side.

Craft materials don’t have to cost a fortune or come from a store.  Cut up old clothes to make a quilt or add texture to a scrap book.  Magazines, junk mail, saved gift wrap, twine, yarn, cardboard, can all work great for making cards or adding color to a photo album.

Did you buy clementines in a wood crate at the grocery store?  A little paint and decoupage, and you can make a great bin for storing craft supplies.

Round up your yarn scraps and make a lap blanket or a pair of slippers.

Make a rag rug or a draft stopper using old clothes or fabric scraps.

Make paperweights out of rocks and old crayons, or a bracelet from a recycled soda bottle and some felt.  The felt you use can be recycled soda bottle felt.