Rice Warmers

This past week and a half, my little brother came to visit me. Every time I spend time with him, I realize more and more how alike the two of us are. He's such a fun guy to be around, super generous, and my husband and I were in total awe of how much he loved our son. He's just an incredible person and I'm glad to call him my brother.

Christmas is coming up and my family does this gift exchange. I drew his name. I've been trying hard to come up with something that he'd like that isn't a lame thing. Where he lives, his little "apartment" has no heating and has brick all over the place (at least these are the rumors I hear). I stumbled upon this site via Pinterest and absolutely loved the foot warmers.

However, when I went to look for the site again, I couldn't find it. I guess that's what I get for having WAY TOO MANY pins on Pinterest. I have tons of boards too. Not to brag. It's not nice to brag about wasting time... or is it wasting time?

Well, I had to work from memory and kind of make things up as I went along. I believe that I used a half yard of fabric, which I got on sale at Hobby Lobby. I spent $3.79. Just thought I'd share the price... I was pretty proud of it. Out of this half yard, I made the foot warmer:

But I also made a neck warmer, a warmer for the back, and also some hands/feet ones. As you can see, these weren't filled with rice yet. I was super conscious about the weight limit that his bags would have to be at for him to fly with it. I only filled his foot warmer. If I didn't worry so much about the weight, that would have received a few more cups of rice.

I hear (haven't tried this YET) that if you stick these in the freezer, you can get cold packs. Not the kind that would be good if you had an injury, but the "OMG it's so hot outside, I need to cool down!" kind. This is the reason for the hand/foot warmers.

SO there you go, $3.79 for the fabric and about 50 cents per pound of rice. Makes this a very cheap gift. Depending on how motivated I am to sit down and make multiples of these, everyone's getting them for Christmas! Yay for warm tootsies!