I like making my own Christmas Crackers! I like being able to get the colour that I want to match the rest of the table as I rarely got for the traditional colours. I also like to be able to pop my own "surprises" in the crackers instead of getting a piece of plastic rubbish that just get trashed immediately. Some years I get excited and go all out with my crackers- other years, its pretty basic and laid back. Over the years I have developed some short cuts (and long cuts) for making crackers and thought I would share them with you. Here's what I do... This year I am going for a lavender and mint colour scheme and I can not find any crackers in those colours. I thought about white or silver for a while and then when I looked through the various papers I had in my craft room - and I found the lavender! The white Fleur-de-lys pattern actually came from the wrapping from a bunch of flowers that I had saved. I cut the plastic up into strips that happened