Christmas Wrap Up: Crafting

I love Christmas decorations.  It's kind of an obsession. (no one's fault in particular...MARSHA BRESSLER!) Since we have only been in the house for three Christmases, I am still at the beginning of the process of collecting all the decorations I would someday like to have. The first year, it was pretty much just getting stuff for the tree (an 8 ft. prelit one that the previous owners of the house just LEFT in the attic for us...thank you very much!). Last year, I did the mantle and entertainment center...I would put pictures of those, but they are currently trapped on our desktop with the broken mother board.  Super. This year, I got to do a few more "crafty" things, like these:



These hung in the master bath. I love how shiny they were, but next year I want to add bows or something at the top to really finish them off. I also need to paint the backs so the wood doesn't show in the mirror.



Close up of the glitter!



I am proud of this one...I bought some alphabet blocks at a consignment sale back in the summer. They came in ziplocks, so I needed somewhere to keep them. I sewed this reversible back out of scrap fabric I found at JoAnn's.  Super cute!  And very useful so far!



My mom also helped me with a very special project...Lucas' first stocking. For as long as I can remember, my sister and I had these felt stockings that were hand sewn by my mom and grandmother. We were soooo sad when we finally had to replace them a few years ago. So, one of the first things I wanted to do was make one for Lucas. Mom and I started when I went to visit in October, and I finally finished a couple of weeks before Christmas (not in time to get it embroidered with his name, but, still...) Here is our masterpiece:

I enjoyed this little Buscilla kit a lot. So much, that I bought some little snowmen to sew for Lucas' bathroom mirror.  There were six of them, but I only have a pic of this one:

My crafty Christmas post wouldn't be complete without a shout out to my sister-in-law Nancy, who made these AWESOME fabric blocks for Lucas. They match the quilt that she made him for his baptism gift. I love them...next time we have a kid, he or she is getting a LONG name so we have even more cute blocks!