Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Saturday, January 15, 2011

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!


Friday, January 14, 2011

Christmas Wrap Up: Baby's First Christmas

So...I know I started this blog AFTER Christmas, but I was just looking through all our Christmas pics, and there are just too many good ones not to share a few!  So, get ready for a few Christmas-y posts to come :)

Lucas' favorite things about his first Christmas: ribbon, paper, and stickers, snow, and jingle bells!

 This was the only ornament Lucas really bothered on the tree...the jingle bell ball!

 Caught red handed trying to open a present...darned sticky labels!

 Looking like a little man on his way to Christmas Eve service.

 Papa helping me read my new book from Santa

 My first stocking: cars, books, and shakers!

 Playing cards with mom. (I love this pic b/c I have one just like it of me and my grandmother when I was just about Lucas' age or a little older).

 Christmas Eve

 Enough of this present stuff...when do we EAT??? (Thanks, Becky and Jeremy for the bib!)

Family picture (on the couch this year since we were recovering from the stomach bug!)