I just did my first Holiday Blog makeover – go check it out on Design Chicky!
How Many??
November 10, 2008 By
Only 45 days til Christmas? Holy Moly!
I have to admit though, that I love listening to Christmas music right now – so many of the gifts I have been giving lately I make, so the music keeps me in a holiday mood while I am sewing, or baking. By the time Christmas actually comes, I am Kris Kringle incarnate, and on December 26th, I crash…HARD.
I am almost done with my Thanksgiving menu – I have some classics – Green Bean Casserole, homemade rolls, Jello salad…as soon as I get the menu pinned down exactly, I will post it here with recipes. I am also trying pumpkin pie with pumpkin I got from a real live pumpkin – anyone have any experience with that? Is it better, worse?
One of the gifts I am making are the bird ornaments pictured above – that isn’t mine though – it’s from the tutorial, which can be found at Sunshine’s Creations. I wil be attaching one of the birds to all of my gifts, and cookie packages. I am making as many gifts as I can, and since I have my fancy shmancy camera now (I love it SO much I got one of my friends to buy one too!), I will be taking a bunch of pictures as I make progress. I have a couple of quilts to finish, a bunch of jammie pants to make, aprons of course, and who knows what else!
If you are feeling the crafty bug this year, check out 30 days of Handmade Holidays over at Sew Mama Sew – there are tons of tutorials for all skill levels!
Stories in hand…
October 20, 2008 By
Scrapbooking is one craft that I have never been able to get into – whether it’s the temptation to buy all the way cute accessories or just the idea of having writers block while trying to document my families stories I’m not sure, but I am going to change that next month! I’m SO excited too!
Jessica Sprague is one of those sites I just love to lurk on – so much inspiration not just for the scrapbooker but the photographer as well. I have always wanted to take one of her classes, but it just hasn’t been in the budget – so when I saw that this class was free, I jumped all over it – and this is the best type of class – learning HOW to capture the memories and stories, not just what to do with them once you have them in mind. (did that even make any sense?)
I find that often happens with blogging too - I will be out somewhere and a SCATHINGLY brilliant idea hits me and I think “Ooh – I HAVE to blog about that” (don’t tell me it hasn’t happened to you…please? 
) , and the minute I sit down to write, it doesn’t seem NEARLY as cool as I originally thought, that is if I can even remember what it was to begin with.
I hope you’ll think about signing up for this class – if for no other reason than to give me someone to pass notes to during class or sit with at lunch – I’ll bring snacks! 
