Christmas Ornaments in March?
A few years ago I started participating in the Christmas Unswap thread on Craftster. The challenge was to make at least one Christmas gift a month to the theme of that month, knitting sewing, etc. This year I kind of took over the thread, because the original poster has disappeared off of the site.
So of course I'm finishing my first Christmas project in March and not January!
January's theme is ornaments, and when I started participating in the thread, I began a tradition of giving every household in my immediate family an ornament. Since I'm married now, this ornament making process has expanded.
This is a Wee Wonderfuls pattern that I found in Cutting Edge Winter 2006. There are twelve little ornaments here! I've been working on them slowly over the past couple of weeks. Embroidering the faces, sewing the bodies, stuffing, more sewing and finally the jingle bells at the top. Aren't they cute?
The pattern had three different shapes. I like the skinny, curvy tear droppy one the best. I'm so happy with the fabrics too! I had everything already on hand except for the jingle bells which cost me fifty cents. And that PAISLEY fabric! That was a present from Rosa which sat skeptically peaking at me from my fabric shelf for a while. "Hi, I'm kinda cool, but kinda ugly at the same time. Use me...no not for that...no not for that...for the ORNAMENTS silly!" (Wow - fabric speaking in a blog post, I've reached a new low of crafting insanity)
In other news the plague is upon this house! Matt and I are both really sick. I knew it was coming. I've pretty much escaped a good cold all winter and this one is making up for it. BLEH! I was cheered today, however, by the arrival of these:
NEW SHOES! The Eleanor Grosch Keds I've been coveting for a long time, but the Earth Mirage boots were a bit of a splurge. I decided that I was going to use part of the money that I made during the vacation program towards decent winter boots. Originally I was going to get fake Uggs, but I decided to look around a little more and I fell in love with these. I got both pairs of shoes via Zappos and they were doing a free overnight shipping promo. Niiiiiice. These boots are soooooo soft and fuzzy on the inside. I'm in love!
So of course I'm finishing my first Christmas project in March and not January!
January's theme is ornaments, and when I started participating in the thread, I began a tradition of giving every household in my immediate family an ornament. Since I'm married now, this ornament making process has expanded.
This is a Wee Wonderfuls pattern that I found in Cutting Edge Winter 2006. There are twelve little ornaments here! I've been working on them slowly over the past couple of weeks. Embroidering the faces, sewing the bodies, stuffing, more sewing and finally the jingle bells at the top. Aren't they cute?
The pattern had three different shapes. I like the skinny, curvy tear droppy one the best. I'm so happy with the fabrics too! I had everything already on hand except for the jingle bells which cost me fifty cents. And that PAISLEY fabric! That was a present from Rosa which sat skeptically peaking at me from my fabric shelf for a while. "Hi, I'm kinda cool, but kinda ugly at the same time. Use me...no not for that...no not for that...for the ORNAMENTS silly!" (Wow - fabric speaking in a blog post, I've reached a new low of crafting insanity)
In other news the plague is upon this house! Matt and I are both really sick. I knew it was coming. I've pretty much escaped a good cold all winter and this one is making up for it. BLEH! I was cheered today, however, by the arrival of these:
NEW SHOES! The Eleanor Grosch Keds I've been coveting for a long time, but the Earth Mirage boots were a bit of a splurge. I decided that I was going to use part of the money that I made during the vacation program towards decent winter boots. Originally I was going to get fake Uggs, but I decided to look around a little more and I fell in love with these. I got both pairs of shoes via Zappos and they were doing a free overnight shipping promo. Niiiiiice. These boots are soooooo soft and fuzzy on the inside. I'm in love!
posted by Geek+Nerd at 9:03 PM
3 Comments:
They're so cute!
Those ornaments are so cute! I love their little faces! Cute shoes too! Hope you guys feel better!
those ornaments are great! how fun to make xmas presents all year long. I'm actually working on an xmas present too.
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