It's December!

And you know what that means! It's time to decorate! Uriah dragged our holiday decorations out of the attic today and I couldn't wait to start decking the halls! We still haven't put our tree up but while I was waiting, I wrapped some picture frames in paper and put bows on them! I thought it was a very easy (and inexpensive) way to decorate! I just did a few so it's not overboard. Here's the (semi)finished project!

You can see a couple of our past Christmas cards (one in a frame and one on the top right of the photo). We actually went and picked up all of our supplies today for THIS year's card. We're shooting that tomorrow so I guess you'll all see that soon enough :-)

Merry Happy Y'all!

Happy New Year!

Hello there internet and welcome to the year 2011!

So, let's re-cap Christmastime. I gave my apron-gifts to their intended recipients and they were well recieved! I don't think anyone could believe that I made them (which was kind of flattering and a little insulting... I mean, I'm pretty handy. Don't people know that? haha). 

So anyway, here are some pictures of family members enjoying opening their hand-made-with-love gifts!



My grandma and Aunt! Grandma loves birds and my Aunt has a cow-themed kitchen!



It may seem odd to have given my brother an apron but, he actually requested one. His has wizards because I couldn't find anything space-related.

My mother-in-law was scared to use the pot-holders on Christmas day because she didn't want to get them dirty. Haha. I assured her that they were washable and she gave it.

Uriah's Aunt (pictured) and Grandmother got the same one. I wasn't there to witness this (thanks a lot sickness), but I heard they love them.

Aunt Gigi models hers!

So, there you have it folks, this is what we had been waiting for!

More to come on all of my fabulous Christmas gifts that I recieved (most of them involving sewing and baking/cooking... such a good little housewife I am going to become)

Festive!

When Uriah and I shot our Christmas Card, we used a few yards of christmas fabric as a background. Well, I couldn't just fold it up and never look at it again so, I decided to make an apron (I know, I know, you're shocked). I decided to try to make a "butcher-style" apron to switch it up a bit sooo I made myself a pattern and got started.

For some reason, this apron gave me a super hard time but I got it together after a while. It's pretty but the proportions seem a little off. It's very long and the pocket is in a bit of an awkward place but, it'll do the trick of keeping me realatively clean while I'm baking all of those cookies for my mom's party. :-)

This picture really sucks. I should totally stop using my iPhone when I have multiple professional cameras at my disposal

This only used up 1/3 of the fabric that we have leftover so, I see a few more tries in my future.

Deck the Halls!

With home-made adorable-ness made with scrap fabric!! Wahoo!

This is actually twice as long but, I couldn't find a place that I could hang it so I just did the half. Please ignore the lingering Halloween decoration... we are slow to put stuff away around here.

I found this little project while searching the interwebs for things to do.

It's HERE at a fabulous little blog that I've found called MaggieMakes.

She posts lots of tutorials and inspires lots of craftiness. She also has a flickr page so, you can see lots of photos of all of her projects.

Just so you do not think I'm decorating far too early for Christmas, I have to admit that I took down the stars after 24 hours of appreciating my handiwork.

PS- I also made that "leaf art" in the frames