Tag Archives: Christmas

salt dough ornaments

Before Christmas, we did a little present making. I saw this salt dough ornament pin and thought it was something that Jude could make for the family. So we mixed up the dough (1/2 c water, 1/2 c table salt – NOT kosher! and 1 c flour), rolled it out and got to cutting out [...]

Merry {early} Christmas

From our family to yours. As the Christmas season often goes, we’ve been pretty busy so I probably won’t be posting again until sometime after Christmas. Enjoy this season, read a few good holiday reads (my picks: incarnation and present over perfect by two of my favorite writers), and most importantly choose love and rest and [...]

Christmas decor

Leave it to pinterest to inspire me to get some Christmas decorations going. I found this free holiday subway art, printed it at Costco (so cheap!) and stuck it in a 1/2 price frame from hobby lobby. Slowly but surely, our modern Christmas stash is growing. Something else we typically lack on our door is [...]

another ‘sewcial’ weekend: winter 2011

Love these little weekend getaways. Nothing recharges me the way hanging out, relaxing and sewing seems to. This is the third time we have been able to get away and craft this year (read about the first and second times). We revisited the Wimberly Quilt Ranch once more and Amanda from My Sewcial Hour wrote [...]

Merry Christmas from Blogland

The holiday hubbub has begun for us, enjoying extended time with our family and friends, so blogging will be sparse for a bit. I know you understand and are likely doing the same. So from our family to yours, we hope your Christmas is a time to reflect on true peace and joy while spending [...]

Christmas Cards and Bunting

Every year I don’t know what to do with all the Christmas cards that we receive. I used to set them all up on the table behind our sofa, but Jude takes great delight in knocking everything down that sits on that table. So I set out looking for an inexpensive way to display our [...]

SMS Giveaway Day

::Comments are closed.:: Are you guys tired of giveaways yet? (Could that even be possible?) Just when you thought they were over I decide to spring this one on you. After all 12 Days of Handmade Holidays, I didn’t get to give you guys something that I made because of the generosity of crafters that [...]