Merry Christmas!

 

The super cute half dozen and I wanted to take a second to wish you a Merry Christmas!  I truly hope you all have a happy holiday filled with family, friends, chocolate, lots and lots of eggnog, and light traffic with dry roads.

See you next week!

Old school

I’m 98% done with Christmas this year and have been for a month.  Don’t you just want to hit me now?  It feels sooo good but there are a few things left I really want to make.  Just a few small crafty things for special people on my list.  I can’t do all store bought or my soul will shrivel and die.   In case I don’t get them done I scrounged up a list of things from Etsy that are along the same lines as one  of the gifts on my list to make.

 

Pictures are linked to their item listings.  I don’t know these sellers or stores so I can’t recommend them, I picked items I liked and linked away willy nilly.  Enjoy!

I would show off my other gift idea but the other person reads my blog and will know it’s for them.   Dang you caring family members who listen to what I have to say twice!  It’s going to be so fun to make and I can’t wait to gift it, but first I have to get started.  I’m really bad at keeping presents a secret so I have to leave one clue or I’ll explode… it involves wood but not really.  I feel better now.

We’re off to take the kids to see Tangled.  All of 6 of them.  It will be Kennedy’s first theatre experience and I’m a little scared.  She loves movies and loves “Plincesses” but I’m not expecting much since she is 2.  Should be interesting…

Have a fantastic Friday and fun weekend!

Fake it till you make it

Sorry it’s been a while since my last post.  Jake and I are trying to work out a couple issues and my days are over before I even start them.  Newborns kind of put a damper on craft stuff.  Not that I’m complaining, there’s no where I need to be or want to be more right now that parked in a rocking chair every waking second with this handsome little man…

 

And his cheater quilt I made to bring him home in.  I love that it looks like a 100% handmade patchwork baby quilt- but it’s not.  I bought the patchwork fabric already patched by the yard.  Ingenious stuff.  Thank you Grandma’s Attic!

 

   

I added a bit of cotton batting and threw on some awesome grey Swiss dot fabric for backing.  I even quilted it a little.  I freehanded swirls in each corner of the patchwork to keep the sandwich together.  See, I quilted sort of.   

 

 

I have a couple other quilts and projects ready to make for the little tyke but for right now it’s boxed dinners and cheater quilts. 

I was going to look like super mom and wow the masses with all my tutorials, features, and scheduled posts I saved and stockpiled to share with you while I was occupied with mini me but the pre-baby computer crash put the kybosh to my master plan.  Here’s the revised post computer death plan.  If I put off my hygiene and bathroom breaks for another day I might be able to crank out a stocking stuffer idea or two to share soon.  Just keeping it real folks, because I have to now  ;).

Have a fantastic Wednesday!