This stuff is just lovely! I bought it because I was curious and so glad I did because I love it. So soft and not too stretchy, beautiful color. I'm going to use it in Phoebe's Teagan White quilt but I want more. This stuff would make the most wonderful stuffed toys. I need all these colors.
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The pom pom garland from the Winter decorations bin didn't quite make it up this year. Instead it's been piled up on my buffet to be a pom pom forest. That's cute too. It's sorta making me batty because I'd envisioned this post holiday, sleek minimalist new year's thing going on in my house after the Christmas bins went to the attic. But that never really works with Phoebe around. Things are only interesting to her if they are in the middle of the living room/dining room. And at least they are cheerful which is nice. I'm working on all sorts of "fun" January projects - eating healthy, budget planning, goal making in general. The type of things from which I need constant distraction.
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Some projects are difficult. Project Life is really hard for me. The one bazillion decisions involved... picking photos, placement, embellishment, journaling, etc. I can't tackle it if anyone else is in the house, if I have any errands or interruptions, nothing. I need big empty chunks of time because it's so challenging for me.
Painting peg people on the other hand, way too easy. Especially since I still haven't cleaned them up from Christmas. They're right here on the dining room table with all the paint and the felt and the floss. It's out of my control.
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Zero degrees + inches of snow + a new cold = day spent on couch crocheting myself this scarf. Ready for the subzero temps!
from my stash of sheepish yarn and this stitch, catherine's wheel
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Oscar was feeling left out so I made him this fellow. Then he went back to his video games.
And I made this gal inspired by this tourist scarf I've hanging in my craft room.
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Last year for Christmas I bought Phoebe the Klutz Clay Charms
Phoebe made this Grandma to go with the Little Red Riding Hood and Wolf from the book.
And here are Hansel and Gretel from the book. I added some embroidery to the felt outfits.
Fairy Godmother I came up with at Phoebe's request. She wanted her hair in a bun. It's sorta bun-like. I just glued a blob of wool roving on her head and then futzed with it after it had dried and sewed it in place. Funny how the tiny dab sof paint for the face relay so much character. I think she needs a bit of an upward turn on her mouth blob. She needs to be cheerier.
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They all came down this weekend and then, it snowed! Finally we get our Christmas snow. I ran around and took a bunch of photos before it all came down. We had a very gray December so I didn't post a lot of festivness actually during the season. I know you're all drinking kale smoothies right now and not in holiday mood but just real quick...
This year I decided we were a little tree heavy upstairs and lacking in the basement so I repurposed the "handmade tree" (artificial tree we have up in the family room where we hang lots of handmade ornaments) into the "nerd tree" to go downstairs with work-from-home Tim and near Oscar's xbox station. We gathered all our nerdy sci fi/toy ornaments (mostly robots) and then bought a few more (video game/star wars). Excited to have another tree to collect for.
New to the tree this year were a little ceramic bear and a Suzy Ultman matryoshka doll from Crate and Barrel and this little felt sequined star from Macy's. I think that was it. I had my eye on a few other things but nothing made it til after xmas sales. I need to stop thinking that's going to work for me. There was a lot of cute stuff at Target that I didn't really need so I thought I'd pick up after holiday. All gone. And of course now I'm convinced I needed it!
The white bottle brush trees went up with the gingerbread houses again this year. I love the white against the white wall. The kids did a great job on the houses again this year and I'm still happy with my decision to never try to make gingerbread houses from scratch. The premade kits keep everyone happy.
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I couldn't decide if I was sending out cards this year. I was determined this year to simplify the holiday and not stress myself or anyone else out. But what's the wheat and the chaff with Christmas? It's hard to say. I decided late in the game that cards had to stay so I sat the kids in front of the tree when they walked in the door from school, put the flash on the camera and took 18 photos then I picked literally the first design that popped out at me at snapfish and ordered these cards. They turned out really cute. I love when a fast decision works out.
I'm organizing photos now to start printing for my December Project Life album. I think this year's entry will be slimmer than those in the past. Things I did dial back... outings, photo ops, gift buying. I'm looking forward to going back over the last month and journaling our holiday. Sort of like my exit interview. No matter how hard I try to not feel like the Sr Project Manager in charge of special events I can't kick that feeling every Christmas. How'd I do? Childhood magic achieved? Wish I could get a grade and some notes/feedback.
I think I'll just give myself a xmas bonus and assume I did awesome!
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