Christmas Countdown

I am creating this blog as a Challenge to myself to see how many of these adorable projects that I want to do and see if I will really attempt and complete these  before Christmas gets here.

After perusing Pinterest for hours!   You know you do it too!  How can you not spend hours on Pinterest?  Anyway, I found soo many things I would like to make for the Holiday Season.  All the cute Thanksgiving items and Christmas being right around the corner makes me so anxious to get started. 









A sweet friend asked me to do some stockings for her and her lovely family and after lots of research I think I have found the ones I want to tackle. I am hoping they turn out as cute as these are.

If you would like to try them click on the link Burlap and Plaid stockings from Confessions of a Plate Addict. They are so cute and I intend to monogram their initials on them.

Cute little Burlap bags maybe for my grandson's teachers' gifts.  Yes!  I have gone a little burlap mad this year.  I am so in love with the old fashioned look and feel of burlap.  Go over to  Tater Tots and Jello blog spot for the tutorial Burlap bags.















I just love love this wreath.  It would be gorgeous on my front door.  It has the rustic vintage look I am going for this year. And, it is Burlap!  Check out the other ones on this site.  They are gorgeous! Burlap Wreath Created Twists Blog spot.  If I can't make this one I can always order one here.












I really want to do a flag similar to this one and add my house number on it instead of the est. number.  I have made several flags, but not one for my self.  Maybe I could use fabric to match the door wreath and add a bow.  I am loving the burlap theme.  Can you tell?





This is the cutest little tree I have ever seen and yes is keeping with my Burlap theme this year. 
Great tutorial here Burlap Christmas Tree

Craft Mania

Every Sunday we get together as a family and have dinner.  Good "ole fashion" dinner at Grandma's house.  A complete home cooked meal.  We try to spend one day together as a family despite our busy weekly schedules.  I must admit I love it.  This past Sunday the girls and I dove into crafts.  We spent the entire day working on Kate's list of "wanna dos"!


For thanksgiving gifts for Brody's teacher we made candy jars with embroidered labels on them.  I think they turned out really cute.  I had not tried the "in the hoop" patterns before and I must admit they are addictive.  I want to make more!!  Maybe, I will do some in Christmas designs for gifts. 




Another on her list of to dos was gifts to take to Michigan for Thanksgiving.  So, we made some garden flags for Matt's mom and sister in law.  I must admit I am having fun making these.  They are so easy and so cute to do.  The imagination runs wild with these.  Plan on seeing more flags to come!
I really wish I could do larger than 5 X 7 on my embroidery machine, but alas I will just have to design around that.  I think these turned out cute. 

We stayed in the craft room pretty much all day, with the exception of the time we took to eat dinner and then back in there we went.  Kate was having so much fun that she was asking the question "What can we make now?".   I knew the crafting bug would hit her eventually.  It happens to the best of us! .  She decided she wanted to make a Clemson shirt for Brody and I let her go completely on her own.  She did this entire shirt all by herself with no help from Mom.  I am thoroughly impressed.  It is definitely better than my first project and boy was Brody excited!

Very crafty Halloween

Well, I must say I think my girls are getting into the whole craft craze.  It's so funny to see necessity force you to do something that eventually turns into a hobby you enjoy.  My oldest has always been a crafty, artsy person and even graduated college with an Art degree, but my middle child never had time for artsy stuff.  That is, until her boys were born and now she has discovered how much fun it can be and how happy it makes her boys.












This Halloween both girls met at my house and I came home from work to find them engulfed in fabric, thread and sewing machines.  They were having so much fun.  And, the best part about all this crafting, laughing and total disaster of my craft room resulted in the cutest costumes and Halloween bags for my two grandsons.

And, of course Mimi and Papa enjoyed being able to trick or treat with them! What cuties they are!

 

Fall

In honor of Fall, Halloween, and Thanksgiving I am working on shirts for the boys.  Finished Brody's Harvest shirt for school and Levi's Halloween shirt.  I think they are so cute. 

Got Brody's Halloween shirt finished only to end up on the very last part the machine decides to mess up.  Alas, once again I have to do an entire other shirt.  I can not tell you how many times that has happened to me.  One of these days I am going to buy me a bigger and better embroidery machine. 

I was so surprised to come home and find both girls in the craft room busily working away on a couple of projects.  Kate even attempted the embroidery machine by herself and I just had to share their endeavors with you. 

Lindsey's pocket shirt really turned out cute.  It is always so much fun to get in the craft room with both the girls and work on this project or that project.  We have lots of fun.  The two of them are so talented when they want to be.

NEW BABY?

I find myself constantly working on a new baby set for this person or that person.  More times than I can count one of my daughters' friends is having a baby.  "Mom can you make me a gift for a baby shower?"!  Of course I am more than glad to do so.

 These are a few of the sets I have made along the way.  No, I did not post every pic of every set I have made.  Just a few to give you a taste.

 

History of Crafting

I started crafting about thirty years ago.  My husband and I married in 1980 while he was still in school.  Of course that meant we had little money and Christmas and birthdays were always a chore.  That my dear friends is why I started crafting.  I only wish looking back that I had pictures of all the crafts I made and attempted.  How cool would that be?  At least now since I own a smart phone and taking pics is so easy that I take pics of every new craft or ones I really like.  It's nice to have a blog to have a place to post them.  I know everyone on Facebook will be glad I have a different outlet now for my crafting obsession!

OH BABY!

Crochet has always been my first love of crafting!  The first time was in 1975 in middle school.  Boy it is nice to know I have improved since then and here are some of the baby hats I have enjoyed making.  How fun are these?  And how darn cute are these babies?

Through the years I began crafting other things and among those were baby things.  I love making things for all the new babies being born.  I just wish I had pics of the thousands of baby blankets I have crocheted.  Alas, at least I started saving some of the cute little sets I have made. 


Cute little dresses just like what I wore as a child.  I love them and really need to get back to making them since I have a grand-daughter now!

Baby Wipe cases became very popular for awhile and I just had to make them along with the burp cloths to go with them.  As always there are some great inspiration on Pinterest.  Like everyone else I jumped on the bandwagon and began making them.