You're welcome.
For the rest of us...
Folks, this is a post about Christmas in Juuuuuuuuuuuly!!! Can you handle it?! :) I love the holiday season. L-O-V-E, love it! Mid-September through the first of January just seems so effing magical to me. I love the change of seasons, I love watching the leaves on the trees outside my windows burst into different colors and when they fall, I love crunching through them while wearing jeans and a hoodie. I love pumpkin pies and making green bean cassarole and watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (my sister even taped it the year I was studying in Spain over the big day). And... I love Christmas. Love it like a hillbilly loves Mountain Dew.
Brady opening up presents last year as Bua (my mom) watched. |
I've been pinning oodles of holiday crafts on Pinterest (don't you love that site?!) and am pretty excited to work on these guys for Christmas gifts (click on the links below the pictures to take you to where I've saved them on my Pinterest board, Holiday Madness):
Quilted stockings! Aneela Hoey shared the tutorial for this stocking and I love it. I think I will use everything from her idea except for the shape of the stocking and make mine this shape instead:
Wouldn't that be fun?! I think it'd also add a lot of dimension if you made a quilted stocking and also added the little flip over thing on the top (cuff?) but don't quilt that part.
And since we're talking about stockings, aren't these ornaments the cutest?!
Great way to use scraps, no? These would be great co-worker gifts, especially with the initial of someone's first name appliqued on the stocking.
Speaking of gifts for co-workers, I LOVE this idea!
Pampering in a jar! Fill any kind of jar or basket with little goodies that we all love using- lip gloss, lotion, a pumice stone, fuzzy socks- tie a ribbon around it and you've got a lovely personalized gift. Co-workers reading this post, please erase this from your brain so that you're pleasantly surprised should you get one of these in December. You're welcome. :)
Speaking of gifts for co-workers, I LOVE this idea!
Pampering in a jar! Fill any kind of jar or basket with little goodies that we all love using- lip gloss, lotion, a pumice stone, fuzzy socks- tie a ribbon around it and you've got a lovely personalized gift. Co-workers reading this post, please erase this from your brain so that you're pleasantly surprised should you get one of these in December. You're welcome. :)
And. last but not least, wouldn't this wreath be a fun alternative to the typical greenery we all put on our doors during the holidays?
I think it's darlilng! Though I think I'm going to try to think up a way to make a wreath out of yarn that looks like candy cane stripes. Oy, I'm getting excited already. :)
Whatcha think? Feeling inspired to get your crafty craft on this holiday season? I'll come back and share what I made from these ideas but you better too. Also, if we're not friends on Pinterest yet it's about time! Can't wait to see you there. :)
xo,
Kara
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
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