Crafty Christmas!

Happy Hump day! 

Wow... it has been a while, and I'm a-slacking... although I'm sure it goes without saying that this time of the year is CRAZY! I can't believe Monday is Christmas Eve!

Disclaimer: This may be a long one... and probably pretty random :) have to catch up...   There has been several projects in the making around these parts over the past week.

FIRST!! I wanted to share with you Dallas and I's Christmas cards... Shout out to Shutterfly... which I love and I do almost all of my stationary things there! 

 OH! AND I also have a belated picture of the new mirror hanging in the entryway! I love it so much... and I put our pallet bench underneath with a coffee sack I picked up at a local coffee shop (if you go into any coffee shop that grinds their own coffee you can simply ask them what they do with the empty bags.. and most will give them to you, or sell them to you for a deal!)  This is our new entryway...

Along with quite a few other Christmas projects this week, I decided to make some of the gals in my family some scarves with felted wool... they turned out really great and ended up being pretty easy... just a little time consuming.  I played around with some colours and also some little beads for the middles, and I can't wait to wrap them up! 

 I also thought that I would share where I have been keeping our Christmas cards this year... I really liked some of the ideas I've seen for putting pictures on these with string, so I figured I could make it work for cards, and I threw a couple of Dallas' old school ornaments on there too... :)

Well, ok... I was going to share with you the other Christmas gifts I made, but then I got to thinking about it and it is very likely that those who will be receiving those gifts would be reading this, so, I decided to hold off until after Christmas... :)  But I will say that they are sooooooooo stinking cool, and it is so cool what you can do with some wood, and a little imagination... :)  

Lastly I wanted to share with you one more thing:  Something I remember vividly from my childhood and throughout Christmas' past, is something that my Mom always did... looking back, I truly didn't think anything of it, but realize now how much it meant.  Every Christmas... along with all of the baking that always seemed endless each year, my mom would spend hours, sometimes a whole day, making Christmas Cinnamon wreaths (my Grandma Impi's recipe!) for all of our neighbors.  Not only were they delicious... but she would hand deliver them to each of our neighbors, wishing them a Merry Christmas.  She made them, every year, spreading a little love and never receiving anything in return but a Merry Christmas to you too.  All I knew was that we barely knew our neighbors, and yet my lovely Mama decided to take time every year to bless them.  I could go on for days... this is simply ONE of many things that my awesome Mom does daily... she is such a blessing to so many, and to me... and she has taught me so much... 

I hope that you too (like me) will note this lesson from my Mom... and take whatever spare second/minute/hour you have, to bless some unsuspecting people in your life this week.  I'm heading out to deliver! :) 

Blessings and Merry Christmas! 


K


But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all people." Luke 2:10