Creativity: Mitten Garland

I was perusing my usual blogs and came across a really fun tutorial for mitten garland. I had all the materials and got started right away. If you are interested in the tutorial go here. I decided to cut out mittens in all kinds of colors because mittens are all different colors. 

I traced my hand to make a template and then cut out the felt pieces. I added the Merry Christmas on top of the mittens with white felt letters.

Here I glue gunned the mittens to a string. 

I hung the mitten garland in the doorway of my living room. We are having a Christmas open house on Saturday December 22nd so it will be a nice festive decoration. 

Merry Christmas and 

Happy Crafting!

Family: My nephew Xavier

We had a little bundle of joy come into our family December the 4th. He was a wee bit early but all was well. His name is Xavier, here he is with his dad (my brother) Stephen.

Here I am with Xavier, the proudest aunt in the world(:

The precious Sankar VanDerHerberg family. My nephew Emanuel was so excited to see his new baby brother. 

Creativity: Bunny puppets

I made bunny puppets for my niece and nephews for Christmas. (Shhh don't tell them.) I got the pattern off of Purl Bee in Soho Newyork. If you want the pattern go here. I won't go through the steps of making them because it is all on the website but I will show you some pictures. 

Here is me having some fun with Ivy's puppet. They are so cute!

I hope you enjoyed looking at these bunnies as much as I did making them. 

Happy Crafting!

Christmas Give away

Dear faithful readers of my little blog,
I appreciate you reading my blog and responding from time to time. I have decided to do a give away just in time for Christmas. I am giving away one Japanese paper pendant in the color of your choice. Below are some examples.

All you have to do is leave a comment on this blog post by Wednesday December 19th. Please include your email address so I can let you know if you have won. If you are in town I will try and get it to you before Christmas eve but if you are out of town it will probably arrive in the new year.

Merry Christmas!

Happy Crafting!

Creativity: Christmas cards

It's been quite a month, filled with sickness, busyness and not a lot of blogging. But now that my sickness is behind me and my online course is done I am going to get blogging once again. I was just at a craft show on Saturday at George St. United and a lovely lady named Shelly said that she was missing my blog. Thanks Shelly for the encouragement. 

My Christmas cards this year were a little labor intensive. It involved sewing felt and buttons onto card stock. I have always wanted to try and sew on card stock just to see if it would work. 

I also made my own gift wrap using a block print from India and some craft paper from the post office. I got the block print from a store in Jordan when my sister in laws and I had a weekend together. 

I hope all your Christmas preparations are coming together.

Happy Crafting!