Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Out with the Halloween costumes and turkeys, and in with the Christmas crafts! I haven't finished anything other than my cards yet, but we are decorating, and finding fun things in our boxes of Christmas decorations. This stocking was made by Aunt Nina long ago - she always spelled my nickname with one "e"! I think each of us got one of these, though I'm not sure Diane was even born when she made them - does anyone else still have theirs? I've been using mine for a few years now - the glitter is still holding up, and there's still one plastic holly berry attached!

Our tree is decorated - we put it in front of the living room window, which made it hard to get a good picture. It's actually a very nicely shaped tree, though it's not very photogenic - in this picture it looks lopsided! Note Mom's Christmas tablecloth used as a tree skirt! Every year I say I'm going to make a tree skirt, but then I always end up just draping fabric around the tree. This year I managed to get a pattern for a tree skirt.

I made some of my cards this year, with stuff from my favorite paper store, Paper Source, which is conveniently located in our neighborhood shopping area! I used as a background, some letterpress cards with pine branches on them, that were on sale last year after Christmas. I only had 16 of them, so I couldn't make all my cards this year, but then I usually lose interest after that many anyway! I did them in two color combinations with a new paper design that I love, called Vintage Snowflakes. While I was at it, I lined the envelopes with matching paper.

Now it's on to trying to machine quilt a Christmas quilt that I put together years ago...