creative christmas

all the beautiful wreaths by this flickr member inspired me to buy yarn for the first time. wow what amazing wreaths she has made. ( i have a serious itch to learn to crochet or knit lately) so with a styrofoam wreath form and some goodies from home i made this, and i adore it!

i used a peice of white felt (i really wanted red but had used it to make my dog a cape for halloween!) and some corsage pins and voila! instant embellishment!

i also finally got to Target's dollar bins early enough this season to pick some adorable socks for joey's advent calendar. i numbered them with some old Making Memories stickers.

here is 2008 advent when i couldn't find socks. it worked just as well, and its so fun for joey! (same dark green ribbon used to hang both, i don't think i'll ever use up that spool!)

reason to revel wednesday candy cane stripes

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one of my favorite things about this time of year is the availability of Bob’s Sweet Stripes.
i love, love, love them! they have inspired this week’s reason to revel with their red and white Christmas-y striped goodness.

1. candy cane shot glass, these were given as a secret santa/white elephant gift at a recent party with peppermint schnapps. yummy

2. candy cane cocktail from miss martha

3. candy colored tree

4. holiday cupcakes, these are the cutest things ever!

christmas cards

whoa! I 've been away awhile! tis the season to be busy i guess. here are some very colorful x-mas cards i made for my wonderful mother in law. and below that is a card that came to the office at my 9-5 job! a pop up snowglobe. you can get similar ones here. i still prefer paper and glue but they are very unique!