Crafty Christmas Stuff

I never got a chance to post all of the Christmas things I made. Mostly it was because I was a slacker and didn't finish everything up until the last minute.

First up is the gift basket I made for my sister. She recently moved out for her first time. And she is realizing that money is a bit hard to come by when you are on your own. So I made her a gift basket full of goodies like toothpaste and brushes, cough syrup, shampoo and conditioner, etc. I put it all in a basket and wrapped some pretty paper around each item to make the basket look a bit more festive.
For my mom, I drew a picture. Since my mom loves polar bears, a found a picture of a momma polar bear and her two cubs that reminded me of my mom, sister, and I. I then framed and matted it for her in a nice frame.


And last but not least for my dad I made a tin holder that was decoupaged with all of his favorite sports teams. This was by far the most time consuming project, but well worth it.


Those are some of the things that I gave away for the holiday season. What did you give away?

More Pictures to Share

Even though I have not been very good at posting, I have been taking pictures.

The first picture is of my BEAUTIFUL Christmas tree BEFORE the cats decided to attack it and knock it down. I had spent 2 hours perfecting everything, making sure the ribbon was laying properly and that the red and silver ornaments were evenly spaced out, only to find it laying in the middle of the floor the next morning. I was not a happy camper!


This picture was taken at Disney on Ice. It is of Alia and Nickolas being their typical goofy selfs. I had them posed just right and then Alia had to put her nacho cheese stained arm on top of Nickolas' head!


This picture turned out very good! It was taken on the night of Nickolas' Christmas program. While the other kids sung along with their class songs, Nickolas' decided to keep time by slapping on his knee. He is growing up to be such a handsome little boy!


This next picture is another one of Nickolas. It was taken on Saturday when April and I were out shopping. Before we went into Target, Nickolas had to play a bit in the red circle that is outside. I had a really good action shot of him jumping out of the circle, but unfortunately it came out blurry :(


And my last picture was from the "Dirty Santa" party last night. This is of Miss Alia and Miss Angel being the goofy girls that we all know and love. I tried to get a nice picture of them, but this is what I got instead!

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More Photos for December

When I decided to do this challenge, I did not think I would have killer headaches during the first week. So because of that, I am 2 pictures short. I was going to just use pictures that I had taken earlier, but that doesn't fit the challenge and I don't want to cheat. I am going to try to be better at this and better at posting the pictures that I have taken!

Below are the pictures that I took on Friday, Sat

Photo-A-Day - 12.2.2008

So for the Photo-A-Day Challenge, I was inspired by the colors of cardstock that Archiver's has to offer. I love going in there and looking at the colors. It is so hard to buy just one colorwhen you have your "Free Cardstock" coupons that I often buy 5 different colors!

Photo-A-Day Challenge

As I was catching up on my blog readings, I noticed that JessicaSprague.com has posted a challenge. The challenge is to take and post a photo-a-day for the month of December. Since my cameras have not been loved the amount that they should've been this year, I decided that this would be the perfect thing for me to participate in.

So last night, as I was driving home, I got out my trusty diImage camera and took a picture of the dashboard. It's nothing spectacular but it is often the only thing giving off light on my ride home.