Last night I made the covers to complete the 12 Days of Christmas swap book. It’s bound and will be enjoyed for years to come.
I’m thinking that I’ll put it away with the Christmas stuff so each year I can take it out and reminisce.
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It that time of year again… I joined a Christmas swap with some of the great artists on abc_alteredbookclub for the annual swap. In the past we’ve made fun little gifts for each participant but this year it was slightly different. We each make a page based on the 12 days of Christmas song. At the end we’ll each have a wonderful Holiday book to cherish every year.
Here are all the little gifties just waiting to be opened.
Today’s 1st day of Christmas page was made by Corinne of Glitz-oh Girl.
A great piece of digital art! Thanks Corinne!
Each day I’ll be opening another page…or maybe I should say the kids will be opening another page. They love to open presents!!
I wanted to share some of the ornaments on our tree. The vast majority of the ornament’s I’ve made, are from my childhood or hold some other significance in our lives. There are a few “filler” pieces but hopefully I’ll weed those out over time.
On the first day of Christmas I’d like to share with you…
the first ornament I ever made. This God’s eye ornament was made in VBS (vacation Bible school) MANY, MANY YEARS AGO!
When I got married…nearly 16 years ago, my mom passed along several of my favorite ornaments from my childhood. A couple of these will be shared during this series.
Yes, I did say Christmas! I was just grumbling to my husband about the holiday sales and lighting ceremonies that are going on already…call me a hypocrite.
These likely won’t hit the mail until Monday. We’re due for the first snow of the season tomorrow and I tend to stay home, if possible, on that day…too many fender benders.
It always amazes me that everyone seems to forget how to drive in snow during the scant 5 months that it’s generally not falling. DUH!!!! Get a grip people…it’s Minnesota!!! Learn how to drive.
It’s certainly been a while since I have joined in on T stands for Tuesday. So much, yet so little has happened.
This doodle is from before Winter break. Since I have had the same class over and over, I tend to doodle while waiting for my small group time to begin. I never realized how often I doodle until distance learning began.
Winter break started a bit early for me…similar to last year. My back was giving me trouble from all the sitting. UGH! At least we found out that we are going to back to hybrid in-person learning mid-Feb. Since all the sitting is really hard on me I tackled making a new table for the treadmill.
It still needs a bit of work as it now tilts backward a bit which is kind of uncomfortable to type. But now I have the ability to slowly walk or just stand when I need to and still work. I’ve been working from school some days as well to change things up.
Christmas was a quiet one. We had a blizzard on the 23rd that lasted into Christmas Eve. Not a big deal when you aren’t going any where. The drifts were crazy in places…these were just cool!
We had fondue and played a couple board games…a nice and peaceful day.
Marvin always enjoys posing in front of the tree for me. He’s kind of a diva.
And what self-respecting cat wouldn’t crawl into a present box. Of course he’s huge and didn’t completely fit.
Since I hadn’t been creative at all for what seemed like weeks I did a page in an art journal to start off the new year. I don’t love it but that ok. Just trying to start the year off right.
Speaking of starting off the year right…I have chosen the word Strength for my Word of the Year.
You can check out the post by clicking on the image in the sidebar.
And if you were curious how I did with last years word: Mindful…be sure to check out that post as well.
I’ll leave you with a my breakfast and my fortune from last evening.
Today has me working from home.
What are you doing today?
Hello and welcome to another edition of T stands for Tuesday! You may have noticed that I’ve been gone a while. I talked about my back saga in the previous post so we are moving on to something more festive and fun!
Since we were hosting Christmas (because I love it!) I had to lean on the rest of the family to do all of the heavy and not so heavy lifting.
Even the simple things like getting a cake in and out of the oven.
The past few years I’ve made a rum cake for Christmas but this time I went for a Fireball Whiskey cake. It was so good. I forgot to take a photo of it with the icing…likely because it wasn’t very pretty.
We had overnight guests on Christmas eve…Mini-me gave up her bed and slept on the couch. Of course, this meant that she was up even earlier than she usually is. She is my early bird kid.
It was a long wait…even with me making all kinds of noise in the kitchen.
This was my favorite present under the tree…it’s hard to wrap arrows. Mini-me needed a new set for archery season which is just days away.
Marvin had to be a part of the chaos…bows are his favorite.
I suppose the whiskey cake could have been my “beverage” for T stands for Tuesday but instead, I thought I’d share the tiniest cocktail I’ve ever seen. My BIL brought this over. It wasn’t anything I cared for but the can sure was cute.
I’ve been working on purging my rubber stamps. I was so frustrated digging through them trying desperately to find a Happy Anniversary stamp since I had promised my MIL that I’d make her some cards. I had a bunch of bases completed they just needed a sentiment and the also requested “shiny butterflies”. Thankfully I have a very crafty neighbor who is willing to share. Thanks, KW!
The “shiny butterflies” have the big wow factor but are pretty easy to make. I stamped each butterfly on white card stock with black Staz-on ink. I used watercolor paint to colorize each. After completely dry, I fussy cut each and placed on a non-stick surface. I coated each one with Diamond glaze. As they dry a slight curl happens quite naturally giving them an even more “lifelike” appearance.
I have now looked through every single one of my stamps and alas…I never even had a Happy Anniversary stamp. ugh. Well, now I do…I bought a set of sentiments at Michaels. I’m sure you’ll be seeing some cards in the near future with these words.
Today is Mini-me’s 17th birthday. I can hardly believe it. 
I was planning to go out and get her favorite meal… Chipotle…but we are getting a snowstorm. It remains to be seen if we venture out or not.
Speaking of crazy storms and slippery conditions….have you seen this video?
The video was taken a few miles from our house. Mini-me had friends on that bus heading to a girls’ hockey tournament.
What are you doing today?
The countdown is on. Christmas will be here before we know it! AHHH! Who had all their shopping done? Nope, not me. And we have a couple birthdays on either side of Christmas too. WHEW…the pressure.
In reality, I’m not super stressed at all. It all seems to work itself out. I do enjoy gift giving…just more the spontaneous gift giving than the obligatory. Such as I got a sweet gift from a coworker completely unexpectedly. I had complemented her a her bag and she told me she’d picked it up in the dollar spot at Target( not affiliation). A couple days later she brought me my very own matching bag!
I like to try to make some gifts…or make gifts for others to give. I was working on a new item I saw a while ago and have wanted to give a whirl. I got all my pieces cut and ready then ….
this happened.
Totally not getting anything done. That’s ok because I was still recovering from the weirdest illness I’ve had in recent years. Sore throat, stuff nose, icky tummy and wicked dizziness…like hardly able to walk dizzy. Mini-me got it first then me then Mr. G. Thankfully it only lasted a day.
Back to the craftiness…
I made microwave bowl cozies. No more burned fingers. They are microwavable, reversible, washable and downright handy.
Our school is having another craft sale week long this year. Its really fun to see what co-workers like to create in their leisure time.
I brought some of my old etsy and craft sale stock as well as the new product that I’m trying out. Frankly I don’t care if the bowl cozies sell because I can give them as gifts.
On other news…my December Daily is ready to go. I will share it in another post. I’m really excited about this project. I keep tucking bits of this and that away each day to slip into my journal. It will be super fun to look back on in the coming years. I still pull out the book I made from my calendar project of 2014.
The cold weather has me sipping on tea everyday…both to keep the chill off and to sooth my sore throat.
What are you doing today?