kristmas stars

last night i needed something to fill the house with christmas-y-ness... these stars seem to do the trick. i made them from christmas cards my granny had received over the years. she had so many i've used them for gift tags on presents this year, and now on these stars.

our first nativity...perfect for our apartment

a friend recently gave us this nativity set. as we have little space in our apartment, i was a bit nervous when she said she had a gift for us. then i saw it...

bicycle krafts

When we started making preparations for Erin's lingerie party there were many things that I put on my own "to do" list that really should have been a "to make" list. The napkins you've already seen, but I just remembered to post the party favors. It was a great excuse for me to practice putting in zippers. All of the fabric was from the heaps of material I got from Granny Winfrey. One purse had orange and gray as the dominant colors, and it made me smile to think that it was the one she probably would have liked best. A few pics of the party favors...

office kraft

I started thinking about gifts to make for my work friends back in august; eye pillows, twisted fabric brooch things, decoupaged pen/pencil jars, baked goods, personalized coffee mugs, etc. I finally, pressured by time and desire to be done with it, decided on diy magnets. I've made these magnets before, and actually have them on our fridge and magnet board, had ordered some from etsy a while back, and realized they would be an easy gift to make and deliver. I started with decorative paper, kind of girlie, then started cutting circles out of some of my favorite magazines. You can see the magnets I ended up giving to the guys in the office. I'm sure they were grateful to dodge the cute green button paper. I tore out pages from magazines that kind of looked Christmas-y, and wrapped the buttons in envelope style. I used the magnets to display the card and gift on my coworkers' filing cabinets. This is a super, super easy craft.