Category: my family
the TP tree
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For those of you that may remember our yearly toilet paper roll exchange, here’s what happened this year.
(For those of you that have NO idea what I am talking about, you can read about it from my post last Christmas…to sum it up, my dad & I have been passing back & forth the same TP roll since 1988…read the story here.) It was my turn this year. I had totally forgotten about it until about a week before Christmas. Well, in order to stump my dad, I knew I better get thinking. I remembered a post that I had seen on a blog about making fabric Christmas trees….uh-huh, that’s it! Here are the easy instructions to make a Fabric Christmas Tree: Supplies:
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My dad has a strong passion for supporting our troops overseas, and his home office is done in red-white-blue, so that is why I chose to use those colors, as oppose to traditional Christmas colors. For my tree, my hubby hollowed out the center of the foam, so that the TP roll could easily be inserted and hidden. It worked! I gave my dad this gift for his office on the 21st and after celebrating Christmas on the 25th, I had to give him a clue in order for him to find it! We will see what he comes up with for next year! |
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cute shoes! uh, no.
from Nick
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I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.
I, for one, had a super-terrific Christmas day. Above, is one of my gifts. This one, from my son, Nick. More Christmas pix to come. Enjoy your day! |
kate’s purse
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My niece & nephew have spent the entire weekend with us. In a house of 3 people, the youngest being 15, there aren’t too many things to entertain a 10 & 6 year old.
EXCEPT for……. Craft supplies! Kate, the 10 y.o. made this cute purse. For the most part, all by herself! She came up with shape, handstitched the edges, (whipstitch, is what I call it), hemmed the flap, we added a snap for closure, a shoulder strap and a flower & button embellishment! It’s quite a pretty bag! We’ve also strung many letter-beaded bracelets, hand embroidered hearts and lettering onto fabric, sketched, AND we’ve been to our local museum for the Annual Christmas Tree Festival, (which I have gone to for yeeeeaaarrrs), drove around to look at the Christmas lights, shopped for furniture, drank hot chocolate, watched Christmas movies and MORE! (I’m going to need a vacation from my weekend…lol) Hoping to work on my December Daily later tonight/tomorrow….I will post pictures soon! |
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whoooo are you thankful for?
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Happy Thanksgiving! I hope that everyone has had a great Thanksgiving, full of lots of delicious food and time spent with loved-ones.
Well, as you can see above, this is the completed project that I made my lil miss hoot & her hunky hoot friend for. |
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Who are we thankful for? We’re thankful for YOU! |
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trouble
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weekend full of trouble, literally. |
a new view
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my son & husband installed a new glass door for me yesterday.
since then, we have all enjoyed the new view!! i love it! |
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sweets for the sweet
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this is another bag that i made with my cricut.
i made it for my dear SIL…she’s been going through some heartache right now. |
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i played on the word “sweet”.
i made the front flower embellishment stamping the words “sweets for the sweet”, included some hershey kisses, which are sweet… and i also put together some Bible verses that i hope will encourage her…sweet words & promises of God. sweets for the sweet! |
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dd 2008 finished!
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whew!
finally finished my december daily 2008. better late, than never, right? went to a crop last night, (thanks for coming, Stef…i would have been all alone without you!), my goal was to finish my DD 2008. i would have liked to have made them a little more detailed, more embellishments etc, but hey, at least i finished it! i have already bought my supplies for my DD 2009! if you want to see the layouts close up, visit my gallery at sistv. |
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