Archive for December, 2011

Christmas cards for my husband and kids.

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

My daughter – then 6-years old – decided last year to start a family tradition of making cards for each other that we would open on Christmas morning.  I have this little red vintage metal bucket with handles that we use to put them in.  Last night she asked my husband to bring in the […]

Celebrate.

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

Yippee!  It’s Friday, and only 2 more sleeps ’til Santa comes!  Are you all set for the big weekend?  We just have to make one last trip to the grocery store today and that’s it.  The kids are out of school and home today working on getting their rooms clean to make way for all […]

Teacher Christmas gifts.

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

I really don’t like giving gift cards as gifts.  They just don’t seem that fun to open.  But in the case of teachers (and my teenage nephews), gift cards are pretty much the best if not the only option.  So when I am giving a gift card I like to give a little gift with […]

School party goodie bags.

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

Today is the last day of school before winter break for my kids.  And one of them has their Christmas party at 9:15 this morning, the other is at 12:30.  Looks like I’m spending the day at school today.  Should be fun though – and with the different times, I won’t have to be running […]

Quick & Easy Christmas packaging.

Monday, December 19th, 2011

Up today are a couple more quick and crafty packages I put together towards my goal this Christmas of getting as many gifts as I could wrapped in some sort of crafty way.  I made a lot of gift tags, I made a lot of big bows to go on packages, and I used patterned […]