Making Holiday Gifts....

Having FUN making gifts.... for Birthdays and Christmas... In our family we have two 3 birthdays during the Holidays. 

 

I made some shabby 4" quilt squares with letters for my niece who is turning one next week. Sort of like a book I guess... Also a super soft flannel quilt in brown and pink. The brown, blue and tan is a crochet project I started yesterday...playing with some fun flowers on top. I think I have 3 afghans started and someday one of them will be finished :)

What are you making for the Holidays?

Busy making more ART...

Here is some brand new fun ART... available on Ebay

These items are all great for gifts with the Holidays upon us. 

Personally I have bought 3 gifts so far but pretty much know what I am getting... most online. I much rather spend the day painting in my studio than running over people at the mall. 

Online shopping is wonderful...

You can even create your own wish list....you probably knew that already but think about it for second. If you have a husband with not so good gift giving skills why not make life easy for him with a wish list on Amazon..You just mail it to him and never say a word about it. Somehow these guys think an elf or Santa himself send that email and you will end up on Christmas morning with the book you really wanted to read. Not a vacuum cleaner or Kitchen Aid :)

 These paper bag albums are adorable, all you do is add some of your own pictures and you have a cute little brag book album (8x8) to put on your coffee table for the Holidays... or why not give as a gift.

Oh Cristmas tree....Oh Christmas tree....

     
Is it not amazing....the things we do around the Holidays...like driving 3 hours to get a Christmas tree...just because it is a loved tradition....even when you have moved far away and there are tree lots on every street corner where you live today. 

 

That is what we did the day after Thanksgiving. We had all 3 kids in the house and started talking about how we always found the perfect tree at "Santa's Acres" in Camino California each holiday since the kids were little. We jumped into the car and drove.... 3 plus hours north... to Santa's Acres and relived memories and traditions yet again. What a perfect but long day :)

 

 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Happy Thanksgiving to all

Christmas Gift Tags....

 

 Just listed some FUN Christmas Gift Tags on Ebay and a Vintage looking scrapbook made with paper bags and true vintage cards and images....you can find it here  

 

Monday again...and lots to do. Cleaners, groceries and birthday gift shopping. Not much blog writing so just enjoy the tags and know...the holidays really are right around the corner.

Soccer season over....

After a long soccer season for my youngest daughter I am so ready to be done with the every other day driving to practice. The games on weekends are fun but limits you to do anything else....for months on end. We now have a few weekends off...until the indoor 
soccer season starts :) 

I cannot  believe it is Thanksgiving in a few short days and Christmas decorating next weekend.  What happened to the fall....and all the Christmas shopping I wanted to do before the holidays this year :)

Need to get busy since from now until New years eve we are a busy family. Both daughters have birthdays, Swedish Christmas Eve, Christmas Day American style, Advent and Lucia Swedish style and our little niece's first birthday. 

I do not have a single gift for Christmas or birthdays.... Perhaps I will do Amazon for all of it this year. The pumpkin pies will be baked tomorrow and birthday dinner the day after that. Dust off the stove and hit the kitchen. Gotta love the holidays.

Jelly roll fabric and messy ART Studio

I just love fabric....how can you not? These jelly rolls are amazing and so much fun to work with. I found this one yesterday at the amazing price of $6.99. The strips of fabric are 2,5" and the roll holds 42 strips. The project is a log cabin block quilt and I can't wait to get started....

That is where the problem starts! I can't wait to get started... hm... think I have something I "need" to do first...

My Art Studio is a MESS...I can't fit anything on my very long desk since it is covered in unfinished projects and fun ideas...You see, I often say, "I can't wait to start working on this new project" and I do... I start and very often finish but on a normal day I work on several projects at a time. I get easily bored and if I am sewing on a quilt that I really don't feel like working on the work gets sloppy and the quilt nasty. I might feel like painting flowers one minute and glue gnomes to wood the next... so I do...

That is why one wall in my studio looks like this....filled to the brim with supplies and ideas for inspiration... Perhaps when it all comes down to it I can't work as well in a neat and organized studio as I can in a messy, colorful, yummy and inspirational one like my own. I do love my studio more than any other place and I think I will start that new log cabin quilt right now :)