Christmas

We had an eventful holiday with all of starting on Christmas Eve. We visited with my Grandparents and then headed over to Jon's Grandpa's to celebrate with his family.

Christmas morning we were hoping to get an early start on the celebration but woke up to find that our power went out in the middle of the night and that it had been snowing like crazy. (I'll post my snow fall pictures in another post) We opened our presents and here is a collage of the excitement.

Once we were done at home we got ready and headed over to my parents for breakfast of Züpfe bread and to open presents.

We ended the day at Jon's Mom's house where we enjoyed their Christmas tradition of Christmas pie and opening presents.

It was a wonderful day and it was great to be able to spend time with each of our families.

Gift Tags

This year for Christmas I decided that I would make my own gift tags. Every year I feel like I go to the store and I can never find gift tags in a design that I really like. One year I even forfeited gift tags and just wrote people's names on the bottom of their gifts.

To start this project I found a paper punch in the shape of a tag and various printed papers as well as cardstock in solid colors.


Once I had a bunch of little tags punched out I decided which solids to match up with prints. I then glued a solid and print together. By doing this it provided the tag with a little weight, since the printed paper was kind of light. I then used a hole punch to punch holes at the top of the tags. I had decided that I wanted to use various ribbons and ric rac to hang the tags from. You could skip the holes at the top and just tape the tags on if you want.


Once all of this is done you can design and address the tags however you want.

Here is an example of a wrapped present with a completed tag. I used stamps for the lettering.

The Twilight Before Christmas

I was sent this video, and thought some of you twilight fans might find the humor.

Santa

Even Larry is waiting for Santa to come.

Homemade Toffee

Every year I make several batches of homemade toffee to take into work, family events and holiday celebrations. However, after all of that is said and done there is always someone who says they wished they could have had a little extra to take home.

So, I am trying to take an inventory of anyone who might like their own personal batch of toffee this year. If you have never had my toffee, I think it's fabulous - but I might be biased. Also, I don't put nuts in or on the outside of the toffee.

If you want toffee just leave me a comment and I will make sure you are on my list.

Martha Stewart Crafts

EVERYTHING is on sale at Martha Stewart Crafts! Who knows when you might need embellishments and such. I love sales!

New Holiday Decorations

There are new holiday decorations posted on the Spell It Out blog.

Festive

I am sure I will get some criticism for this post, but here it goes. Although I am enjoying this snowless weather. I am having a hard time feeling like it's actually Christmas. My internal calendar is all confused because there is no snow on the ground. There have even been several times I have left the house recently without wearing a heavy coat. Shh...don't tell my mom. ;)

I am sure once it snows I will regret that I even missed it in the first place and then I will want to go on vacation to somewhere warm. Those who know me well know that I have a fear of driving in the snow. It's not necessarily the snow that I am afraid of, but rather the other drivers that might run into me.

I guess it's just the magic of snow that I miss, not the actual snow and the trouble that goes along with it. Maybe I should go find myself a snowglobe to shake and get that magical feeling.