Merry Christmas!

Love, Daniel, Emily & Dane

Christmas Crafting

I felted an old wool sweater and made Dane a new tie.

We have to make our own snow around these parts.

Gingerbread houses (or sleighs) are a must during Christmas time.  Maybe next year I'll try to make actual gingerbread...or maybe not.

Some fabric wrapped Christmas cones I made.  They were so fun and easy to make.  Well, the one on the left was more labor intensive because I cut the fabric in strips and ruffled it before gluing it around the cone.

I made Daniel an Advent Calendar.  Not only is it fun, but functional as it decorates our very long and blank entry way wall.

Sneak Peak

The amazingly talented Lanay, at Lanay Swanson Photography, took our family pictures at Thanksgiving.  Here's a sneak peak of our Christmas Card with some of the photos.

I won 25 Christmas Cards from Shutterfly from Nike at Choose to Thrive. She has an awesome blog, go check it out!

Stationery card

View the entire collection of cards.

Thanksgiving and a Ball of Yarn

Thanksgiving

We went to Allen / Princeton, TX for Thanksgiving and had a lovely time celebrating with my sister and Daniel's aunt, uncle, and cousins.  I think there were 14 adults and 7 children in all; it was great to be surrounded by so much love!  Here is a very short video clip Daniel took.

And the Yarn

I bought some yarn at Hobby Lobby and decided to get crafty.  Here's project one (I used the yarn to wrap around the wreath form):

And here is project two, a baby hat I crocheted for a friend of ours who is having a baby in a couple weeks.  Since the baby isn't here yet, the monkey had to model the hat....