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far we were away from perfection and quit working on it we re done being overwhelmed and we are finding little ways to make it our own on a 2 digit budget and i can t wait to share it all what about you what are you doing posted by meg 0 comments labels living thursday december 30 2010 handmade christmas i m not sure where when or why i decided to do a lot of homemade gifts but i did with it all said and done i think that i would do it again it was a lot of fun trying to find stuff that i could make that was a bit cooler than knitted coasters also i loved getting stuff that was handmade it s great it makes me feel cool and hip and it feels 1 304 more personal even if the person didn t make it a quote from the etsy article sums it up much better than i can it s not just you are what you eat anymore he robert kalin co founder of etsy said you are what you buy and these things define you first here are all the things that i made as presents 1 at the top of every child s christmas list is personalized shirts and pillowcases so for each of my nieces and nephews a set was made their eyes lit up mainly with confusion when they opened their boxes honey that s a pillowcase enjoy side story when i was in elementary school my great grandmother passed away and i was given a few of her belongings among them was a pillowcase with a pink monogram on it that said estelle it was my first encounter with monogram it was love at first site 2 i m pretty sure that my b i l s and s i l s are done having children so for them i made silhouettes of each of their kids over thanksgiving i snapped a profile picture and used a free program to design each one it wasn t easy and i couldn t have done it without my husband s help who is a design engineer eventually i got the hang of it pictured here are the black and white ones but i did a funky version as well grey and white zig zag with a brightly colored silhouette 3 magnets of each of the grandchildren my friend juli gave me this idea i thought about making some for everyone but i thought it would be special if just grandmama had them full size picture of each kid laminated at kinkos magnet hot glued to the back it was fun getting them to be goofy in them pictures taken outdoors works best 4 custom t shirts for my brothers printable fabric and iron on stuff it was great to meet you we ll be seeing a lot of each other for the record i waited too late to get started on all that stuff the last two weeks before christmas was a little crafty a little too crafty i vow to never wait that long again keeping the vow is a different story next up all the handmade gifts that we received 1 a leather chalk bag a friend at church has a hobby of making things out of leather and started making chalk bags for his son who climbs it was a perfect gift for john who needs a chalk bag and appreciates cool stuff like this 2 not pictured my m i l made fleece blankets for each of the seven grandchildren what a great and easy handmade gift fleece rectangle with snipped frays 2a also not picture my dad made me some new side tables for my living room more on that later 3 wooden trucks burl asked me to put these on his christmas list and i allowed them seeing that the toys are wooden they are from etsy click here to see all the cool wooden stuff that they have 4 jewelry i m not a jewelry person but i ve decided to become one i told my mom that i would love a necklace from the ardent sparrow and i showed her where i blogged about them earlier well i ll be danged if she bought me everything i posted she doubled my jewelry inventory and i have been wearing something everyday since christmas i loved opening each of the cutely wrapped packages pink and white hello it s like the the ardent sparrow made them just for me 5 i saved the best for last because no present handmade or not was enjoyed as much as the wheelbarrow that my dad with the help of john s dad made for burl the pictures turned out a little blurry but don t let it distract from what the picture is saying burl loves the barrow there ya have it my creative juices are spent thank goodness i have a whole year to be inspired and thank goodness there are cool blogs and websites to do just that inspire i love being part of the online community of creative hipsters that are making crafting cool again and yes i just declared myself a creative hipster even though i am not even close to being posted by meg 3 comments labels burl crafting paper sewing wednesday december 29 2010 etsy everyone knows about etsy right just in case you re living under a rock i ll give you the lowdown it s an online store where anyone can make anything and sell it to anyone who wants it anytime the internet is on it s made crafting cool again i love it type in aprons for sale and over 1 000 results pop up and we re talking cool funky aprons no boring squared edges no solids one of the first ones to pop us is hemp halter top it s official crafting is cool again yesterday john emailed a new york times article about etsy and it included pictures from their headquarters in brooklyn wow those are some cool hipsters and let s just say they ve made crafting cool again check back tomorrow to see what things i got and gave for christmas that were handmade posted by meg 1 comments labels cool stuff crafting tuesday december 28 2010 2010 christmas card this year we made our debut in the christmas card exchange if you didn t receive them and you think that you should have i m sorry creating an organized system of recipients wasn t high on my priority list especially since they got mailed just a few days before christmas here it is our christmas card handmade by me with all that extra time i thought that i had but really didn t i had fun doing it though and it saved me bundles i also wrote a letter to go with the card let s just say i took a few liberties with the truth feliz navidad amigos here we are entering the christmas card shuffle we couldn t be more excited with our newest addition burl things are changing and there is a lot to share first as many of you know john has been working at his new job design engineer at columbus mckinnon for a little over a year now the best part of the job is that it is two minutes away from our local climbing gym that s right folks john is rock climbing and he loves it i love it too because i know that any day now he s going to get corporate sponsorship and he can quit his day job can we say expense paid vacation we re going places i can feel it second i am a stay at home mom now and it s nothing but fun for me i m fitting into the role quite nicely but i have a great example martha stewart she has everything i want a crafting empire a name associated with amazing food and a brief incarceration in a low security prison that made her cooler not more dangerous now my days are filled with sewing cooking over complicated recipes and researching easy to commit white collar crimes oh and i watch after burl he s a ton of fun the time is going by so fast and he s changing everyday with all his little developments john and i realized that this is the best age for him to learn a language s we have decided when we are at home with him we will only speak to him in spanish the only problem is that neither one of us speaks spanish fluently so there is a lot of awkward silence but we re sticking with it because burl can say mama papa hola and taco and he just formed his first sentence dónde está el baño even though he s only 9 months old we couldn t be more proud of him he is speaking spanish forming sentences and learning the most important phrases first we would love to hear from your family until we talk again feliz navidad pretty loco huh i came up with that all by myself i ran it by john first who showed a little concern over when why and how i came up with it then i made my brothers read it it s no sedaris but i tried joseph said it was wordy but ok funny and daniel gave me the go ahead on printing just in case anyone is interested then here are the instructions on how to make the card what ya will need 1 picture i took the picture myself with the self timer then i cropped it edited maybe edited too much because we looked orange and we re more bronze pasty than that and added the feliz navidad i did this for free on picnik the same place that i made my dad s christmas card then i had it printed at ritz camera for 6 cents click here for that deal 2 some pretty card stock paper as the background i had peace love joy in spanish this is where the biggest portion of my costs came my printer doesn t do the run off printing so i had to have that printed at a local printer it was 75 cents for an 8 1 2 x 11 which i cut down to 4 pieces 4 1 4 x 5 1 2 3 envelopes i found some fun textured kind at hobby lobby they were in the letterpress section oh how i love letterpress did you know that you can print off a 40 coupon for anything in hl anytime i carried a supply with me over the holidays click here for that 4 scissors 5 mini whole punch 6 twine which can be found anywhere walmart by the registers at hl 7 corner cutter i told myself that i wasn t going to round the corners of 100 cards but i tried it on one and it was so darn cute so i cut the corners which means i punched the corner cutter 400 times i might have lost my marbles but it was worth the cute factor instructions 1 cut several little pieces of twine mine were around 5 inches but any length would do fine 2 center the picture over the card stock 3 hold it there and punch two holes in through the picture and the card 4 run the twine through both wholes throw them in a pile after stringing all the cards tie each one the first 8 will be perfect knots the next 92 will be a little shaky 5 cut the corners if that s what ya want wa la there you go a christmas card for less than the stamp envelope 10 cents picture 6 cents card stock 26 cents twine basically free stamp 42 cents total 84 cents per card stamp and all now the fun part stuffing addressing and mailing i can see this concept working differently birthday party invites baby announcements etc love to see what your creations posted by meg 2 comments labels burl crafting paper monday december 27 2010 white christmas this christmas was even better than i thought it was going to be it started christmas eve i got off early just in time to make it to the christmas eve service at my church it was pretty emotional for me meaning i cried through 87 of it last year i remember being 7 months pregnant sitting beside a family with three active kids wink wink robin and being teased that wrestling kids will be our new reality i blinked and here we are a year later wrestling loving and fighting over who gets to hold baby burl yes that s a snickers bar from my stocking the next morning we had christmas just the three of us our morning a tradition with a wonderful addition and things felt nice look at the next picture burl s face tells it all let me just cut to the chase it s not about stuff but if it was we made out like bandits and it was a whole lotta fun playing with everything from ripping paper stacking rings strutting our new gear being blown away from the generosity of others thanks moms and dads we enjoyed the stuff that came with christmas i almost had feelings of being a spoiled american but i told that voice to be quiet and get me another cookie another cool thing we had a white christmas which is as rare as seeing a leprechaun on st patty s day props to motha nature for that added ambiance after our morning we did the family thing one thing that i love about this year is that we did my family and john s family on separate days this was the way to go instead of squeezing everything into one day my family came over for brunch on the 25th then we went to john s parents for the 26th muy bien my family was the same semi appropriate gifts were exchanged great debut diane see that sign from her to my dad amazing my dad and brothers teared up at the mention of an emotional story hbo series band of brothers we ate and ate and ate burl melted broseph s heart a bit more with some post lunch snuggle then burl was re engergized by his new toy from marmee i think that it helps burl learn to walk it had wheels and a place big enough for burl so we did what any cool kids would do naturally we raced him down the hallway next up john s family the crazy didn t stop at our house no it went with us up on the mountain instead of wild and crazy fun we had a bit of organized chaos fun but isn t that what christmas is all about with lots of family kids and presents we had a good time then we went outside to get our sledding on which lacked speed but not thrill us southerns can make anything fun yee haw i hope that if you are reading this that your christmas was just as merry and you were able to feel the love christmas can be hard for a lot of people and if you re one of those people i m sorry as much as i had fun and all these pictures reflect a happy version of myself i had a few moments that were less than perfect that s where the real reason of christmas stepped in and rocked my world here s the reason god s love for us that s the point and he doesn t forget us he makes a way for us a really great bible passage for me this year was isaiah 54 4 10 which included this phrase with everlasting love i will have compassion on you says the lord your redeemer posted by meg 1 comments labels family sunday december 26 2010 this week s menu this week s menu is up in the air it s the holidays and i m not in planning mode the only thing that i know is that it will not involve a lot of desserts some desserts just not a lot and we might be doing salad for dinner we still have a cousin dinner in the works and an anniversary dinner that s right i said anniversary john and i celebrate 7 years of marital bliss tomorrow by marital bliss i mean bliss it s been a dang good time being married to john each year our anniversary gets a bit overshadowed by christmas i m ok with that because inside i m celebrating one more year under our belt one more year of fun times and one more year together i would like to take a minute to dedicate a little poem to my main squeeze the roses are red and the candles are lit but who cares cause we still got it posted by meg 1 comments labels menus wednesday december 22 2010 ornaments a tutorial here is a fun little craft that would be great as a little hostess gift neighbor gift that little extra something on a holiday package or something for yourself these are somewhat small ornaments so they look fun on a place other than the christmas tree with all my greenery spread about i put one of a stem hanging off of one of the wreaths that i made here s what you need 1 scissors 2 glue gun fully loaded 3 skinny ribbon 4 aleene s tacky glue 5 jewel things they are the size of a sliver dollar maybe larger the bigger the better i found some at hobby lobby and walmart all i could find was the iridescent and i w...