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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

reflections of a handmade christmas

I tried to have a handmade Christmas this year.  We were about 80% there.  The other 20% was in the form of Lego’s for Cameron and Thomas Wooden Railroad for Henry.

I sewed, baked, made candy and made a few photo albums and recipe books.

Here is one of my favorite pieces.  I made this for my friend, Anja, she brings Cameron home 3 days a week for me.  She is also my confidant on so many levels.  I really cherish the friendship that her and I share.

I took a wool sweater and sewed the sides to form a pillow, I then simply stitched with wool yarn the rough outline of a snowman.  I almost kept this for myself.

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I baked some banana bread for some neighbors, the postman and our fresh connect delivery man.  I simply wrapped the bread in wax paper and tied a simple bow around them.  Of course I made my brother in law, Randy, his peanut butter balls.

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I made a few basic quilts for my Mom, sister and niece.  I sewed several table runners and napkins.  I talked about the recipe book, here is what I did.  I found a program on cvs.com that let you make a recipe book with a hard bound cover.  You designed it yourself and it was ready in about and hour for pickup at the store.  I usually do my photo books that way too.

I really enjoyed getting ready for Christmas this year.  Cameron and Henry helped me along the way, even Mr. Miller was a good extra hand in the sewing room.

What were some of your handmade gifts this year?

2 comments:

  1. With the baby, I didn't make as much handmade as typical, but I did make some photo-frame Christmas tree ornaments, layer ingredients for cranberry oatmeal drop cookies into mason jars, made granola bars and baked sugar cookies w/ my daughter. Handmade gifts are the best. Last year I made hard cover photo books by Shutterfly, as well as refrigerator magnets and the photo frame ornaments.

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  2. We are going to be in town this weekend at Jeremy's!! Cant wait to see you and your men!! I have some ideas to run by you as well, in the next couple of years I want to stay home and be a mom but I need a project to make a little extra molah on the side as well, and I thought you could help with that and give me a few pointers on saving money!! loves ya!

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