FINISHED #6

I'm pleased to let you all know that our baby, Miss Kate, will now have a stocking for Christmas. She is only 7 1/2... don't laugh!!!

She is so excited to have her completed stocking!

 A closer up picture

The crazy penguin... His eyes are a bit kooky!

I have to say that I am just as excited as Kate is. It's taken me a couple of movies (okay... a lot of movies) with the family to get this project finished. It had a total of 138 pieces that had to be cut and attached... Quite a lot of work and definitely the hardest stocking out of the 5 to do. Whew! 

FINISHED #5

Another project is finished. Over 3 years ago, I asked my mom to paint these frames for me. I had painted them an orange originally for stamping clubs and classes. I was thinking at the time that a chocolate brown color would be heavenly.

When I mentioned that I was finishing projects, she asked if I was going to finish the frames. Honestly, I had completely and totally forgotten all about these frames and didn't know what she was talking about until she showed me.

So, here they are in classic black. They are magnetic so that Faith can hang up quotes, reminders, and more up on them and change them out often. We also found these awesome decorations at Bed Bath and Beyond. They were super easy to put up and gives the room more character.

FINISHED #4

Spoiler alert for all of my neighbors! Project #4 is completed and finished.

In 2007 or 2008, I saw an adorable spider ornament from my sister's mother in law. I decided to create these for friends and neighbors, but ran into all sorts of problems that I won't bore you with. When I decided to really dig in and find the necessary supplies, I ended up having to order extra leg beads, and twice had to order the body beads (I ordered the wrong size). I went on 4 different trips to find the googly eyes, but finally ordered them on Etsy!

In the end, I have created 28 homemade spiders and 28 homemade webs. This means 508 beads, 224 pieces of pipe cleaners, and 56 googly eyes, silver thread, and lots of hot glue. No fingers were harmed in the making of these spiders.

Here is what the saying says:
"According to a Ukrainian tradition ... having a spider web on your Christmas Tree is considered a sign of goo luck, and having a spider in your tree is a symbol of love. A poor woman and her family could only afford a Christmas Tree - no decoration, no presents. Before going to bed on Christmas Eve the family had noticed a spider weaving a web in the tree. When they awoke the next morning the tree was covered with the spider's web and as the morning light shone on the tree, the web turned to silver and gold."

Each spider

in their wrapping

And all 28 right after I finished in my kitchen!

I am actually so excited to have our Christmas gifts all ready for our wonderful neighbors and friends in February! I think that this might have to become a new tradition to take more stress out of the holidays!

FINISHED #3

Another of my unfinished is now finished. Here is Dawson's store bought stocking. I think that it's actually very cute and he likes it, so that's all that matters, right?

Right before I finished his stocking, Dawson came to me with tears in his eyes and said that he didn't want to give up this stocking because it had so many memories. I assured him that he could keep both of them, and he was happy with that.

This was the most difficult part - to fit his name on this small snowflake.

The ornaments around the reindeer were challenging as well.

And I love the snowman and Santa!

Here is the whole stocking with Dawson smiling!

Yeah! So happy to have another project finished and checked off my list!

FINISHED #1 & #2

Well I am happy to report, I DID IT!!! I finished the 2 books that I started in 2012!

The Dark and Hollow Places is probably going to be best if you just stick to reading all 3 of the series together. The 3rd book in the series is the hardest to read. It is just dark and sad, with little to no hope! I've definitely had enough of zombies and Apocalypse for awhile!!! 

I also ran this back to my friend and neighbor! Wahoo for me!

A Touch of Magic was a quick book overall. I bought this one when it was free on Kindle. I probably wouldn't pay anything for this one. The first part is hard because there are 2 or 3 chapters that are explaining different terms of magic Randall is trying to learn. It's hard to keep straight. Then the last 2 or 3 chapters are just really rushed. And I have to say I was hoping that it ended different. (I don't want to spoil it for you.)

Now that I have finished these 2 books, I think that I am going to work on finishing Dawson's stocking, since I think that it will be the easiest to complete and I want motivation on my side!