Week 2 February Craft Group

Today we tried our hand at embroidery. Momma found a really cute website that sells patterns. It was lots of fun, but not something I would take up full time! Mine is called "Monster Speaks". You should check out the webpage http://www.urbanthreads.com.

Petits Fours

Monday, my friend Marissa and I made petits fours for Valentine's day. Here is my half. It was so much fun and they are yummy!
Happy Valentine's Day!!

February Craft Group

As many of you know, I host our Ward's (church's) weekly craft group. This month we're decorating onesies! Today was our first effort. We did iron on transfers. They turned out sooooo cute!! I was so excited by how cute and yet so easy they were! I have to give credit to PCCrafter.com for their adorable artwork as well. I have 6 onesies left to and it's a good thing that my friend Melissa took the transfer sheets home, or I would have to buy more onesies for next weeks craft. Keep and eye out for more pictures of our decorating efforts. We're tie-dying, potato stamping & embroidering.

Our craft group with our finished products.

A close up of the fronts.

Of course, I had to decorate the backs too. More is never too much!!

Our Christmas

Ok, so we took a lot of pictures this Christmas. I just upgraded to Picasa 3 and it has a slideshow feature. So I thought I would make a slide show of all our pictures. We had a great holiday season, and really enjoyed our cookie making and delivering this year. A big thanks to Jenny Orchard for the edible ball bearings (dragees to you non-Dr watchers) and edible glitter! They really set off our spritz cookies. Christmas eve was fun. We did a little carolling and then we watched Get Smart. Too fun! Christmas morning started with taking care of the animals, of course. They can be soooo demanding. Ü After they started their special breakfast we were able to settle in around the tree. Now the presents are open, dinner is in the oven, and we are getting ready to spend the evening with friends playing games. We hope all of you had as wonderful of a season as we had!

Mia playing with her Christmas mice

I couldn't resist taking a couple of videos of Mia playing with her Christmas mice. She was just too cute! Of course, as you see in the first one, having the camera at her level can be even more interesting then the mice.

Christmas Around the House

I decided to take some pictures of our Christmas decorations around the house. I'll try to remember to go out at night and take some pictures of the outside decorations. I LOVE THEM! I really think that we have a chance to win the neighborhood holiday decoration contest this year. Of course I am a little biased. Maybe I'll take pictures and have you vote.

We downsized the tree this year, so I couldn't even put half the decorations on it, but it's still really pretty.

I love my mantel! It's so pretty in silver, glass & red.

This is as far as I've gotten with the Christmas cards. Hopefully they will make it out in the next couple of days.

The tree here was crocheted by my dear friend, Jenny Orchard. She's so talented. Check out her blog at justjennys.blogspot.com Thanks for the tree Jenny!

The snowmen are invading the upstairs!! This is my shelf at the top of the stairs. If you look close, you can see that I need to repair one poor snowman whose nose fell off!

I love window clings! These little Santa's jumped into my cart on a recent Walmart trip! That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Also, you get to see the snow on my patio.

I really like this table with some of my nativity and angel decorations.