This year for Christmas I had a genious idea that I would make everyone's presents. And, I had this idea like 3 days before Thanksgiving.
3. Days. Before. Thanksgiving.
This gave me approximately three weeks to complete about 14 presents. It helped that I have a small addiction with this website and especially this website... so I've saved a million and a half crafty things I have mentally put on an impossibly long to-do list. And, I mean impossibly long.
So, on Black Friday, I frantically scoured the racks at JoAnn's with my sister-in-law where I scored major, major deals (like flannel for $1.98/yd and minky fleece for $4.95/yd), all the while creating beautiful and wonderful things in my head that everyone would cherish and love for years to come. I thought I was pretty much invincible when it came to sewing. And, while thinking these crazy thoughts, I was also thinking, "I'll stay up during naptime--after working until 1am the night before--I'll stay up all night if I have to... I did it all the time when I was 19/20. That wasn't that long ago."
Yeah. Right.
Stay up during naptime. Ha! Let alone, "stay up all night?". Is it just me, or has every single mom since having a baby, actually dreamed of sleeping... because I do. There are days that I can't wait to get to just because I know I can actually lay down and take a nap.
Anyway, so I planned on making all these beautiful things for everyone for Christmas. I had it set in my mind that it was going to be a "hand-made Christmas". This only happened for a few people this year. Shocking, I know. Next year will be better planned.
But, I still wanted to write about the ones I did do. So, this entry is about Mom's and Jenni's fabric boxes. I had "pinned" all these different blogs on how to make different fabric boxes and they looked like so much fun and my family and I have this problem with accumulations of small and various odds and ends and need cute little things to hide them in.
Excuse the lack of amazing photos!
Jen's boxes... yellow, her favorite color.
And, Mom's boxes. Green, her favorite color. I've forgotten how to set up the photos so they look nice, since it's been so long since I've actually written anything here. But, there you have it. Part 1 of home-made Christmas! I wish my camera took better pics so you can see the details of the boxes... but, so be it. Maybe next year Santa won't forget about me.... ;)
Yeah. Right.
Stay up during naptime. Ha! Let alone, "stay up all night?". Is it just me, or has every single mom since having a baby, actually dreamed of sleeping... because I do. There are days that I can't wait to get to just because I know I can actually lay down and take a nap.
Anyway, so I planned on making all these beautiful things for everyone for Christmas. I had it set in my mind that it was going to be a "hand-made Christmas". This only happened for a few people this year. Shocking, I know. Next year will be better planned.
But, I still wanted to write about the ones I did do. So, this entry is about Mom's and Jenni's fabric boxes. I had "pinned" all these different blogs on how to make different fabric boxes and they looked like so much fun and my family and I have this problem with accumulations of small and various odds and ends and need cute little things to hide them in.
Excuse the lack of amazing photos!
Jen's boxes... yellow, her favorite color.
And, Mom's boxes. Green, her favorite color. I've forgotten how to set up the photos so they look nice, since it's been so long since I've actually written anything here. But, there you have it. Part 1 of home-made Christmas! I wish my camera took better pics so you can see the details of the boxes... but, so be it. Maybe next year Santa won't forget about me.... ;)
