Reindeer Card...

Last month I made these mini tablets for the ladies

that attended our monthly ladies meetings.

These are (mostly) single layer fronts,

so for nice, but quick Christmas cards, 

I decided to use some of them for inspiration...

Stamping Christmas Invitations...

Sometimes we just need a simple, one layer project...

especially when it is an invitation being handed out for

the youth department's Christmas play at church.

I started with an invitation printed off from the computer,

then did some stamping with a stamp positioning tool...

Christmas Wreath Card...

Christmas Wreaths can be very beautiful...

but even plain green ones with a simple ribbon

can give a delightful Christmas touch to a space.

It also reminds me of the scene from It's a Wonderful Life

where the kids ask George if he brought home the "Merry Christmas wreath."

Poinsettia Card...

It's World Card Making Day!

So, I'm sharing a Christmas card project with you.

This card was suppose to be posted on Thursday, 

but things just got so hectic that I wasn't able to get it all ready until today!

The inside had a little more process to it than normal too! 

Planning Ahead...

As October draws to an end, the planning for Christmas really kicks into high gear...especially for those of us that enjoy making the presents we plan to give to others throughout the holiday season.

Last week, Liz and I visited a local quilt shop just to browse (and kill time before we needed to be at the library...). The inspiration during this trip was a set of pompom makers and the sample pompom hanging in front them.

They got me to thinking...

Then it got me perusing Pinterest...for ways to make pompoms without buying pompom makers and for projects we can make with the pompoms for Christmas gifts.

I found both! 

The How to make a Wool Pom Pom Wreath and Garland blog post from An Oregon Cottage was probably the most influential pin of my search.

So, the pompom making has begun, but not en mass... hopefully we will pick up the production pace soon and get a good head start on our Creative Christmas!

I have other Christmas plans in the works too... 

Do you? What are your Creative Christmas plans?

"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones." ~ Proverbs 17:22

Amanda

Merry Christmas!

"Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest,

and arise from the dead,

and Christ shall give thee light."

Ephesians 5:14

'Tis the Season...

To decorate the house for Christmas. It was accomplished yesterday ..and today I made a new way to display my annual Wendell August Forge Ornaments.

This is the doorway from our living room into the dining room. The yearly ornaments from Wendell August Forge are gifted to us each year at Thanksgiving by my in-laws. I had been adding them to a wide ribbon that hung on the left door jam. Looked nice but was 'hard' to add new ones to...I hadn't added any since 2008! Not only that, the ribbon was hard to store with the ornaments attached...so this year I decided on a new system!

The larger one in the middle was for our first Christmas...in 2004...the annual ones also start with 2004 and go back and forth out from there, so the even years are on one side and odd on the other :) I'll get to add a new one next week!

A few other decorations... the Christmas village.

The Christmas tree and Stockings.

There are only three stockings, but yes, there are four of us in the family, but I have yet to find one to coordinate well for Amber.  I even bought material last year to make four matching ones...however, the material has been used for other things and I never got around to making them. This morning Liz asked which was hers...technically the cream, but I told her that she and Amber can use the matching ones and Mommy & Daddy can share the cream one...she still thinks there needs to be four...so perhaps I should get on that :) (I not holding my breath though!)

Although I've decorated for Christmas  Thanksgiving is yet to come, so I'll share this picture with you and wish you all a Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving!

Merry Christmas!

May your day be joyful as we celebrate the birth of the Savior,
Jesus Christ the Lord!

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given;

 and the government shall be upon his shoulder:

and his name shall be called

Wonderful,

Counsellor,

The mighty God,

The everlasting Father,

The Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 9:6



Amanda