Christmas 2011-Giving

I had a fabulous Christmas. Got to enjoy some quality time with my family as well as my husband. It was relaxing and cozy, everything I ever want Christmas to be.


Now that Christmas is over I can show you some of the things I made for Christmas.

Doctor Who travel mugs. These I was actually willing to buy but I couldn't find any that weren't ridiculously expensive. These are for my in-laws (hubby's sister and her husband) I paired these with a jar of  peppermint hot cocoa that we made.

As I've said before Doctor Who is very popular in my family. Also my brother-in-law is a truck driver so I wanted to make sure we gave him something he could actually use. This is what we came up with. I directed this one and my hubby used his photo shop skills to make it happen. We wanted to keep these.

Another embellished T-shirt. This time for my 4 year old cousin. He loves all things Thomas the Train and his initial happens to be T.

These onesies are for his little sister. She was born November 16th and is adorable.

There's a few other things that may get pictures taken of but I'll leave it at this for now.

I have another post to write on the awesome quilting related gifts I got as well as the purse my husband made me! yes made, all by himself. It's beautiful.

Hope everyone had a great holiday.

Snicklefritz

For the last year I took care of  two 2 year olds from two different families. My nick names for them were Snicklefritz and Sassafras. They would respond to it if I said it to try and get their attention and they would say it if you asked them what their name was. It was adorable and made me smile. 

Snicklefritz's birthday is the 14th of this month and Sassafras is the 23rd. Yes they are only 9 days apart, yes it was kinda crazy at times but I love those kids. 

For their 3rd birthdays I decided to make them gifts. Here's what I came up with for Snicklefritz, he loves all things Dr. Seuss. His mom took him to see Seussical the musical over the summer and it made his obsession all the worse. 

Front

Back

(forgive the cruddy cell phone pics, I'm impatient. My battery is dead on my camera and getting photos off the hubby's camera sometimes takes to long to actually happen)

I love embellishing plain t-shirts its quick, inexpensive, personal and just so dang cute. 

Hoo Hoo

A little sneak peek of some cards I making for a craft boutique I'm participating in on Saturday

elephant

It was my sister-in-laws Birthday on Sunday and as always I'm in need of a belated birthday card. She loves elephants and since apparently I'm on an appliqué note card roll an elephant card it was.

The fabric is from a charm pack of Za Za by Erin Michael for Moda that I have.