I think that most of my cards have arrived at their destination by now, so I think it’s safe to unveil it. Plus I keep trying to shoot a video tutorial of how to tie a bow and the only time Bear is home to help me is well after dark when the lighting is […]
[Continue reading...]Christmas treats for friends and neighbors
December 22, 2008
For years now, we’ve been looking for our Christmas gift niche. The one thing we could make that would be signature and have people angling to be added to our list to get their hands on our special family [fill in the blank]. We know one family who makes a highly coveted salsa, another that […]
[Continue reading...]Family Traditions Tree Skirt
December 20, 2008
This has been one of those projects that lingers around for years. Much like most of the projects in my sidebar. I’ve got all kinds of new year’s goals for those, but we’ll get to that after the holidays. Anyhoo, I’ve been working on this tree skirt for about six years now. I bought about […]
[Continue reading...]Family Goal Ornaments
December 20, 2008
There are so many pieces of our past on this tree, photos throughout the years, ornaments I made during our first year together, Atti’s little footprints, but it was missing a piece of our future. Remember this project I promised would come back around? Now’s the time. Here’s what you’ll need: Some plain ornamentsalphabet stamps […]
[Continue reading...]The remnants of where this tree started.
December 18, 2008
As I’ve mentioned once or twice, I really only kept a few of the original ornaments for this tree. I have a big bag in my garage full of all kinds of messy purple stars and frayed hot pink temari knockoff balls I made after a particularly inspiring episode of Carol Duvall. I don’t really […]
[Continue reading...]Family Photos in our Traditions Tree
December 17, 2008
The ideas behind this Family Traditions tree are pretty common sense. What are some objects that say family? Hearts, monograms, and of course, family photos. Bear also suggested links in a chain, so I think I’m going to incorporate that for next year. I’m still debating if I should do a full on chain garland, […]
[Continue reading...]Paper Ornaments for the Family Traditions Tree
December 17, 2008
In the back of my mind I’ve been wanting to redo this tree for years. But the first batch of ornaments took me so dang long, and I always had some other goal that needed attention, so year after year it went neglected. This year I knew it was time to address this, so I […]
[Continue reading...]Monogrammed Ornaments
December 15, 2008
I had planned to spend today sharing some of the more basic ornaments and giving an in depth look at the tree, but it is pouring rain down here in San Diego and so it is not a day for picture taking. Instead I’ll jump ahead on my calendar and show you how I made […]
[Continue reading...]Family Traditions Tree
December 15, 2008
For Atti’s first Christmas, I got a little carried away and decided that everything needed to be just so. This is what has become of our first tree. The tree that used to be full of all the ornaments I made ten years ago when we were just starting out together, when my crafting skills […]
[Continue reading...]Gift Tags for 2008
December 14, 2008
As I’ll begin showing you tomorrow, I’ve completely revamped our usual Family Traditions tree, and since I was all kinds of excited about it, I had to keep the love going and make the gift tags for this year match the changes. It also helped that I ended up buying a ton of ribbon for […]
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