a great sense of satisfaction...

This Christmas I have been telling you about all the things I have been making and so I thought I would share them all with you.

Our Christmas Tree...

This Christmas is the first one where Asher has been kinda old enough to understand what is going on. So, we decided we would start this year by explaining that Christmas is simply Jesus' birthday! So, when we pulled out the decorations for our tree they seemed rather gaudy and commercial (as I guess most do) and so I thought I would make decorations the old fashioned way, and in doing so I ended up making things look more like a birthday tree instead of the Christmas tree.

This year there are a few extra special things we have added that will become tradition. There are two special little turtle doves whose story I will tell you another day.

The gifts...

I have been so inspired by other blogs and close friends who are so handy and crafty. Therefore, I decided to make some gifts for Asher and his cousins this year...I kinda got the bug for this back when I made a princess crown for a little friend and then a prince's one for Asher.
I got the idea for this little barn from a little gnome house I found here.

Then, because I knew I could make crowns easily I thought that making 5 of them should be a cinch! Also, I got the idea for tutus from Katherine and they too were so easy. (Honestly, even if you can't sew a stich - you could make one!)



Then there was the monkeys! Well as Kt had already made "Albert" she assured me that making these stripey monkeys was REALLY easy! (I have discovered that her REALLY easy is different to mine...

but they were pretty simple)

Mr Murphy (brown monkey) was a little more difficult and I had to do much research and cutting and pasting for him. He still didn't turn out the same but that is ok, I just hope Asher loves him...

Then just when I thought I was done making stuff... the bug bit me again and I put together a very simple wreath!

With all these projects done and dusted you would have thought I'd have had enough, but no!

I have put in an order for a sewing machine for Christmas (and just between you and me I think I may be getting it - thanks to my darling hubby!). So it looks like you will be seeing more... oh and one more thing...

Because I love my sister...

I had a call from Jules my lil sis a few weeks ago and she was telling me she wanted to make Christmas stockings for her two kids and so I gave her some ideas. Then about a week later she asked me how she should put the letter on them, so I told her some more ideas. Then this week whilst at Spotlight I called her to see if she wanted me to pick up some felt for the letters, of course... she did! Then, this morning while I was out I called to ask her something totally unrelated and she ever so sweetly informed me she hadn't actually gotten the pillow cases yet either... so it was then that I uttered the words which I am sure she wanted to hear weeks ago... "Would you like me to make them for you?" Of course... she did! So, this afternoon when Kt and the girls came for a visit we spent a very relaxing hour hand sewing these for Hendrix and Tia!