Apron and Tea Towels

A Christmas gift for a friend.

Simplicity Pattern 3670. Not sure I'm totally in love with this pattern
I picked up some tea towels from my craft store and added some fabric to match her apron. Loved this and will be making more in the future.

Christmas Cards

It's been driving me crazy that I don't have a spot for our Christmas cards to be displayed. We recently purchased a dishwasher and the frame below was in the box. A little bit of fabric, a staple gun, and a picture frame hanger turned this simple and free (with the purchase of a dishwasher) wood frame into a Christmas card holder.

Not fancy but definitely functional. I'm a happy girl!

December Daily: 2-5

I have been taking a few pictures here and there and realized I needed to get them into page form or it would never happen. I really am loving digital templates. I can always go back and add "real" stuff onto the pages later.

December 2 & 3:

(I combined the two days because I didn't have a ton of pics and I really didn't want Julia's mouth to take up an entire page.)

December 4th:

December 5th:

Products I used to create these layouts:

Templates by: Creativity by Design and Ali Edwards (Bread and Butter)

Paper: Michelle Martin Papers: Bergen Paper Pack

Embellishments: Katie Pertiet Crystallized Flourishes

Coffee Filter Foof

I saw the Coffee Filter Foof on the website Jones Design Company. If you are not following her blog you should. I love the clean lines/simplicity of her designs. Well back to the Foof. I decided I wanted to try and make one.

I had a little trouble with the hot glue. My coffee filters were not staying on. Looking back at the tutorial pictures I wonder if I didn't cut enough of the tip off.

So instead I used both hot glue and straight pins. Once I started using the pins I had better luck. See the little grey dots?
Julia helped me fold the coffee filters for this project. When she got bored I showed her how to cut out snowflakes from the coffee filters.

I also cheated a little and did not fill the entire styrofoam ball. See below. I used liquid nails to adhere my hook. I'm hoping it will hold up.
She probably still needs a little sculpting but I can't wait to hang it up in Julia's room. I might even make a few more in different sizes. This one took me probably 200 coffee filters and two nap sessions.
Thank you Emily for the tutorial!

December Daily

I'm toying with the idea of creating a December Daily 2010 album. I love Ali Edwards scrapbooking stuff. Since I'm pretty new to digital scrapbooking, her templates are the ones that I am drawn to for their ease of use. She plans on creating a 6x8 this year. The DD templates that I have are 12x12 and were purchased at DesignerDigitals.com. If I print one out for each day it will cost about 75 bucks for the entire album. So I might do some pages the traditional way instead of just all digital pages. And then again, I just might create all digital pages but simply upload them to a CD/DVD and have them as a slide show.

12.01.10: Day 1