December Projects

I love Christmas and especially the projects that come with it!  My friend Wendy and I decided to make wooden trees for the December craft night.  We had quite a few girls come and had a great time.  Everyone's tree turned out so cute. This craft night business is a lot of work but it always ends up being great and is the perfect chance to socialize with other women with out kids!  These trees are 2x4’s cut at different sizes and stacked on their side with paper modge podged on. This is mine and one for my Mom.

This is not really a Christmas craft but whatever.  I discovered this old window pane at my aunt’s house and asked if I could steal it.  I get some hemp twine stuff, glue guned it on and a picture holder is made.  I spray painted the little clothes pins so they would stand out a bit.  I hate that it has to hang on a white wall but sadly renting equals no painting.

And isn’t sad that I had to search my house to find these three pictures (one is our own Christmas card from last year).  One bad thing about digital cameras is that you never have pictures lying around (at least I don’t).

Pintrest inspired me to make a felt tree for Addison.  The picture of the tree had a little girl just playing and playing with the tree.  I thought “this could really entertain Addi, probably need it”.  I dashed to Joanns, purchased lots of felt, put Addi down for a nap and started cutting and glue gunning. After many burns I finally finished.  I need to find a better way to hang it on the wall because my packing tape just is not quite holding up.  Anyways I was so excited for Addison to try it out.  I placed her in front of the tree and she walked away.  I was not about to give up.  I should her how to take the ornaments off and put them back on.  She still does not play with it as much as I would wish. Maybe she is a bit too young. 

Every time I walked by all the ornaments are on the floor so I pick them up and put them back on the tree.  I figured they just kept falling off, not true. One time as I was putting them all on Addison came by and started ripping them off and saying no each time I tried to put them on.  Apparently she likes naked trees.

This has nothing to do with Christmas but Addison finally says Mom and means it!  She usually only says it when she needs help or wants to be held but I will take what I can get.