Here is the felt advent calender done! It took forever but I think it looks pretty good.

Here are some of the sugar cookies Carly and I made last Saturday- they were so good!

I started the knitted baby blanket but then relized that it was not wide enough so here is where i stopped and pulled it all out.

And here is what i nave redone of it so far- it has double the stiches across so it should be plenty wide

I was pretty productive last night. Here are the napkin holders done- I held them together with black cording and added a few beads I think they look pretty good- I want them to stand on the plates- I'll see how that goes.




I finished the first 5 days of the felt advent calender ornaments- they take about 30 min each- all of the embrodery on each one, and then adding the backs just takes a while.



The Picture below is of the Nativity Scene pattern- I am modifiying
it a little so that it will be a banner and not free standing and I am hoping in future years to add shepherds, 3 kings and an angel- so it will be a whole set but this year it will only be the holy family.



Here is my advent calender that I made on Veterns day- it was supposed to have shriky dink charms inside but they failed me- the holes closed up and they curled and got too small so now I need to modify it to make it something cool again- I am thinking about printing up little things to do and think about and sticking them under each flap.

Well I got a little done on the felt advent calender but the ornaments take a long time so that will be a slow process.

For our Thanksgiving napkins I made these fall leaves to use as napkin holders with a little black cording and a few beads I think they will look really neat.

I worked hard on the felt Advent calendar this weekend- the picture above is what it looked like on Saturday Morning and the below is what was done this morning when I left for work ( the candy cane goes down on the bottom by the lights but its not done yet)


So far it has taken about 24 total hours, and i think i have close to that much more, but its been a lot of fun.

While I was working on it this weekend, my mom was digging around in a drawer in the hallway and found a very cool pattern for a simple nativity scene- they are supposed to be stuffed and be ahnd puppets but I want to make them on to a banner, so another thing to work on this season.

I think I am going to try and turn this in to a crafty
blog- I need a place to write about what I am working on so I figure this would be the place to do it.



I made those paper beads a few weeks ago. I found a paper bead kit at Michaels that is put out by Martha Stewart, I made that kit up but then I made a template and have made many more beads in many differnt colors.