Our holiday crafting has begun. I thought a good place to start was the obligatory hands and feet turkey. Using the leftover felt from The Peacock Halloween costume we fashioned a colorful array of little girl hands and a big ol’ size 7 foot into something that resembled a turkey. I thought about making it a puppet but I didn’t have any cheap old gloves lying around so we used a big popsicle stick left over from birthday crafting gone awry. It cost me absolutely nothing to make this since I had everything lying around, but even if I had bought the supplies it would have been less than $2 to make this. That’s my kind of craft.
Next I thought I would tackle matching Avelyn and Beh-be blankets. Avelyn was torn between a bright pretty floral print and a borderline hideous 70′s style owl print. It was cute but I think if you stared at it too long you might have some sort of fready deaky acid flashback so we went with the flowers in the end. If I had a sewing machine (HINT HINT HUSBAND) I could have sewn the blanket together and in theory had a much better end product, emphasis on the “theory” since the only two things I have sewn in my entire LIFE are a dog pillow and a piece of scrap fabric on which to practice my dog pillow sewing skills. It was just shy of a travesty but the dog didn’t care.
Avelyn’s blanket was a no-sew endeavor. Two pieces of fleece tied together on all four sides. Thus far she has not spit on it or thrown it in the trash so I call that a success. When I finished it last night I told hubby
“I wish I didn’t HATE everything I make once it’s done.”
“Yeah. ME TOO.”
Poor Hubby. I wonder what it’s like to live with someone as crazy AWESOME as me. Probably rad.
I haven’t finished Beh-be’s blanket yet but I did hand sew and stuff a pillow for her. How much you want to bet that Beh-be won’t even say thanks?
On the agenda for the next few weeks:
- Avelyn’s Christmas stocking
- Food made of felt (I’m kind of into felt these days, in case you haven’t noticed)
- Christmas cards
- Snowmen (of the not-made-of-ice variety since we live in Texas, and it’s currently in the 70′s)
- Decorating cookies
- Ornaments
- Finger puppets
- Whatever else I come up with along the way.
With Avelyn growing up I finally have an excuse to make all these fun crafts I’ve always wanted to do. I hope she will enjoy it as much as I do and if not, there’s always cookie bribery. This having kids thing is too much fun.
Do you have any fun things planned for the holiday season?
Ditto on “this having kids thing is too much fun!” Crafts rock! so do Kids!!!
Oh, duh, ps— Nice pillow and blankies for the buh-be
love what you’ve been crafting! thanks for sharing your rad ideas:)
Ok, you’re totally upstaging me with your super cute crafts and spending time with your child. Come on lady, we are a night working team!
But the turkey is totally cute.
It’s amazing what I can do with 4 nights off
I’m totally stealing the turkey idea. Too cute.
You are totally giving Martha a run for her money. And I’m stealing the turkey idea, too cute.
I was thinking this Christmas, of finally passing on my “Craft” books that I used for all you kids. I was saving for Steppie, but hey… whatever. Do you want them? If so, just say “YES!”
Withdrawals…. I am having blogging withdrawals… please, post soon!