Merry Christmas

Well, I sure do hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas. I know we sure did around here. We didn't get all the cookies we wanted to baked, but we will as the weeks go on. Instead we spent a week with a kid down with the flu and were trying to stay out of the kitchen so we couldn't spread stuff around....

Since I couldn't get out of the house, I did a few more present making than I thought I would, so I will go ahead and post those too. I made both girls and a six month old little boy we know one of these dolls. If the kids weren't napping right now, I would get a picture of the ones I made, but they have been sleeping with them. I didn't do the hair, I simply made them bald babies. If I were to do them again I would add in the felt style hair like in the Black Apple dolls, but I didn't. I also sewed the seams instead of the tied version cause I thought Zoe couldn't be trusted....

The other gift I made was some brown placemats for grandma. Grandma constantly gets after the kids for touching this or touching that with dirty hands, that it sometimes goes a little too far. So we bought some brown (Excuse me, the proper word according to the website would be espresso) placemats from bed bath and beyond similar to these, and used some antique white paint to add names, year and hand prints for each of the grand kids. I think Grandma really liked them. The idea originally came from Raising Olives website, where she shared how they have all the kids do one tablecloth each year to show the growth throughout the years. Placemats somehow just seemed easier... and since there is no assigned seats at Grandma's house, easy to move about.