I already shared the beautiful Advent Calendar Michael’s mother gave us for Christmas, and mentioned in that thread there were a couple of other hand-made gifts she sent us as well.

One is this apron she made for {A}.  When {A} talked to Grandma on the phone on Christmas Day, {A} said, that Grandma said, that she was inspired by our gifts to them last year, including their aprons.   She rather enjoyed making gifts too!  We rather enjoyed receiving them, and they mean a lot to us.

She took an already made apron, and ‘made it her own’.  (And then gave it away. lol). She added the cute… (READ MORE......) | 5 Comments

My mother-in-law/Michael’s mother/(the kid’s grandmother, if you are not catching on to who I am referring to yet..lol), seemingly got quite crafty this year, and we surely benefited from her doing so, in the way of wonderful gifts this Christmas!

A package full of goods arrived from Florida in early December, but there was one that we were instructed to open right away.  So we did, and I literally gasped, and naturally, because I am becoming more of a sap with each passing day in my older years here, teared up.  I guess I kept saying, “Oh my gosh….I LOVE that!”….because Michael said, “We KNOW Honey.  We HEARD you.  You LOVE it!”  lol.  He loves it too.  We immediately started discussing where we could hang it.… (READ MORE......) | 3 Comments

We believe this is the last craft to reveal.  It was actually one of the first we made.  Probably one of the least creative, which may be why I saved it for last. lol.

If you all recall this header:

And husband/Daddy, learning how to use the machine and sew, all in about 2 minutes, (and then hogging the machine, because he was having so much fun)……….

…..while the ‘other kids’ were working at the other end of the table…….

He did let {A} get in there… (READ MORE......)

We’ve been doing more crafts than usual around here lately, as Christmas gifts.  I’m way behind in blogging about them, but in thinking about that I realized in a different light….they are Christmas gifts!!  Surprise gifts, of course. Granted, the recipients,,,our extended family….rarely visit our blog. If ever.  But, you know, they MIGHT.  And we really don’t want to ruin their Christmas surprises.  So…..I guess I just won’t post the finished products, until maybe after Christmas, and if anyone concerned visits and guesses what we made, oh well!!

So for one of our first projects a few crafting Sunday’s ago, we were discussing what and how we were going to do what we were going to do.  The… (READ MORE......) | 1 Comment