So do you have your handmade presents under control?
The Christmas gathering for one side of the family is this Sunday. That means that by noon on this Sunday, I have some twelve (is it twelve? I have to count now…nope, it is thirteen) handmade gifts done and ready.
Amazingly, as of tonight, I think I am about ready. This is an extraordinary year. This year, I made my choice that I was going to make everything. And I pushed my envelope with a number of items. I worked into the jewelry arena in areas I had not explored previously and I am honestly just thrilled how they turned out.
Come Monday, I will post the photos of what I did and the final result, since by that time the gifts will have already been gifted. At that point, I have to work on my other mother in law (very important to make her a wonderful piece of jewelry as she has been through a lot and I want her to have something very nice) and I get to work on gifts for my sister and my husband. Those are always my favorite gifts to work on, as they can be as outlandish as we want. The two of them are always wonderful sports and are willing to put up with wild craziness all in the name of creativity.
Oh, I love Christmas! I love getting to be creative and getting to share that creativity with others! I cannot wait to post photos of the gifts I made on Monday. I want to share what I have done and hopefully inspire some of you to do the same.
Best wishes. I am off to finish some of the detail work on a few of the gifts. Lots of detail work yet to go, so busy busy work tonight!
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December 17th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
All that, AND you were an excellent babysitter. Such a talented woman!
I hope all went well Yesterday. I was thinking of you!
Kisses!
December 18th, 2007 at 12:07 am
Oh I had so much fun with my little Miss. And I think the Universe (with a capital U, thankyouverymuch) is gifting me with the fact that she is, at one year old, already jewelry obsessed. I see many many afternoons spent at Auntie Kat’s studio already. I say bring it on!
I have already started looking for safe jewelry that can stand up to a one year old. Who knows - I might end up inventing an entire new line of baby safe jewelry for this particular idea. But having her play with my jewelry Saturday made me want to find safe pieces for her to wear herself already.
Yesterday went extremely well, and OF COURSE I forgot to take any damned pictures. So, I am going to email the family and ask for pictures on a one on one basis. I cannot believe I forgot the pictures. Too much excitement I think. Absolutely everyone showed up this time, so we got an all-inclusive family photo finally. Everyone was pretty overwhelmed about that. And everyone seemed pretty thrilled about their jewelry piece, so I was definitely happy about that.