Christmas Preparations Continue

For the past couple of weeks I've been slowly checking things off of my Christmas to-do list. With only 5 days before Christmas, I hope everything gets finished!

Today I made a few tags to attach to gifts to friends in my neighborhood. They were pretty simple, but it felt good to squeeze in a little creative time.

The tag supplies are from the Scrapbook Circle Jingle All the Way Kit.

Tonight we are going to our annual Tarwater Family Christmas party. I live near many cousins, aunts and uncles, but we don't see each other very often. Tonight we will all get together for dinner, singing Christmas songs and a visit from Santa.  Here's a picture of me at the annual family party in 1980 on Santa's lap.

This afternoon Max said, "It's disappointing that the Santa at the family party can't try to look more real. I mean really, garbage bags taped around his shoes for boots? You've got to be kidding me."

Haha! We'll have to hope Santa gets a shoe upgrade for this year's party.

Thanks to Pinterest, I'm taking these Santa Hat Brownies to the party. 

I have several other holiday treat pinned and hope for make a few others sometime soon. Do you love Pinterest as much as I do? I'm always happy when I actually make something that inspired me from that site.

Hope you holiday preparations are going well!

Thankful Bottles, Albums and a Cool Poster

Are you ready for Thanksgiving? I did all of my grocery shopping last night and I'm hoping I didn't forget anything!

I've been busy crafting lately, but I haven't done a great job with taking photos.

One project I've been working on with a friend is a set of seven albums for the teenage girls at church. They are doing a "Be Your Own Kinds of Beautiful" program next week and these will be given to the girls at the end of the night.

I didn't take a photo of the finished albums, but here's a look at them mid-project.


I did a really quick project for the 9 year old girls I teach at church. We had a lesson on being grateful, so I gave each girl a jar they could use to hold slips of paper where they write things they are grateful for. (Sorry for the camera phone photo!)


A couple of days ago I came across this cool Christmas subway sign. Guess what? You can download and print it for free HERE.

I downloaded this print and ordered a poster from Costco. Such a quick and simple decoration!

I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving tomorrow!