Christmas is coming!!!!!

Oh man, I’m soooo excited for Christmas this year. Our lil runt is 15 months old now and I know she’s going to be excited but for now, we’re itching for the day and she doesn’t even know what’s coming, lol.

We haven’t put up a Christmas tree though, because where we normally put the tree is now Kenna’s play corner. I just hate to move her toys and then when she wants to ‘play’ with the Christmas tree, she gets in trouble. I can just see her baffled look, “Well, it’s my corner!” Soooo, we’re going to buy a small tree to put up on the bar and next year I think she’ll be old enough to understand why it’s not her toy corner for the month. Buuut on a side note, hopefully we can eliminate said toy corner. Travis and I were talking just this morning about building her a toy box!!!! This is a huge feat for him. He is NOT a carpenter but a mechanic. Two completely different spectrums, lol. I think it will be fun though. Anywho, I digress. Sunday night, Kenna crashed extremely early. I’m talking about a nap at 4ish, wake her up at 5ish, she goes back to sleep 6ish! She was not having us trying to keep her awake (so she wakes us up at 3:30 a.m. to ‘play’). So, I had a chance to hang some Christmas decorations. I got up our door hanger, the Christmas cross stitch and samplers, and a few knick knacks. No pictures of said decor sadly but it does have me in the mood to craft some and to get some projects going that I already have the supplies for!

freshpoppydesign.blogspot.com via Lauren Mistrot on Pinterest

I think this would be a great idea for the living room!

theinspiredroom.net via Danielle Grimes on Pinterest

I love the idea above because I was just telling Trav when we were out in the craft shed that I wanted to drag out the tiny ornament balls to put in my little cloche I bought from the thrift store last month. I just need to spray paint the base first.

From frenchflea.blogspot.com via Taylor on Pinterest

I love this tree. I love the holds. I love the shutters. Yeap, mad love =)

From bhg.com via Angela on Pinterest

Oh, man! Don’t you absolutely LOVE this fat tree in a bucket!!!

Printable from 1.bp.blogspot.com via Nicole on Pinterest

Simple and natural feeling. From bhg.com via Donna Funky Junk Interiors via Centsational Girl on Pinterest

This is so neat! Glued ornaments to disc, took out metal hanger, added blooms. So simple and still pleasing to the eye. From bhg.com.

Also from bhg.com, they took a stick, drilled tiny holes, inserted pipe cleaners. Very thrifty!

From craftcritters.blogspot.com via Kristin (me) via Amy on Pinterest

Man, I can’t wait! We actually have most of our Christmas shopping done, which is a first for us so now it’s a waiting game and it is making me that more anxious, lol.

Happy holidays!

'Tis the Season (Con't)

My Christmas decorations have been up since Thanksgiving Eve, lol, but I finally

got them up on Blogger!This is my homemade tree topper. The star was a cheap $1.99 Fourth of July star I got from Beall's Outlet. Pretty satisfied for my first tree topper =)My favorite thing about Christmas is all the ornaments I got from my granny. It feels like I'm hanging a memory for each ornament! I love you, Gern!I made this tree when I lived with Gern, about third grade, I believe. On the back, youo can see where I wrote "I love you mom" and then changed it to "I love you grandmom." You can see I was a gern girl ;) (Side note: I love you mom! =)

Kristin's Holiday Wish List

Mama's Holiday Wish Meme

TodaysMama and Provo Craft are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I'm sharing this meme with you.

1. What five items are on your holiday wish list this year?

That would be a Cricut Expression
An insulated storage shed that I can turn into a craft room
A wireless broadband router
A couple of gallons of paint and primer to tackle my living room walls
An embroidery machine

2. What is your favorite handmade gift you have received?

My little magnets that Amy made. There made from those little glass flat marble thingies, with scrapbook paper on the back, and a magnet, of course. They're proudly displayed on my fridge!

3. What handmade gift have you always wanted to tackle?

A quilt! I've always tried to start one but never finished...

4. What was the best Christmas gift you received as a child?

I was always excited to come up and visit my granny, papa, and my mom for Christmas. After my dad and us had our Christmas on Christmas day, my granny would come down and get us and we'd travel the four hours to visit for a week. It was the best gift and we looked forward to it each year.

5. What item are on your kid's wish list this year?

Well, no kids here, but my niece, Kelsea, fills that gap! She definitely wants the Tinkerbell movie that came out last year. I wanna get somebody one of those cool marshmallow shooters!

6. What is your favorite holiday food?

What is not my favorite, lol! I love my mom's homemade peanut butter (hold the nuts) cookie dough! No need to cook it =) I also love my Aunt Linda and Gern's peanut butter cookies (cooked) and homemade peanut butter fudge!!!! YUMMY! Can you see a pattern here, lol?

7. What will you be hand-crafting for the holidays?

I have a couple projects I want to do. One involving a Mason jar. I also want to do a few wooden letter projects for Christmas presents. I also want to make a tiered cupcake/cookie tray out of stove top covers...

8. What is your favorite holiday movie?

I love all the movies that ABC Family and Hallmark run. One of my favorites is Santa Claus with Tim Allen. It's a cute one!

9. Favorite holiday song?

"All I Want For Christmas is You"

10. Favorite holiday pastime?

Putting up the Christmas tree and decorations around the house!