Posts Tagged ‘ ornament ’

Christmas Day

Brendan and I had a lovely Christmas in Ohio with my family. We were surprised by the amount of presents under the tree. We each had a pretty impressive stack of gifts to open. Jeanette and I worked up a sweat passing out all those presents! Jeanette read the Christmas story in Luke, Rich said a [ READ MORE ]

Homemade Christmas

Sewing has been my new hobby since taking a class with Lelia in the summer. This Christmas, I really wanted to return to simpler things and make most of my gifts. Well, that really didn’t happen as I’d hoped. I think I still need more sewing practice and more time to gather inspiration and ideas [ READ MORE ]

Advent Calendar Tutorial

I love counting down the days until Christmas. Grandpa Leibbrand always had a calendar and daily gift for us. Sometimes Mom would buy the cardboard advent calendars with doors that would reveal a piece of chocolate for each day. I remember sneaking some of the chocolates early. One year we had little box [ READ MORE ]

Ornaments: fall leaves and shoes!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Hobby Lobby has all of its fall items on clearance. I purchased some leaves and a few spools of ribbon. Viola! Ornaments that will remind me of my favorite season: I used a stick from the copse of trees near our apartment and one of my mason jars to [ READ MORE ]