Hello there!! Happy Sunday! It's been a busssssssy weekend over here.....filled with lots of Christmas-y things like Christmas parties w/church friends, delivering treats here and there, visiting my Grandmas, etc. Lots of busy, but the good kind of busy. I'm happy to be home now with my fuzzy slippers on, feet up, fire in the fireplace, Christmas tree lights glowing and a puppy & hubby at my side. (Or under foot, as the case may be.....the puppy, that is.....the hubby's not under foot.) Ha.
One of the things we love to do each year is deliver some sort of little treats to each of the neighbors in our cul-de-sac. I had great fun this year, dressing up simple kraft gift bags to hold those gifts. I also created little coordinating cards to tuck in to each one. For today, I thought I'd show you those gift bags, in case you want to use the supplies in your studio to dress up some gift bags for yourself this week.
I used one of my Damask Snowflake dies to cut out a rustic cream snowflake. On it, I added a scalloped tag that was cut from new leaf card stock with a limitless layers die and topped it with my favorite tag from the 2011 Holiday Tags stamp set, stamped in hawaiian shores ink.
The large hawaiian shores "tag", was cut with the wine bottle tag die. I simply cut the top, rounded portion off of the tag. I used one of the wonderful words: holiday dies to cut out the "merry" and stamped the "& bright" from the Wonderful Words: Holiday stamp set using ripe avocado ink.
Don't they look so cute all lined up in a row? Heeee.....
I'll be back tomorrow to show you the little coordinating cards I tucked into each gift. We had so much fun delivering these to each of our dear neighbors. We took Windsor along while to help us play Santa. You should have seen him sitting patiently on each porch, while we waited for someone to come to the door at each house. Sweet boy. He just knew if he sat like a good boy, he'd get some lovin' as soon as someone answered the door!
So I dug out another old skein of yarn from the closet......you know, from a past crafty project that never happened. You don't have any supplies like that at your house, do you? Craft supplies that you bought but never got used for one reason or another? I'm sure I'm the only one that has stuff like that in the closet. :) It's ok though, because I'm finally gonna use this bright gold skein of yarn (WHY did I buy this again? Oh yes, I think it was because I was attempting to make yarn pom-poms to put on our suitcases to make them easily identifiable in the sea of luggage at the airport. WHY would I want yarn pom-poms -- in Kansas City Chiefs football colors, no less (red/gold) -- on my suitcase, I ask you? Perhaps because I was planning to make Bart some suitcase pom-poms in purple and white in honor of his beloved Kansas State University Wildcats.) Thank goodness that project never actual came to fruition! LOL. And now that this yarn has sat, sad and unused, in the closet for 7 or 8 years, it will now be put to good use (sort of) as I use it to learn and practice the half double crochet stitch. I've now crocheted my way thru an entire skein of old white yarn (single crochet stitch) and crocheted my way thru an entire skein of old red yarn (double crochet stitch). I will now half-double crochet my way thru this lovely, lovely, extremely bright gold yarn. :) Wish me luck! Haha. Never mind that I'm not making anything actually usable. The point is, I'm practicing the stitch a millionty times over and I'm having fun "crocheting" while I'm at it!
I also bought some scrummmmmy wool blend yarn in a gorgeous shade of winter white. I just look at it every day. Once in awhile I touch it to remind myself of how soft it is (in comparison to this horrible old yarn I've been using from the closet - lol!). I keep telling myself that one day, I will make something beautiful with that winter white yarn. One day. Just as soon as I learn a few more crochet stitches. If you'll excuse me now, I must run to YouTube to see if I can find a half double crochet tutorial. :)
Wishing you a lovely finish to your Sunday evening.....and if you're on the other side of the world and it's already Monday for you, then I wish you a very happy Monday!
xoxo,
{Neighbor Gift Bag supplies -- click on thumbnails}
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