Merry Christmas

Sorry, no Christmas card this year, but enjoy this creation:






















Please also enjoy this Christmas album (some people from Joplin, MO). You can either just listen online or download it for free! Enjoy by clicking here!

The legendary lego advent calendar

So here's a few shots of Waymond Legendary Lego Advent Calendar. Sorry, no baby Jesus people! He has been enjoying opening a box every day. I guess it's making a City scene. He's let me open two! I feel honored!!

The Gingerbread House

This is really our only tradition, making a Gingerbread house each year. I'm not exactly sure how we got started doing it, but we've been doing it for the last eleven years!! Here's this year's masterpiece.

I personally like the addition of the coconut on the roof. It's the first time we've done that. And, you can't really tell, but we have icing and coconut on the ground. It looks like snow.

Christmas Decorating

We finally took a moment to put up our Christmas tree and Christmas decorations. It took us all of about 30 minutes! Needless to say we have few decorations and our tree is about 3 feet high and is pre-lit. I like it that way!

My friend Stacy made the pink star at the top. It's really cute!











These are ornaments, but I put them on the mantel because they are just so darn cute! It's funny that I think snowmen are so cute, but I don't like snow at all. Funny.

The bazaar

The craft bazaar didn't go too well, yesterday. There were plenty of vendors, the place was full; however one major problem, not many other people came! We had a couple of friends stop by and I think a few people from the neighborhood stopped by but not many other people! Our biggest hit, which was a second thought were the crayon's Waymond & I made. I think because some people had kids with them it was an easy and cheap thing for their kids to have! At the end of the day I did only have one bag left, which was nice. But I only sold one journal! Sad!




























Our table looked great! And I had a good time with Stacy & Waymond all day, but it would have been nice to sell a few more things!
































Stacy made some awesome polar fleece hats and 12th men scarves. I thought they'd be gone super quickly, but I guess we didn't have that clientele.



















Waymond made us these handy racks to hang our bags & scarfs on!

New item

Waymond's mom bought us composter! I'm so excited to fill it!

Craft Bazaar

Me and a girl at work, Stacy, are sharing a table at a Craft Bazaar this Saturday the 5th! I'm excited, but have been busy trying to get all my projects wrapped up. Waymond has been a HUGE help! Here's some photos. Plus I'm making some bags & Stacy is making onesies, baby booties and scarves. I'll take some more photos on Saturday.

Lego calendar day one

Here's Waymond opening his first door of his Lego advent calendar!















It's the guy on the left in the picture. He has "snow balls."















We also got a Lego Christmas tree ornament @ the Lego store! But since our tree isn't up yet we've set it up on the calendar.

Been a bit busy

I know it's been a while since a post, but I've been busy makes stuff for a craft show I'm doing with a friend. I've mainly been making journals, but will be sewing a few bags this week.

My mom & brother are in town for Thanksgiving. Here's a few pictures.

New find

I was at Cost-co the other day picking up a few things for work, church & home and ran across gummy multi-vitamins for adults! I thought they only had them for kids, so I picked up a bottle for my husband who has the hardest time remembering to take anything remotely in pill form. He's had two a day without fail since I've brought them home! He's not missed a day! He's a fan of gummy fruit snacks so this is just bonus that it actually have vitamins in it!

Garlic

I planted some garlic a couple of weeks ago and it's already sprouted! I actually planted some more today so I'm hoping it all does well over the winter. My dad was the one to tell me that you can plant garlic in the fall for a spring harvest. As much garlic as we eat I could have planted it over the entirety of our beds and it wouldn't be too much! Our garlic always did well in Kansas City so I figured since we live in a place now where it doesn't nearly get as cold that it will do OK too. We shall see! If the weather stays nice (or at least a bit sunny) I may plant some more this week. I'm serious we eat a lot of garlic!

Last day

Today is Waymond's last day at the Tacoma Art Museum. I think he's sad about it! He's enjoyed working with an entire staff that has an appreciation for art - even if they are the bookkeeper. We'll see what happens from here!

Second round

We had more apples so we thought we would do another round of apple butter. We tried a different recipe this time and it is WAY more intense in the spice realm! We had some for breakfast this morning.

The potatoes

The ground dried out at least a bit so we harvested the last of the potatoes. Our last trash can had Yukon Gold potatoes in them and they are much bigger than the red ones. Our sweet potatoes weren't a huge success. We did get some, but they weren't very big. A couple looked like a sweet potato you would buy in the store only in miniature form! We'll eat them anyway! Here's a few pictures of the dumping on the trash can of Yukon Gold:













This big one was just under the dirt on top so Waymond pulled it out before he turned the whole trash can out.

The newest creation

I found this website (http://alifosterpatterns.com) where you can purchase patterns (bags mostly) and then download the pattern and instructions to your computer. I purchased & downloaded one yesterday. I had this orange fabric I bought from Ikea and I really liked it but wasn't sure if it would look good as a bag. But I went for it. I didn't have any fabric to line the bag with so I used one of Waymond's old dress shirts that he had in the Goodwill pile (which is shrinking quickly because I keep using them to make stuff). I loved the shirt, but he never did. So now it's the inside of my new bag. I really love it! Don't tell but I'm going to make a bag for my Grandma for her birthday. And, Lauren I haven't forgotten that you want one! I've been having such a great time with my sewing machine. I'm not good enough to just make stuff up but who knows - maybe some day!