Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Christmas crafts and projects...

Today I have been working on projects for Christmas Eve (we're hosting)...We are doing a birthday party for Jesus...cupcakes, treat bags and other goodies. These are the placemats for the kiddos... Logan and I decorated the dining room with paper chains...which we made while Mason and Mya were napping...

Tonight I pieced together ornaments to use as placecards. I think I am going to write each person's name on the roofline of the stable. Fortunately our Christmas Eve is just immediate family so I only had to make 10 or so...I must confess that I got the craft kits from Oriental Trading (kind of cheating) but I still had to assemble the WHOLE thing...stick by stick and person by person...I have a couple of welts from the hot glue gun. Just as a sidenote I am a HUGE believer in craft kits. If I order several projects right before any given holiday we have them on hand and they actually get done. If I wait for my creative juices to begin flowing...they don't.

1 comment:

Gina Lierman said...

Love it Tara! The placement cards and table mats. I love hosting our Christmas Breakfast and giving a small gift; glass magnet (a picture of each family member with Connor/a memory). Next Christmas morning, I already bought a small presents for all 20 guest.....Christmas coffee mugs ($2.49) for everyone since everyone uses up all my coffee mugs. Everyone can just take one home and no dishes for me :) Got them all 60% off @ Michael’s yesterday. You and I just love hosting :)