I wanted to share December 1 and 2 with you. I kinda cheated with the 2nd, but it really was quite uneventful. Morgan rearranged her tree all day while I worked and did laundry, and then I had a school board meeting. But I got the snowman on his sleigh and his little date calendar set up as part of my decor, so there's my photo, lol.
While the Christmas season is upon us I wanted to share a fun project to make as part of the season of giving and reuse and recycle and handmade gifts.
I admit to a really bad, really sugary habit. I love International Foods French Vanilla cafe coffee. I've even done a layout about it that was published in the Valentine section of Memory Makers, this year, lol.
Anyway, sometimes I don't have time to get to Costco for the great big container before I run out and have to make do with a smaller and more expensive can from the grocery store. I save them and now have a little stash of empty coffee cans, so decided to make use of them and create a little purse for my daughter.
I haven't given it to her yet because she's also getting some Polly Pocket stuff for Christmas and Polly and her clothes fit just nicely inside. I think this would make a great gift! You could put nail polish and lip gloss in it... or make it artsy and put crayons in it or something like that. I used the Sweet Cakes and a bit of the Tinsel Town line from Pink Paislee for this one. The chipboard girls are from Magistical Memories. The great big bow has a loop for the handle and you just pull the whole lid off to get inside.
Isn't that cute? I'm going to have to make another one for Payton. Lucky me, I have a few of these stacking up. Steve will be so thrilled that I'm clearing out my stash. Little does he know I just clear out to fill it back up again with things I can change. lol
With Christmas still in mind, I got this email today and thought I'd share a link. It's for a printable Christmas Wish List. I think I'm going to have each of my kids use it and then scrap their list later. I was just going to give them a JCPenney gift catalog or something and let them cut out things they like and use a glue stick. That's what I used to do as a kid.
Have a great Wednesday!
ETA: There is a very cool giveaway on the Pink Paislee blog today! Chris Ford, who helped design the website, is giving away some Photoshop training! You can win an opportunity to learn a bit more about photo editing and blog design, etc. Very cool! You can check it out here.
