12 Days of Handmade Christmas | Day 7

Edie, of Life in Grace, featured one of my tutorials on her 12 Days of Handmade Christmas!  If you haven't checked our her blog, grab a cup of coffee and go through her archives...you'll be glad that you did!  She's a doll, really.

If you're planning on making Christmas gifts this year, the 12 Days of Handmade Christmas are a great place to start! There are tutorials from well-known bloggers, like Lindsey of Pleated Poppy, and some from totally unknown bloggers.....me. :)

Go ahead and visit.  You'll be glad you did.

A little of this, a little of that…

It’s about time that I’m back to posting on the ol’ blog!  We have been BUSY over the past month and a half doing something I’ve always dreamed of doing….

Turning this…

Into this…

We’ve been renovating a house to make it our home!  I haven’t written much about our life on this little blog, but we’ve been living with another AWESOME family for the past year, while we waited for a house to sell in Texas.  A few events later, and after being blessed tremendously by friends, we are now living in our newly remodeled home.  It’s everything I imagined it would be!  Don’t mention the word “re-model” to my husband, though…I think he’s over it.  

I’ll post more before and after pictures soon, because we all love a good before and after, don’t we?

The bad news about the remodel is that it took up all of my sewing time!  The good news is I have my sewing time back, so you’ll see more products and tutorials posted in the upcoming days.  In fact, a tutorial of mine is going to be featured by one of my favorite bloggers in the next few days.  I’m going to keep it under wraps for now, but I’ll post a link as soon as it’s featured!

Thanks for letting me gush a little about our new home on what’s supposed to be my sewing blog! 

It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas…

Ok, so it’s still October…but that doesn’t mean I haven’t started thinking about this year’s Christmas card!  Who’s with me?

We have been BUSY the last few weeks renovating a house and making it into our new home, so that hasn’t left much time for blogging.  I’ve still been sewing (in between tearing down wallpaper, removing carpet, and painting), and am excited to finally be back into somewhat of a normal routine!  Just because I’ve been busy, doesn’t mean that I haven’t been planning this year’s Christmas card.  I like to mail my cards out on December 1…a lesson learned from my grandma! 

I was given an opportunity from Shutterfly to try out 50 of their Christmas photo cards!   After browsing through their fabulous designs, I have come up with a few options:

I love the Gorgeous Gift Tag folded card!  Sweet, simple, and perfect!

The Charming Gift Wrap Christmas folded card is pretty cute, too.  Imagine a picture of Grayson in the middle!

LOVE the idea of the Count Your Blessings folded card! Counting your blessings isn’t just for Thanksgiving!

The Christmas 2010 Christmas card is SO simple, but very elegant and classy. I think that a black and white family picture would look fabulous on this card!

Last, but not least, the O Holy Night Religious Christmas Card says it all!  “O Holy Night” is one of my favorite Christmas hymns, and I love the departure from “traditional” Christmas colors!

And those are just a FEW of the choices that Shutterfly offers! I don’t know how I’m going to narrow it down!  I can’t reveal which Christmas card will be the Smith Family’s 2010 Christmas card…you’ll have to check your mailbox in early December to find out!  Be sure to check out Shutterfly’s Christmas cards and other holiday cards!