216: merry and bright

I hope your holidays were full of joy and peace.

Although it goes against the creative aspirations of this blog, my goal this year was to NOT make any gifts, thus eliminating much of the stress.  And I'm happy to say it mostly worked.  I had my shopping completed a full week before and had even wrapped about 3/4 of them before Xmas eve.  It might not seem a lot to you all, but for me, it was quite shocking.  Did it mean I went to bed before 3am Christmas eve? Not a chance.  But still. 

I did relax my rule a bit to make some cute fabric star ornaments.  

There were more, but I sent them away.  They are from this tutorial and are pretty easy.  You could easily be make some from magazines/papers as well.  They reminded me of those gum wrapper chains we made as kids.

And these cuties were for Aurora's class party.  It's so fun to have time to decorate cookies all fancy.  I always run out of time for our parties...

Anyway, now that the new year is upon us, it's time for me to try to get stuff done.  Last year by this time I had already completed a new quilt top.  This year, not so much.  But, hey, there's plenty of time... :)

JT

 

Comments

[Leland]

What cute cookies!
I came to the same conclusion about making gifts a long time ago--it adds much to much to the stress level and tends to ruin the fun. But I am going to try those ornaments--thanks for the tip.
Glad you're blogging!

[Leland]

You didn't say the tutorial is in Danish!

[Lydia]

This is off topic of this post, but did you ever finish your woodland Christmas tree theme from 2009? I love the owl pattern you shared, but I haven't seen any others and I think they are really neat!

[Paige]

Your cookies are adorable! I'm totally jealous...we have to just use store-bought cookies for class parties :(
I just popped over from pinterest because of your construction party. Loved it! My son has requested a builder party this year, so I'm starting to gather ideas. I got a ton of good ones from you. Thank you!