Christmas Cards

This year I made a variety of cards. I make about 50 cards so I like to make a couple of different types. Here they are!

Christmas Tree made with Ribbon

Loads of Love!!!

Embossed Christmas tree

Stocking hung by the chimney with care

Watercolored Christmas trees

More Clipboards!

Christmas came to Riverside Elementary School yesterday! Santa delivered cute handcrafted clipboards. A great size for checklists or shopping lists! Everyone loved them.

Christmas Gift Ideas

Merry Christmas Conrad Girls!

I made these decorations for each girl to hang on their door handle or to hang in their room.

E is for Ellie and pink is her favorite color.

H is for Hayley and purple is her favorite color.

M is for Maddie and I don't know if she had a favorite color yet, but her room is yellow!

They loved them!

Thanks to Tammy I was able to make the letters using her Cricut.

Christmas Ornaments

When I was a girl my Aunt Nancy gave each of us kids a new ornament for the Christmas tree. I always loved finding the new ornament. Nancy would write our names and the date on them. A couple of years ago Mom packed up all of the ornaments and gave them to me so I could put them on my own tree.

Now I am the "Auntie" and I have continued the tradition for all my "nieces" and nephews. I was having trouble finding cute ornaments that didn't cost a fortune... and then I remembered Salt Dough. I made a batch and used cookie cutters to cut out gingerbread men and stars. I painted them with acrylic paint and wrote names and dates. I think they turned out great. I expected them to come out flat, but instead they puffed up a bit. Now each ornament is just a little different. I love them!

Happy 1st Birthday Kenny!

Over Thanksgiving all the Vettrus siblings got together down in Maryland. We celebrated Thanksgiving together. It was a great time of relaxing, watching the cousins toddle and "play together". Saturday night before we pulled out the gifts for Kenny's first birthday. Rebecca and I made picked up some individual wooden letters in the shape of train cars. We painted each car a different color. I'll have to get a picture later. I also made a cute little card for the boy. It was so much fun watching Kenny try to open his presents.