🎄Dedication

For my three adult children, Sienna, Kalib, and Christopher. I enjoy(ed) bringing you joy every year as children, and I do hope that you will carry on the Christmas tradition in years to come. I love you all so very much. 💋
Love, Mom

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Christmas 2014











This Christmas my brother invited his wife Kathy (they'd been living apart) and my sister invited her new boyfriend Geoffrey for Christmas.  

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

BC Company Christmas Party

 










There are 3 locations of the particular company I work for.  All 3 locations got together at the owner's house for a Christmas party.  I won a tower (the largest gift) of desserts.  Santa Claus was there.  Everybody was having a good time.  We all were forced to take off whatever socks we had on to put on festive socks that waited for us upon entering the door.

Monday, December 8, 2014

Upcycled Ribbon Spool

 I was wrapping gifts when I ran out of ribbon on a spool.  When I looked at the empty ribbon spool, I thought, "This looks like a thread spool. I've seen those become recycled.  I wonder what I can do with a ribbon spool."


I've seen a craft for a thread spool before.  It was used to create a miniature list of all the good boys and girls, with your child's name on it, then string added to be hung from a christmas tree.  I didn't want to do that, though.  What I had was a ribbon spool, much larger than a thread spool.  So, I went on Pinterest.

And what do you know?  I made a tiny gift basket for a gift card I will be giving away; with the help of Pinterest, of course.
You can sort of see the gift card I tucked into it after I added a quarter piece of tissue paper.  A full size sheet of tissue would be too much.

I poked the sides with a pencil to break a hole so that I could string a ribbon through to make a handle.

I slightly trimmed the rounded part off the bottom of the side of the spool, so that it would not roll.  I also covered the sides so you didn't see the barcode.  The sides are covered with a "Christmas card" which was actually a piece of "junk mail."


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