What do you do with holiday cards?

Andrea — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:28:57 -0600

Remember when I asked what everyone does with their holiday cards and what kinds of cards you like to recieve? Well, today I put a new plan in action to save our cards each year. It's very simple--just a manila envelope to put all the photos and letters inside. Then I decorated the front of the envelope with punched squares from all the other cards we received. On the back of the envelope, I wrote down who we received cards from and how we know them. Seems obvious right now, but someday it might not be. Maybe next year I'll get a pretty basket to put the envelopes in and they can add to our holiday decor.

I'll admit, this process seems to be a little over-kill in the "memory-keeping" department, and yes, they may all be trashed someday. But...our MOPS meeting this week was about geneaology and how to do family tree research, and I guess in my head I have this vision of one of these families looking for information and photographs about their family and I'll have their 2007 family photo archived in my folders. Silly, I know...but these are the kinds of things I think about!

Thanks to everyone who sent us cards this year. We enjoyed them all!

Feelin' Crafty

Andrea — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:09:04 -0600

I'm feeling all crafty and festive lately.

I spent this afternoon making handmade ornaments to give to our

neighbors and to the lovely ladies who watch Ayla every morning at the Rec. None of them read my blog so I can show you! :) I'm pretty happy with how they turned out:

Instructions: (for those interested in an inexpensive, crafty project)

Stamp a large star onto chipboard.
Cut out the stars from the chipboard.
Cover the stars in mod podge and glue them to the back-side of your patterned paper of choice. Wait a few minutes for it to dry.
Using an exacto knife, cut out the stars from the patterned paper.
Next, cover the other side of the star with mod podge and glue them to the backside of a coordinating piece of patterned paper or cardstock. Wait a few minutes for it to try.
Again, cut out the stars using an exacto knife.
Punch a hole through the top of each star.
Use sandpaper to sand the edges of the stars (optional).
Add any text or handwriting.
Cover the entire star with mod-podge to create a protective coat. (do both sides)
Add a loop of ribbon with a knot at the top to finish them off!

I also baked a batch of Aunt Dora Cookies for our Steed Christmas celebration tomorrow afternoon. Those things are teeny tiny! They only take about 6 minutes to bake, so it keeps you hopping. I'm making them again next week for a Cookie Exchange, so I've got lots of dough rolls all ready in the freezer.

Finally, the last project of the day was on a whim, really. I've had these white candles in our bedroom forever (they looked great in our old red bedroom, but not so great in our new tan bedroom). I never light them, and I really would like to have RED candles instead, but I have trouble buying them when I have three perfectly good white candles. So, I decided to just decorate the white ones instead. Patterned paper, a little ribbon, and a metal alpha letter. They were done in about 3 minutes.

Tomorrow is Steed Christmas at Josh & Rachel's house. Looking forward to lots of good food and Christmas music and gift exchanging. Hope you all (not y'all) have a good weekend!

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What do you do with holiday cards?

Feelin' Crafty