I forgot to tell you that I did a little interview with the lovely Heather of Skinny laMinx the other day. Well, to be honest, she's been patiently waiting for my responses to her questions for a little while now. One question Heather asked me: what's something you're looking forward to in the near future? I wrote that what I wish for is a day with no work. Or maybe a few days, ones that I can spend doing other things. That said, I must be getting ready because yesterday I went to the public library and came home with a stack of cookbooks. Because I like to read cookbooks. For ideas, for fun. And then happily spend a day in the kitchen.
Over the past two weeks or so, I've also been accumulating a large pile of craft supplies. Holy smokes, it sort of looks like Martha Stewart herself has taken up residence here. My to-do list includes things like this:
bake cookies (all-time favorite buckwheat butter cookies with cocoa nibs, shortbread with pistachios, brown butter oatmeal – need to figure out recipe for this)
make felt ruffle wreath (inspiration from here. I began this last night, only I am decidedly less exact about the circle cutting. I think the variation is fine, actually lovely, and I'm placing the ruffles a little farther apart.)
make felt flowers and garlands, planning to mostly wing it on this, felt squares are from local craft supply store, about $1.89 each.
assemble glass ornaments (inspiration from here). You can find plain glass ornaments at most craft stores, and they're pretty inexpensive. I bought some dried yellow flowers for these.
make holiday cards from Liam's drawings (done, done! what says happy holidays more than darf vader and stegosaurus, really?!) It's fairly easy and inexpensive to do these. Our scanner, well, I haven't used it in a long long time so I took photos of Liam's drawings instead, and then cleaned them up in Photoshop and added text to the inside layout. I printed them on these cards that I picked up from the office supply store. The envelopes that come with this set are not very nice, so I am using some dark red ones that I have in the studio from Paper Source. The hardest part of this all was that we have an evil printer with a mind of its own. It's been this way for a long time, but it got the boot this week in favor of an on-sale one that is much friendlier.
3 comments:
i love your take on the ruffled wreath! gorgeous! and liam's drawings are so awesome - you have no idea how anxious i am for my son to be at an age where we can draw pictures together. he is 1 year old today, so just a little while until he stops breaking and eating the crayons rather than coloring with them :)
What a treasure trove of ideas - I admire your productivity! I love the stegosaurus card - my son is sooo into dinosaurs too. Isn't it funny how they know all the names! Have a lovely weekend.
Your "no work" day sounds like a busy one! Love the stegosaurus pic, and wow, Liam's a pretty impressive speller. Is he really only 3?
xx
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