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A few more of the fun things I enjoyed making this Christmas season...
Katie, Kimmie, Joy and I swap ornaments every year and this year I had Katie. So I made 2 ornaments to celebrate the arrival of baby boy Compton!


One had his initials, name, Due in January 2012, and "for this child I have prayed" on it. The white linen ornament had the words to "Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus" because I have been singing that for them this year as they have had quite the roller coaster concerning infertility. I certainly can't wait to meet him!!

Next, I made my brother, Will, a warm fleece blanket:
Here he is proudly displaying it on Christmas morning...
I made my grandparents this cute moss "G" for their house. It wasn't too hard thanks to the instructions I found here. I only managed to burn myself once with the glue gun!


And last, but not least, I made Andy & Richelle this cute canvas to hang on their exposed brick wall in their new house. This isn't the best picture, but I'll upload a better one later...

I got the idea from this website

Merry Christmas!!

I've had fun making a few crafts this Christmas season. Some are presents yet to be given, so I will share them later.
First, I followed a friend of mine's blog to make this great ornament wreath!

It wasn't too hard once I got my glue gun working properly.

Before I could make the wreath, I had to make some linen ornaments, that she also describes on the DIY blog. I loved how these turned out and made some burlap ornaments to go with them in a bowl for decor.


I took the linen ornaments a step further when making my friend Amy some ornaments for her Christmas wedding:

One has her invitation wrapped around the ornament and the other has her new married initials. If you want to know how I did this, I can tell you - just email me!

My sweet friend Kimberly turned 30 a few weeks ago, so I wanted to do something extra special for her. I bought some Ethiopian burlap coffee bags (they are in the process of adopting from Ethiopia) and came up with this wreath idea:

I read online about all the different ways you can make a burlap wreath and I decided to go with the small strips tied all the way around a wire-form wreath. I cut the strips to about 1 inch by 15 inches. I probably used about 60 strips. I cut a bow out of red burlap and hairsprayed it so it would not unravel as easily and be stiff enough for a bow. I figure you can mix and match bows for different seasons:

I think I am about to give in and join pintrest...enjoying using my creative side. More to come!