You guys are the best! Seriously. You had so many great ideas to solve my costume dilemma. I went with the first one – I think it was Autum's. I took some off-white curtain lining and ripped six strips that were about 2" by the width (54" or so). Then I sewed two strips together along the short end so I would end up with three long strips. About four minutes later, I had a nice long braid. Easy, fast, free. Yay! I whipped up a super simple skirt – one seam, one hem, one elastic casing – and cut an old brown t-shirt of mine into a tunic. All in all it took less than an hour and Kate's pretty pleased. I'll try to take a photo of it when the sun comes out.
I've been meaning to share these little trees with you. I made them as part of Betz White's online holiday workshop awhile back. I think it was in October. I can't share details of how they were made, but I will tell you that I find them quite addictive. I've been searching thrift stores for white and cream wool sweaters because I can just see a whole forest of these lining our sun room mantel or on the black chest in the kitchen. Bonus is that they would look just as nice all winter long….not super Christmas-y, but festive nonetheless.
Still have my cold. Still sucks. Still shopping. Haven't addressed the cards. Cookies to bake and aprons to make. Then wrapping and shipping out of town gifts. So yeah. That's what I am doing. But being back at habit this month has made me realize how much I miss blogging regularly. And how much I had lost my photo mojo. So I am going to try….really try….to be in this space a little more often.
And gosh, if it's going to be so cold outside, could it please just snow?
Those trees are darling.
I hope you feel better soon and get a chance to warm up. xoxo.
Love those trees! From which one of her books did those come?
Hope you feel better soon!
super sweet! i think pretty much everything looks lovely against that green background. peonies, trees, you know.
xo
I feel the same way: if it’s going to be cold, there might as well be snow!
Have some chicken noodle soup and feel better 🙂
dan’s been fighting that same kind of cold. just when he thinks he has it beat, it hangs on still. feel better friend. seems like habit has been good for all of us this month….
I am wishing for snow also! I think I enjoy a snow day more than my girls! I am completely in love with habit this month and glad to see you there as well. Take care!
I do hope you feel better soon!
Do you find many wool sweaters in Louisville? I didn’t think it was cold enough often enough for there to be much thrifted wool around here. Maybe I’m looking at the wrong shops?
Those trees! I love them also. Hope you have managed to shake that cold.
love love love.
see.. three loves. 🙂
yes… i would love those lining my mantle… all winter long.
and snow would be nice. super super nice.
Cool trees 🙂 Hope you’re back to health soon!
The trees are super cute, as is your twinkly banner!
Good luck with all the merry-making, and be well soon!
Blogging is good. Yes, you should get back to blogging more. I remember last winter when you did the yellow week and the kids art swap and stuff. You were blogging lots of great stuff then.
Oh, your trees look so much better than mine. I had to tear out the stitching, I just couldn’t take the pinecones to a larger project like the trees. It just didn’t work for me, but seeing these beauties has me wanting to give them another try.
Thanks for sharing!
Share more info about the trees please!
I’ve got the cold too — it does suck. Feel better soon!
Fabulous! Those are very cute.
Oh those are cute. I love stuff you can leave out.