As you saw before, I made the first stocking for a contest, but we didn’t want our other stockings to look like that one. So, I found this tutorial and inspiration here. I love her blog and read it anyway, but her step by step instructions are great!
It has been a tradition in Grant’s family to set up the Christmas tree together on Thanksgiving or the day after. I meant to start on Thanksgiving,but I think it really happened the day after. Grant and Gail were happy to let me work and I was happy to do it.
I decided to enter a contest at www.prudentbaby.com. In this contest, you make a stocking that has knit fabric somehow incorporated, and the winner gets a serger. I figured I might as well try even though I figure I won’t win. Grant and I need stockings, but I wanted at least three; an uneven number cause I like how that looks on a fire place. I used the stocking tutorial from Fabric Worm,and I show below how I made the stocking.
I am sorry for the long absence! I have been really busy working on lots and lots of things,but most of them I can’t share. I have been slowly working on Christmas gifts, and I am about 90% done with the gifts so far. I am going to start wrapping the gifts soon too. There have also been TONS of baby showers or people having kids so now that I have given out all of these gifts, I can show these at least! Here is my Burp Cloth Tutorial!
I was finally able to help host my first baby shower. I was wanting to help host one sooner,but so many people had already volunteered that there was never room until now. I was able to help host Ashley’s Baby shower who just had her baby Ruby! I had a great group of girls that I was working with, and most of them had already hosted a shower so it was nice to hear what had and hadn’t worked before at a shower. We got our inspiration from here. Our theme was Bubbles or Pop, and so we incorporated as much as possible in the signs, food types, and decor. Some of us baked, some bought items, some made decor, and some made signs.
As I know I have mentioned before, I got a new job at the end of April, I still cannot believe I have been working her for over four months already! I love my new job! Don’t get me wrong, I really miss all of my friends from my previous job; At Alpha we almost lived on top of each other because there was only so much space, and you really got to know people well. At Westover, everyone has their own offices, I am not complaining as it gives me more freedom to do what I like in there, but it does get lonely sometimes. Anyway, I knew I wanted my office to be fun, trendy, and a space I could work in. I was trying to explain to my coworker that once Grant and I get a house it will not look like this. Grant and I both prefer a more minimalistic style with less pops of color and more monochromatic white, grays, and blacks. Anyway, here is the progression of my office so far; it is nowhere near done,but it is a start.