Chemo Day!

It's been a year now with radiation and chemotherapy. Hubby's treatment are slowly shrinking the tumor but also stopping new tumors from coming on.  It's been a slow process but it is still nerve racking when get go to the infusion center.  You just never know what the blood work will say week to week.  Sometimes the blood platelet counts are too low and other times they are right on target.  We just keep praying for positive results. 

Merry Christmas!

Christmas eve is winding down.  The fancy family dinner is over and I get to relax until it is time for Santa's visit with the toys. I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday.

Christmas is just around the corner.  I'm glad I was done with my holiday shopping early.  Now I can relax until 12/24 when I get to cook up a dinner for 9. The joys of the holiday season.  Now off to look for quick and tasty recipes that I can use for dinner.

Ornaments for Fundraiser

Since my sister is one of the faculty advisers for the Class of 2022, they are required to make gifts for the holiday craft fair at school.  I helped by donating a dozen of these felt ornaments and few of my other homemade ornaments to sell.    

Reindeer wreath

This was my gift to my sister for Christmas 2018.  She mentioned three years ago that she wanted this wreath, but I was not sure if I wanted to take on making this.  Well, this year I made two of them for her.  The red nose is an ornament that came from our original family Christmas tree about 50 years ago.  My parents stopped putting up a tree, so I made sure to save these ornaments.  I have one and now my sister owns the last two as part of her wreaths. The original idea came from this Pinterest posting:  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/785596728724999873/  I looked around for other ideas and created my design that was similar. 

 

2018 Gift holder

This year for Christmas I decided to make this gift basket holder that I found on Pinterest. The link to the pattern is http://www.free-tutorial.net/2017/01/gift-basket-tutorial.html.  I used items from the dollar store and candy to fill the baskets.  Then each child got a gift card and some cash.  I also made some extra for the teachers.  I tied it all up with green plastic wrap.  The gift tag is the handmade red long john PJs with the butt pocket.  I had so many of them still from 10 years ago when Gannett had their employee craft fair.  I did not sell any at the time so I have been trying to give them away and finally this year I was able to give away the last PJ ornament.

 

Wedding Gift

A team mate got married in November, so I had the team pitch in and I made a gift card bouquet for her. 

  

Just some more cards...

Here are some birthday cards I made in the Fall 2018.  The double slider cards were hard.  Then I finally figured out I needed to make sure the plastic used inside was not too thin and the tape on the track needs to be 1/8 inch or it will stick to the slider panels.  Once I got past that they were easy to make.

 

 

 

My Birthday...

It is my milestone birthday.  I picked to go to Universal Studios and experience Harry Potter world.  I know my little family is not big into wizarding world like me, so I made my sister and cousins go as a girl’s trip.  It was super fun!  I didn’t even wake anyone up with my snoring. 

  

 

Angel Charms

I was looking for something to add to the memory boxes I made for the hospitals.  I was looking for something that I can use with my current materials and tools.  I found this bead angel charm.  The beads I had and the pliers my husband had in the garage so all I needed was the stem to hold all the beads.

Wrap and Gown

Heavenly Angels In Need held a 30 day challenge to have members make at least one item a day. As you can see I only made it to 25 items.

 

Charity Group: Halo Helper

I saw their posting on Facebook one day and saw that this was a group I could help out.  The Halo Keepers is out of Florida.  They make soft yarn wigs for any child battling cancer. I would make the beanie hat that is the base of the wig and mail it to the headquarters in Florida.  They would have people there who would add the hair and embellishments to finish off the wig.

  

Charity Group: Bridget Cradle

When I was surfing the internet for new patterns and ideas to make for the “babies” in the hospitals.  Daniel calls them the “babies that mommy helps”.  I ran across this charity group called Bridget’s Cradle.  They provide handmade knitted and crocheted cradles to hospitals to offer to families whose babies were born into Heaven in the second trimester of pregnancy. Because babies are so small, traditional blankets do not meet their needs. I started making cradles on behalf of Alexander Paul Mayo who was born into Heaven in the 2^nd trimester of pregnancy.

Halloween 2017

Here’s another pop-up card I made for Alicia. All the papers came from searching the internet for images.

 

Homemade Christmas Cards

Yes, I am trying my hand at homemade Christmas cards this year.  I have the supplies and I also purchased some more but it is so fun to make.  The hard part is deciding how to decorate the fronts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Birthday Cards

Now I’m starting to get brave with my card making.  I also ordered some stamps and dies from Stampin Up and also online.  The Lawn Fawn brand carries some cute stamps.  Stephanie Barnard’s collection with Sizzix make it so easy to die cut specialty cards: step up and flip it.