It's beginning to look a wee bit like Christmas...

 

I spied some beautiful cards the other day that had doilies sewn into them and felt all inspired to do my own. With Christmas fast approaching and this simple and easy pattern from The Royal Sisters I've ended up with these...

                  

   I've made them in the past as bunting too which I will be doing again this year!

Is anyone else freaking out about Christmas Day being one month from today!!!???

 

I am literally about to go and get the tree out of the garage so I can do a decoration sort before the tree goes up on December 1st.  Really, it was such poor planning on my part to birth a child in early December as I always feel like my head can't cope with birthday parties and Christmas prep all at once!

My creative space... Back on the hook

My creative spaces have been all about birthdays lately and I was having SEVERE hooky withdrawals!  I was actually getting a little concerned that I might have forgotten how but lo and behold, it's just like riding a bike!  My hooky claw hand came right back within moments - there must be some kind of crochet muscle memory!

I have been vegging out these last couple of nights in front of Offspring repeats (thank you Channel 10 - it's just as funny the second time round!) and churning out these snowflakes and christmas trees.  A friend requested some to be made into a garland for her tree so I do hope she likes them.

I follow the most excellent and free tutorial over at The Royal Sisters.

Go here for trees and here for snowflakes.

And because I couldn't leave without mentioning the Rainbow Party that will be happening in three sleeps...

...the cake bunting is ready!

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Krafty Kris Kringle





The panic button has been hit!  I had done no planning for my handmade kris kringle, all of a sudden realising it is supposed to be posted in the next week or two.  A wee search on Pinterest has of course delivered, and I have settled on making these....

Source: sewtogether.com.au via Sonia on Pinterest

....which wouldn't be complete without also including some of these premade numbers....

Source: lesliekeating.com via Sonia on Pinterest

And then of course I decided it was going to look so good I'd need one as well so I have spent the last two nights cutting out 100 pieces of bunting flag! 

Time consuming. Monotonous.  But fabulous tv craft!

What's your tv craft?  Have you joined in the Handmade Kris Kringle?

Kids Craft - Advent Calender

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We are soooo totally going to make these origami advent cups this year! These are from a marvellous site called Kids Craft Weekly. This weeks email was all about advent calenders and these beat the daggy cardboard, tasteless chocolate numbers we normally buy from Coles! I think you should sign yourself up if you've got small people! Go on, off you go and do it.