Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

3 hour Christmas Gift

So I sort of forgot about G-baby Yeh until yesterday when I was looking for a better potato masher. Eventually, I wandered into the baby section of the store and was reminded that I had nothing to give her.
Rather than simply buy her something, I wanted to make something. So, I decided to make her a small stuffed plush toy. Naturally, I went to my quick project source: Aranzi Aranzo. I chose the Bongo Bunny from the Fun Dolls book. It was really quite easy, except sewing curves on the server is not (at least for me).
To keep it green, I stuffed the plush with scraps from my sewing stash (i am determined to green-ify my family), and the body was made from some knit I had in my stash already. Since the recipient is an infant, I had to use felt for the eyes, nose, and mouth, but I think it came out cute.
The projects in the book are simple and cute, so if you need a quick fun gift I highly recommend it. You don't necessarily need a sewing machine, either.
Enjoy!



Saturday, December 1, 2012

Yeh! It's Christmas.

And, no, Yeh is not misspelled.
It is officially here! I have made it through the organizational havoc of moving the entire house around enough to start the Christmas decorating.
So, we put up our little "green" tree. It's reusable, and we dig it out every year from the garage. We even replaced the lights that came on it with led lights. So it's green I. A couple different ways. Yes, very corny pun intended.
That's about as far as we've gotten, though. We haven't put up the ornaments yet. What kind of ornaments, you ask? Well, on my trip to Japan I collected Hello Kitty phone charms from each place I visited, and I literally fill up the tree with just those. Poor B-chan doesn't have much room left after I get done... And the kids? Yeah right. We'll either have to get a bigger one or mommy will have her own tree.
No picture yet, but I will post one of the tree after we finish.