Creating & Holiday Preparations
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| Handmade Holiday Stockings |
Cleaning out sewing drawers to organize winter projects, I found a bunch of pretty fabrics folded up. To my surprise, they are holiday stockings I forgot I started to make using sturdy upholstery and draperies' fabrics.
As families age, gift giving can be difficult on the budget. The gift basket style in a handmade stocking is easy and fun.
I take the discovery as a sign to get busy design my holiday greeting cards. I go for the rustic Nature outdoor minimalist vibe. Whatever I create, I'm sure it will require hot glue and lots of cutting paper. A card that can be an ornament is interesting.
Have you started your holiday cards?
There is often a stage with designing where I over do it, and have to take it back to the practical. The scale of a design as well as the project has to be enjoyable. This year I decided on a vintage Christmas card theme for decor. Down to 2 small artificial trees, I can make small cards to fit them using magazine cut outs.
Before the trees go up, there's faux foliage and pumpkins to dig out of the closet.
You always seem so organized and productive ~ way to go ~
ReplyDeleteXmas stockings sound and look wonderful ~ No plans for holiday yet ~ looking forward to the pumpkin season ~
Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Your decor idea sounds cute and fun and I hope you share it with us when the season hits. We do a photo-letter card for most folks and I'll start that around November 1. Once I get through my annual sale I'll start about a dozen watercolor cards. Which reminds me -- I need to order the stock now!
ReplyDeletePS -- I love the stocking-as-gift-back idea. I think that's kind of brilliant and very fun!
ReplyDeleteCarol,
ReplyDeleteBeing forgetful is my encouragement to try to be organized.
Have a fun day!
Jeanie,
ReplyDeleteThe card ornaments will probably be posted on my crafts blog. I will post here when that is done.
Lining up supplies, especially holiday catalogs for cut outs is fun.
The stockings idea is a great one.
ReplyDeleteI am so bad at getting my cards out. Usually 2 weeks before Christmas. Every year I tell myself I am going to send them out right after Thanksgiving, and then it never happens. Janice
ReplyDeleteThank you, Marie
ReplyDeleteI saw the big stockings in Yankee Magazine a few years ago.
Pinecones and pine garland need a bit of color.
Janice,
ReplyDeleteYou aren't alone.
This is mid September. Card design has been on my mind since late July, early August. I suspect they might be mailed mid December. :)
I am admittedly Scrooge about the whole affair.
ReplyDeleteWe do not send out holiday cards, but I sure like the idea of your homemade ones. That is truly special. I have been getting eager already to put up our Christmas tree. Seems silly to think about that in September, but I think I'm so eager for the next month (and all that it holds) to be over, I've just jumped right ahead to Christmas this year. That is not normal for me at all, but it's making me happy to do so right now.
ReplyDeleteWilliam,
ReplyDeleteThe holidays wouldn't be the holidays without Scrouge.
In many ways, I feel the same.
Becki,
ReplyDeleteWhat is right for you, is right for you.
Many people are set up for the holidays early.
Already we are into Halloween. And before that even gets here, we will be into the December holidays.
Isn't it wonderful when we are going through things and organizing, and come across something that makes us smile? The vintage theme sounds nice. There's just something about a tree with a bunch of vintage ornaments on there, and I've always loved the vintage cards. The tree with the vintage card cut outs sounds like a great idea.
ReplyDelete~Sheri
Sheri,
ReplyDeleteA bonus of miniature greeting card ornaments is that they do not take up a lot of storage space.