Crazy Holidays!!!!

I really hope everyone is having a blast during the Holidays. It's been quite crazy around here, making handmade gifts, keeping the kids entertained during the 2 wk vacation, eating out in other's people houses, visiting the family and all the craziness of the Holidays. I just dream this time could be dedicated to just relaxing at home, but it's never possible! I haven't even been able to blog at all, how terrible! I went into a sewing frenzy and make all my gifts exclusively handmade, what a HUGE task! I wanted to share pictures of a couple of them, I just wished I had the time to take pictures of all of them but my time was so limited that even picture taking was time consuming lol!

Anyways... here I go:

I made several of these sets (Coasters and a big one for a hot pan)

...and tons of these, they were a hit!!!
Eye Pillows filled with rice, lavender and Clary Sage Essential Oil

All the kids received a Crayon Roll and I still need to finish my daughters' toys - I told them Santa gave me lots of wool felt to make new toys for them. *wink*

Edited to Add:

Oh yeah and I forgot that I took pictures of this cute iPod case I made for a friend's daughter, she has the same iPod my husband has so I was able to make the perfect case for it. I used this amazing tutorial, easy and fast! I made 2 of these in different patterns. (sorry I forgot to take pics of the other case!)

You can take a peek...

I was finally able to sew another item. I been working on a website so I had to put my crafting away for a while but I decided to find a little time and finish another Christmas apron for Etsy AND for a good cause. This time around, I will be donating 50% of the money toward the Nie Recovery... Please read their story.

Please stay tuned if you want to help out or even better, post the Nie button in your blog and let's help this family out. In the meantime... here are just a few pictures of the Apron. I promise to take a better picture of this as soon as I wake up. I am very exhausted... Good Nights...

I got my Xmas Planning figured out!

It is definitely better to have things written down before you start making your needed projects. I've made a promised to myself to gift exclusively handmade/homemade items this year and so far, I have all my planning done! I wrote down a list of items (with pictures and links!!!) I want/need to make and have these projects going! There are sew many simple ideas, affordable and quick, I am sure they are all will be done in no time. The countdown starts TODAY! :)

...and what about wrapping? I found a few crafty ways to wrap our handmade/homemade Christmas presents!

Here is one idea: Manilla paper and ribbon, raffia, cord or twill

with fabric!

Unwanted scrapbook paper (I have tons!!!), sewing drawstring bags to bag gifts, you can probably visit the dollar store and get dollar plastic crates and cover them with your favorite leftover fabrics!

You can also re-use those flower baskets that came with your last flower arrangement and make a gift basket for your best friend or boss - fill up with all your handmade items!

The ideas are endless!!!! if you have any more ideas that you will like to share please do so, I can't never have so many :)

Lots of things done :)

I spent the weekend all my myself with the baby and I had a lot of things done! wow! (thinking that blogger REALLY needs to put some smiley faces in this editor) okay, there... better!

My hubby took the girls with him to spend the night at his sister's house where the grandmother is staying. She is ill so his sister needed him to watch for her. Anyways, I was able to finish another set of wipes this time they are girly themed. I am very happy with the little coordinating drawstring bag I made. Oh and can't you tell I changed my header? Well, I noticed my previous header was barely visible in some PC's, everything looks nice and sharp in my Mac but I know the majority of the people uses PC so I needed to make the appropriate change.

I started sewing all my Holidays Gifts and for sale items. I have a pretty decent list of the people I need to gift, specially the kids. I thought about crayon rolls, felt toys for sale and for gifting (made out of eco-spun felt only), Christmas theme aprons for sale, probably some fancy looking place mats with coordinating napkins for my friends and family... anyways, the list goes on. Last night I was able to finish a Christmas themed kind of a chic apron :) ...and it's REVERSIBLE!

And here are the other set of wipes w/ drawstring bag:

Soon I'll show pix of some other items I am working on: Two other Xmas aprons and a some baby items for my best friend that just had a beautiful baby boy! Happy Birthing Mari!

oh gosh I almost forgot!!!! I got a new addition:

It's from my husband's grandmother, since she no longer sew anymore this was given to her by her granddaughter (my husband's sister) but she never got to use it. Look at it, it's brand new! Still has the blue sticker thingy on! yay!!!! ...now I need a serger ;)