red_swirl

I hope you had a Merry Christmas, or a good day anyway, if you don't celebrate Christmas.

A shepherd and sheep I made long ago, maybe 2003. Never made the important people in the story, but I've three kings to show you later in the week.

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Trimming the tree is not done with scissors, which rather disappointed my 2.5 year old. 'Trimming' is not a word I'd use much, actually, but we'd read about it together in a book.

And unfortunately, I reverted to a rather unfair amount of Mum decorating by herself for a while, after the second minor breakage. I should have explained more about how to hold decorations carefully, I reckon. Because I can have a reasonably interesting conversation with her, I overestimate sometimes.

You will note the tree is securely tied to a large box, that there are few decorations on the lower branches, and any presents are well hidden at the back ... yes, Little Sis has started to walk.

I also found the 2nd box of decorations a bit late, you know, the box that actually was labelled RPG BooksChristmas Decorations. And I still have no idea why I thought jewel-toned purples, oranges and blues would go well with the traditional red/green/gold look? At least the year I apparently wasn't labelling boxes I had my colours coordinated.

Ah well, it all turns out in the end ... I found the home-made decorations so Big Sis and I put them up together. And she did the star ;)

Posted by red swirl at 19:01 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Beautiful craft blogs are bad. They make me feel rather envious / inadequate. Don't get me wrong, I still love looking at them, particularly when I don't have time to do any crafting myself (... because I'm reading blogs?) And I totally acknowledge that the bloggers I admire have just as little time / money / training as me ... maybe they're better organised? Have more practice? Or more realistically, I simply put more effort into other areas of my life, like study and ... umm ... doing nothing in particular.

Anyway, despite not having made Christmas presents since school, this year I've planned a few. Two (I hope) are easy knit toys. The other, well its a dolls' house. Of course, I could buy a dolls' house, but I want it easily portable and appropriate for a 2 year old ... so I'm going to make it sort of like a soft toy: wish me luck!

I told you blogs are a bad influence: I've not felt stressed about Christmas presents before!

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