Last Minute Christmas Gift Idea...

Wow, 3 posts in one week...I can hardly believe it!  Here's a great idea for a last minute Christmas gift Idea.  Every year for the last few years, I have made calendars for the grandparents for Christmas.  They are super simple but very effective and make a fantastic gift!  This is the one I made last year for my mother-in-law.  I pray you have a safe and Blessed Christmas with your families, whatever you are doing and I look forward to an exciting 2011!

Christmas Decorations...

I LOVE Christmas!!!  Not because of the presents I will receive, but mostly for the ones I will give.  I love giving presents so much, that the wrapping has to be just as perfect as the gift.  For the past few years, our theme has been green and brown, my favourite colour combination.  Most people would think this sounds awful...but I LOVE it!!!  And every year, I have to do something different with my wrapping.  So, this year I used assorted wrapping paper in different shades of green and gold and finished them with a Dior bow and matching paper star/flower.  I am yet to complete my gift tags, but I can hardly believe it..I am almost 3 days out from Christmas and all my gifts are wrapped and under the tree...this has to be a first.  I hope your preparations are all coming together and I wish you all a safe and Blessed Christmas and New Year!

Christmas Cookies..

Wow...it's been a while...so with Christmas nearly upon us, I thought I would show you one of my recent Christmas projects!  My little boy just finished his first year of school, so I made these gorgeous little stained glass window cookies for each of his prep classmates (with the help of my mum).  Whilst this is not the exact recipe I used, you can find a similar one here.  And me being me, I had to package them up all cute, with tags made from some diagonal stripe paper that I designed.  There were red glitter tags and bows for the girls, and green glitter tags and bows for the boys.  Much to my delight, Thomas' teacher told me that the kids were very excited to receive their Christmas Cookie packages - YAY!