Christmas Sewing Project

I was looking through a magazine a few weeks ago and saw a really cute tree skirt that I liked, but that also happened to cost about $90. It was all white, with white cutout poinsettia flowers sewn on all around the edges. I decided I could probably make it fairly easily, for a lot less money, so I decided to give it a try. Willy and I were close to a fabric store a few days later, so we waited in the forever long line (seriously, it was like 45 minutes) to get the felt cut that I wanted to make the skirt, got a few other supplies, including a cutting wheel (?), and went home to get started. Willy helped me mark off where I needed to cut the circles for the main shape and the inner part; I was having a hard time keeping my string tight to make the lines right! Haha I then started cutting out about half of the 500 or so leaves I would need for the poinsettias.

It’s taking A LOT longer than I realized it would to sew each individual leaf, and then to sew the little design I’m doing in the middle of each flower.

I don’t know if I’ll even be done with it in time for Christmas, but I don’t mind too much. I’m trying to be patient and not rush to finish it; I want it to be really nice and something I can keep/use for a long time. It’s coming along pretty well, but I’m really only about ¼ finished.

I have a lot more to go, but I’m happy with the progress I’ve made so far. I’ll post more pictures when I have it completely finished; whenever that is! J

Decorating for Christmas

I have been super excited to get our house decorated for Christmas this year. It’s just a lot more fun to decorate and do all the Christmas stuff when you have someone to enjoy it with. Since we were pretty wiped out from our Black Friday experience, we waited until later on Saturday afternoon to get started. Willy thought we should start with the outside lights, so we got out all the lights and decided how we were going to put them up. I already had a bunch of white lights, so we went with those and went along the roof line, and outlined some of the lines on the front of the garage. We were about 10 feet short of lights, so we ran to Wal-Mart and bought another box. While we were there, I decided we also needed something to put at the peak of the garage. I couldn’t find a big star or anything that lights up, so we settled for a big red bow. Willy went along with my crazy ideas and agreed to climb up on the roof to hang the bow that night! Here’s our finished work:

On Sunday afternoon we went to work on the inside of the house. It was so fun to put up our tree together (sorry, we have a fake), pull out all of my old ornaments (I have gotten 2-3 every year since I was born, from my great-grandma, maternal, and paternal grandparents, so I have A LOT!) and tell Willy the stories about who they came from and when I got them.  I have a few from my very first Christmas…

This one was made for me by my great-grandma Nana Lane for my 1st Christmas in 1983.

Of course we had to get an ornament for our first Christmas together as the Cuy Castellanos’!

 Willy putting the star on top.

The finished tree! I am thinking about adding some ribbon or something else to it, but it’s good for now. J

We have a few nativity scenes that belonged to my grandparents. I put one on a corner shelf in the living room and one on the fireplace bench.

The coffee table center piece.



It has been really fun decorating our house together this year.

One last picture of my goofy husband playing around with the ornaments; he’s such a kid!