I hope that you all had a great time ringing in the New Year and that 2016 is off to a wonderful start! Dave and I and our two youngest had an evening of fun and laughter playing a card game called Phase 10, eating hors d’oeuvres (some of which I shared photos of on instagram @supermomnocape) and watching the…
I hope all of you have had a wonderful holiday season and are now looking forward to celebrating the New Year. For this last Vintage Embroidery Monday of 2015 and next week for the first one of 2016, I’m sharing a pair of beautiful tropical birds to stitch. Tufted Tropical Bird – Part 1 Tufted Tropical Bird – Part 2…
It’s Christmas Eve and we all know what that means… Santa Claus is coming tonight! Lanie and Rexie and I are so excited. It’s been a whole year since he came to our house. We’ve had so many adventures. We even got to talk to Santa on one of them. Yes, that’s right. A couple of months ago, Sue and…
Do you like to have pretty floral centerpieces for your Christmas table but find there’s little money in the budget for them? One simple way to make them more affordable is to reuse holiday centerpieces from Christmases past to make beautiful inexpensive new ones to help keep your holiday decorating on budget. The items pictured below were saved from a…
I’ve had this candy cane vase pinned for ages and just got around to trying it this year. (The pinned version can be found on Katie Brown Home Workshop.) Take a small cylindrical vase and place two rubber bands around it. The original instructions called for one rubber band at the top of the vase but I found that the…
Each year, when we put up our tree, the very last thing that is added is the angel topper. This week’s pattern reminds me a little of the angel topper Dave and I bought for our very first tree way back in the early 80s. A few years later, Mom and Dad gave me an new Angel Tree topper that…
Each year in the Santa Sack Swap, we are each allowed to choose if we receive a sack, a stocking or a tote. Debbie requested that I make her a tote… which was great because I enjoy creating new totes! Also in her first email, Debbie mentioned that she loves owls. So when I came across a beautiful owl while blog…
As it often does this time of year, the day got away from me yesterday and I didn’t get a chance to edit the photos of all the amazing gifts that I received from my lovely swap partner Debbie. I’ll post this one now and then sometime this evening I’ll post the gifts I made for her. I know it’s…
Oh yeah!! We finally get to show you what Sue made for each of us. Remember back in the spring when she showed you her plan to frame her Christmas Mouse Wall Hanging. She mentioned that she changed her mind and added in a second red print fabric. What she didn’t tell you was that because of the changes she…
These reversible tissue box covers are a quick, satisfying make that will add charm to your home decor while at the same time covering up those plain tissue boxes we all have in every room of our house. For this tutorial, I used cute Reindeer Christmas fabric for one side and Patriotic Red, White and Blue for the other but…
