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* Xmas wrapup

Posted on January 13th, 2008 by maitreya. Filed under Holiday, Sewing/Fabric Crafts, Toys (cat and kid).

When I was putting away all the Xmas decorations today, I realized that I never posted a few crafts from when my family visited.

First one, I made everybody a tiny stocking with their name on it. I found a stocking template on the Martha Stewart website somewhere, added the name with a graphics program, and printed it out directly onto some slubby cotton ironed to freezer paper. I didn’t bother with the bubble jet set stuff since these (presumably) won’t get wet. Zigzagged the tops to catch the hanger, then zigzagged around the edge, following the printed-on outline. Cut it out, repeat 7 more times. They turned out a little more country-cute than I’d envisioned, but I still like them ok.

Radha and I just had to get this set of iron-together-plastic-beads-thing when we were out shopping one day. This is one of those kids crafts we somehow avoided up to now. Ariel made a pretty good portrait of my cat.

By the way, my new year’s resolution is to be more productive, one prong of which is to stop wasting so much time on the internet. I just cut my blog reads list by about half, so we’ll see if that lasts and/or makes any difference. For anybody curious, I’m using Getting Things Done because 1. it turns out that I already do some of their tricks, and 2. GTD has a huge online following. I think if I turn fangirl, that might help me adopt it and maintain it. Anyway, we’ll see. Hey, maybe I’ll even get more crafting done. :)

6 Responses to “Xmas wrapup”

Julie K in Taiwan Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:46 pm

Thanks for sharing! We just got those fuse beads too. Any tips on the ironing part? I either didn’t heat enough, or heated too much or threw the pegboard right out the window ;) I posted our attempts on my blog.

futuregirl Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 10:30 pm

I know what you mean about bloglines. I cut my down recently, too. I have the goal of getting it to near 50, but I don’t know if that will ever happen.

GTD seems great. Let us know how it works for you. :)

lucinda Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:40 pm

freezer paper? i have been buying expensive sheets of paper backed fabric from joann’s. you mean i can iron freezer paper to fabric and run it thru the printer? what wonderful news! i have all these ideas for things other than the blackmail photograph potholders i have been making with the stuff… it would be so cool to print on top of patterned fabric… thankyou!

love the stocking.

sacie Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 10:51 pm

nice kitty.

Suzan Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 10:56 am

I need to check out this “getting things done” thing. I tend to blame my lack of doing so on working 40+ hours a week outside the home. But, I think it really may lie in lack of focus. Nice blog.

CarrieJ Says:
February 11th, 2008 at 3:39 am

my daughter zeroed in on the fuse beads, too. It was the least I could do after we had to throw out the AquaDots/date-rape drug things. Gotta love those recalls!

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