Well, this post, my friends, is a post to boast. I felt like I started off my maternity leave quite void of any crafty skills. Partly because I really do lack them and partly because I had been so out of practice with my creative and fine motor skills. I felt like such an klutz around the ladies in my ward. Seriously, they were making hair bows for little girls and I
completely struggled, I felt like a fumbling idiot. Well, I still can't make hair bows. For whatever reason that seems to be beyond me. I'll just leave that craft to the ladies of my ward and my sister is who is a master of that skill (BTW, Stacey, I LOVE the bows you made me. I now realize that there is more to them that I originally thought.)
But I have a few things to show for my maternity leave and my
developing creative and crafty side.
I have taken up making little girl
bracelets. (I haven't ventured into the world of making grown-up jewelery. So far, it doesn't sound as fun but I don't know how many bracelets a little girl needs.)
I made myself a new
scarf. It's been nice to have since it's been such a freezing winter.
This year our family exchanged Christmas ornaments for Christmas. So I made 12+ little
snowman ornaments. (I have no idea what I was thinking. When shipping to twelve different people don't send glass balls. Next time, I'm totally doing something that will fit into an envelope.) :)
By the way, I LOVED exchanging ornaments. Now I have an ornament from each of my siblings that I can put on my tree every year and think of them. I'm not sure if I should have a favorite but my favorite ornament, was the most unexpected, a handmade ornament by my brother Jimmy. It made my heart smile. :) (Sorry, I couldn't figure out how to rotate it on my husband's silly mac.)
The other night I was looking at my Christmas decorations and lamenting the fact that they must soon come down. I hate it when they come down. Everything looks so drab. I was looking at my "NOEL" blocks and realized that I could turn them around and decorate them for the next upcoming holiday and spell
"LOVE". So today, I took a trip to Hobby Lobby and spent way too much buying way too many things but this is my end result:
I still have a few more projects that I want to accomplish before my maternity ends in only 14 days. :( We'll see what we can do.
