Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Christmas Pillows

Christmas time is around the corner, can you believe it? 
Time just keeps spinning, and slowing when Carter has a bad day,
We don't have very many Christmas decorations so I thought an easy way to spruce up the living room for the holiday's was pillow covers. 
My pillow cover experience was pretty much zippo, but it looked fairly simple. All I had to do was fold fabric in half, sew up two sides and make the fourth side an envelope pocket.
Yesterday my aunt came over because she was kind enough to let me use her machine. When she got here she asked about pipping and I was like "Oh that would be cute.". Long story short, my pillows turned from an hour job to a six hour job. Although it was a lot of work. I love the turn out! I can't wait to put them on my pillows after Thanksgiving.

Thanks great aunt Shannon ;) your the best!

Carter helping to clean up for the impending mess. I don't know what I was thinking.

The fabric I choose, cute huh?

Putting the cording I got into the fabric and Shannon on the machine!

Shannon working on the back of one.

The front of the final product.

The back of the final.

Love them!

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Christmas Traditions

I know it is a little early for Christmas, but the malls already are having breakfast with Santa and I'm not singing Christmas songs yet so I think it is okay.

This year my family is coming for Christmas and John's family lives here so it will be nearly perfect. If only my sister could take a break from her mission. One night I even dreamt that she could spend the day with us and did missionary work at night, funny huh? Any way's now that we have Carter we wanted to start some traditions of our own while incorporating some of our family's.

My favorite's are making Christmas cookies, nut roll Christmas morning, and decorating the Christmas tree.



So what are some of your family's Christmas traditions? Maybe we'll steal some of those.