Happy New Year!!

First I just want to wish every one a happy New Year! I hope everything went well for everyone this past year and i hope all goes good in 2009! Now for the update on New Years Eve Brandon is getting a Cornea transplant. I don’t know a lot about it (other than the pamphlets the doctors have given us and what I have googled) and we are a little nervous. I was wondering if anyone knows someone who has had this procedure, and just wanted to know a little bit about what it was like and if they are happy with the results. Please let me know because the pictures I googled kind of freaked me out!

The Last of my Christmas Craftiness

I came up with the idea of a memory christmas tree skirt. It doesnt look like much now, but i am going to quilt a bunch of squares onto the white part of the skirt, and then each year i am going to iron on a picture of us christmas morning. So by the time i am 50 years old the idea is that it will be covered with pictures of every christmas morning that we have ever had together and the we can look at how much we have changed each year. I think it is a fun way to put memories on something that i will have forever. I hope it turns out, and that i keep up on it!

Okay here is the picture of our stockings i made, I messed up on the letters a little bit so i just covered the paint with glitter and it looks so good! I am learning to sew, and this was my first thing i tried. Not too bad!

This post if for Rachel, this is how my "JOY" turned out. I didn't put the leaves or the bells on because i didn't have glue, and i was afraid it would look cheesy. I thought it turned out cute, although i could not find the gel stain you were talking about and the workers at Michael's looked at me like i was crazy when i asked for it. So i ended up using an antiquing stain (I think it was the same thing, but it made the white parts on the "O" a little to dark so I had to re-paint it). Anyways love ya! Thanks for your help!

I Love Christmas!!!

We bought a real Christmas tree! We figured since we live in a log cabin, we should do the real thing. I am so glad we did it turned out great and smells so yummy! It is kind of a pain to have to water it every day though! I have also gotten very crafty! I made a bunch of the ornaments on the tree and the bow at the top (thanks to Rachel for helping me pick out the ribbon and stuff!). I also decided to make my own Christmas trees skirt(which is not the cheaper route to go). It is not done yet but i will put pictures up as soon as I'm done! Then I made us stockings and I am stenciling our names on them.