25 things I love about the holiday season.

Around Christmastime I started to realize how much I love this holiday season. So what exactly do I love about it?

Our 18 foot indoor Christmas Tree.

Bright Lights.

Hot Cocoa.

Cheesey Rolls (see recipe here.)

Soup.

ABC Family's 25 Days of Christmas.

Playing in the snow.

Our handmade Christmas Countdowns, made by Mom.

Warm mittens.

Cookies.

Warm blankets.

Our handmade ornaments.

Our handmade stockings, made by Grandma.

White chocolate chips. A favorite snack...mhmm.

Lindt truffles.

How prominent the love within our family is.

Giving and receiving gifts.

The warmth of a lit fireplace.

Fuzzy socks.

Breakfast pizza.

Reindeer food.

Letters to and from Santa.

Candy canes.

Paging through our family scrapbooks.

A visit from Saint Nick.

These wonderful things make our family's holiday season special.  What traditions do you and your family share around the holiday season?

Guest Blogger: Katie.

Hello Everyone! I'm Katie, You can find me over on my blog Punk Projects, where I post lots of crafty ideas and tutorials, inspiration etc. Jordan asked me to do a guest post for her Blog, and I had lots of fun making this tutorial for you guys!

Tools and Supplies:

Pictures (I used pictures from a recent mountain biking trip my family took.)

Patterned Paper

Pretty Colored Ribbon

Misc Embellishments

Hole Punch (I like to use the Crop-o-Dile)

Sewing Machine

1.Print out your pictures to wallet sized. Cut them out.

2. Back them some neat patterned paper.

3. Take your ribbon and fold it in half around the edge of your picture.

Sew down the edge of the ribbon - Make sure both sides of the ribbon get sewed down.

4. Continue with the ribbon around all 4 sides of your picture, and repeat with the rest of your photos.

5. Decorate your pages, with stickers, letters, paint, etc.

6. Punch a hole through the corners of all your pages and thread and tie some ribbon through them (I actually used some twine, because I liked the feel of it. )

And now you have a cute new mini album! If you make this, I would love to see pictures, hop on over to my blog and leave me a link! Hello Everyone! Thanks Jordan for letting me guest blog!

xo, Katie

back to reality.

Long time no blog (:

For quite a few weeks months, I have had the freedom to craft pretty much every single day after school and all day on the weekends, uninterrupted by homework. And it was soooo nice.  But these last couple weeks, I was slammed with homework and final exams. Bam. It's back to reality for me.

Even though I have had a lot of school-related work to do lately, I have still set aside a little time to craft.  So what exactly have I been up to since I fell of the face of the blog world?

I made this lace flower headband.

I beaded these bookmarks for both of my grandmas, as well as my mom, my aunt and my sister.

I made another flower headband.

I sewed these ruffled camera strap covers for my mom. 

And yet another flower headband. Want to know how to make your own flower headband? Check out my tutorial here.

We celebrated my 15th birthday.

I made this flower necklace.

Another flower headband.....(in case you haven't noticed, I'm totally in love with flower headbands right now)

I sewed this headband from this tutorial.

I loaded up my fabric stash with all these fun fabrics.

Since it is the height of our high school's basketball season, I made these cute headbands in our school's colors.

I have been living by my one little word since the beginning of 2011.

And finally, I have been working on my 2011 project life.  Here are some of my project life ideas:

-Try swapping a journalling block for a 2x3 photo.

-I round the corners of my photos with a corner-rounder.

-I journal in a neutral color (dark brown) and use a bright color to make one word out of my journalling pop.

So in a nutshell, that's what I've been up to lately.  I'll get back to my regular posting as soon as I can.

Creating Keepsakes Guest Blogger

Today I am a guest blogger over at the Creating Keepsakes Blog. Check it out for a cute tulle flower tutorial!