Gingerbread Houses

Isabelle made her first gingerbread house today at the Waukesha Public Library.  They read a story, sang a few Christmas songs, and then everyone got to make their own gingerbread houses with milk cartons.  She loved decorating the outside and eating marshmallows!!

Coloring Time

 Isabelle loves coloring lately and is starting to learn some of the colors.  We colored lots of pictures for our Christmas cards this year.

Here is one of our favorites hanging on the fridge:

Tiedami Model

Baby Blanket for Cousin Clara

Made with Cotton Candy Bernat Baby Coordinates Yarn + White (H Hook)

Baby Blanket for Ava Quinn

Isabelle had lots of fun meeting baby Ava at our house!!  And we found them matching jammies :)

Baby Blanket for Cooper Lisicki

Owen's Marshmallow Peep

Grandma Carla made Isabelle an Easter basket using things found in the board book "Owen's Marshmallow Peep" by Kevin Henkes!

Cross-Stitch Sampler for Baby Ava Quinn

 Isabelle helping me work on the cross-stitch sampler for Baby Ava!  She loved pulling the needle up - with lots of help, of course.  Here we are working on the border:

We made the same one that my mom made me when I was born (now hanging up in Isabelle's room!)

Monkey Quilt

Here is Isabelle's monkey quilt that was given to her when she was born by our neighbors in Germantown, Lori Schultz and Colleen Terry:

We used it for lots of pictures this last year!!!

Isabelle's 1st Christmas Stocking

Isabelle's first Christmas stocking made by her Great-Baba

And here are the Klowaks with their stockings!!!

Christmas Blanket

 Christmas blanket made by Grandma Carla when DJ was five years old - DJ helped with the pinning and sat by Carla when she was making it.

Isabelle loved cuddling with grandma and playing peek-a-boo!!

2015 Christmas Cards - Set #2

 Second batch of Christmas cards this year:

2015 Christmas Cards - Set #1

Finally found sometime over Thanksgiving weekend to get my Christmas cards done!  My friend Courtney came over and we had a crafting weekend.  I haven't done a lot of crafting, so it was nice to get all of my stamps and paper out!!!

I always make my own cards for Christmas, but this year they included a picture of our daughter Isabelle - almost a year old.  And, I was able to use my new Christmas stamp for the inside:

Here are all the cards I made - with a few close ups:

Flower Sentiments

I started these a few months ago and finally got a chance to finish them up this weekend.  I used the same design in a bunch of different colors and added a variety of sentiments.  They were super easy and turned out really clean and simple!

I did mass production in our living room (which is finally back to normal!) and made a total of just over 350 of them!  I made a bunch of sets for wedding, Christmas, and Mother's Day gifts and have a ton left over for me to send out next year.