also from the garden

These are the gifts that I made for the "walking girls".  The "walking girls" are the girls (ladies) that I walk with every morning.  Except on the weekends.  I don't do weekends.  Not now.  Not ever.  We clear on that?
OK, OK, just havin' a little fun.  I made them a jar of handscrub, a lavander soap, a post-it-note holder and I put them in a kraft bag with two cookies on the flap.  I think they liked the cookies best of all!!

homemade from the garden

This is a pen vase I made my mother-in-law for Christmas.  She loves roses.  I had made these before with daisies as the flower, but when I saw these roses at Michaels I had to try and make this for her. 

I hollowed out the roses with a hot knife and then hot glued them to the end of an RSVP pen.  I filled the inside of the pen with green Bazzill Paper (sorry, sis-I know there must be a law against that somewhere) and filled the vase with blue, silver and clear pebbles.  I tied a green ribbon on under the rose and then spritzed the roses with Glimmer Mist (dazzling diamonds).  I finished up by tying a tule bow around the base with an angel ornament for accent.  I hope she likes it...

just so you know

along with everyone else I know, I have been busy baking the cookies, cooking the candy, walking, decorating the house, planning the gift purchases (even got some bought), walking, wrapping, playing online, didn't make any christmas cards, I have been doing some crafty things, but I can't show them until after christmas, more walking, have a christmas party to go to tonight, need to go wash my hair, pick out my clothes, shine my shoes, you know, stuff...so there you have it.  I have been busy just like YOU...just so you know...have a lot to get posted on here, but family is first so it may be a while...just so you know!