We planned this day out for over a week and it was so much fun. I transformed our basement family room into craft central complete with paint, glitter, fabric and everything else that gives my darling husband hives.
Here is the first project that we completed. Many thanks to Sarah over at Thrifty Decor Chick for the fabulous idea that she gave us a couple of years ago. You can find her tutorial if you follow the link. Thanks to my very healthy stash of fabrics I only needed purchase the styrofoam cones and I even had a coupon for the large one.
Here is the finished Santa and Elf hats. My little guy, forever known as Peanut made the pom poms himself and planned out the elf. He was very proud of how they turned out and couldn't wait for his brother to get home to show of his skills.
Next came another stash buster and a total throwback to being 10 years old and making my Mom a Christmas present at school. I remember it took what seems now to be days at school to make a fabric Christmas tree for my Mom. I was so proud of it…funny thing is my Mom cannot remember the tree or where she ever put it. I guess that says a lot about my crafting abilities all those years ago.
Peanut and I set to work cutting all the little pieces with pinking shears and then he so patiently glued them all on.
We were almost done when his big brother came home from school and made one for himself. The finished trees are beautiful, they will look great when we start decorating for Christmas.
I am so happy with how this day of playing hooky from school turned out. So many beautiful projects for our Christmas but most of all time spent with my son. Hopefully he will have as many great memories as I do of this day.
