Works For Me Wednesday - Freezer Paper

I love freezer paper! It is really useful in many ways!



Here's how I used it as a stencil for some craft projects...




I've also seen a couple of people do the stencils, and have it ready for kids to paint at birthday parties! Check out Grace Violet's birthday party for her little girl.

It's also great for covering tables for art projects and cooking!




Check out what works for other people at Works for me Wednesday at Rocks in my Dryer

Christmas House Tour

I'm joining in on Kimba's Christmas Open House. Here are some pictures of my house. If you are either one of my regular readers (Hi Mom!), some of these pictures are repeats from a few days ago.


Come on in...

This is our playroom/den mantle.

Our kitchen...

Our living room...


Another spot in our living room...

Our Christmas Tree in the Living room/ Dining room...

and, back to the playroom/den...

Head on over to Kimba's to see who else has their house open for you to see!

Christmas baking!

We decided to do some baking for gifts this year, so the girls and I were busy today! I made fudge and chocolate-dipped pretzel sticks, and the girls and I made reindeer cookies. Here are some pictures from the day!

Here is a picture of the kitchen part-way through the baking session.

Here are what the bags looked like. One bag shows the front of the card, and the other shows the back. This picture also shows the finished products!

Mary Helen and Anna decorating the cookies.

Check back tomorrow for the Christmas house tour hosted by Kimba at A Soft Place to Land.

Some more of our Christmas decorations

Here are some snapshots of our Christmas decorations!

This is the playroom mantle.

The playroom tree...

The living room tree...

and the front of our house...

Showing off my garland

Ok, I have had too much fun looking at all the garland at the Nester's party! You have to check it out here

So, even though so many of them put mine to shame, here is mine (at least so far!)





They, of course, look much better at night. The cord by the double doors still needs to be tacked back so it's not so obvious. In the kitchen, I plan to add some pretty ornaments, but a sick child and a nearly sick mama have kept me from getting out today. Sofar, my garlad has cost me less than $5, and that was for the sparkly stick things that I used in there and the tree.

Hopefully the garland in the kitchen will look good after I get the ornaments in it!

Thanks for taking a look!

WooHoo! The Christmas spirit has hit!

I helped my grandmother decorate her house for Christmas yesterday, and it made me decide I want to put my trees up.

I love Christmas! I will post pictures when I get everything done tomorrow (hopefully tomorrow!)

We also watched the Charlie Brown Christmas special last night which really put me in the spirit...we have been working hard to teach our girls the real meaning of Christmas. I love that the major networks are still airing the Charlie Brown Christmas that tells the real Christmas story.

I hope you are all keeping Christ in Christmas!

A quick, cute story about our Anna today...as I was putting up the Christmas tree, she came in and squatted beside me as I was tucking lights in the tree. She looked at me and said, "Good job, high five!" That's the most she's said all at once ever, I believe! It made it totally worth pulling the tree out of the garage!

I'm still here!

Well, I have pretty much neglected my blog, but I have been busy getting ideas from lots of very creative bloggers out there! I have also been working on making some of our Christmas presents...I have had fun crafting away! I will try to post pictures after I give the gifts (since I do have family members check in here from time to time!).

We did get some good pictures of the girls last week, a good friend of mine went out with me and snapped away...these are better pictures than I've ever paid for!