Christmas gifts

while it may seem like i'm really late in posting about something that happened over a month ago i do know someone who was celebrating their family Christmas this past weekend so i'm not THAT far behind.

this year (last year?) i made fleece blankets for all the kids in our life. Adults who don't own a home also got one of these. in all i made 19 blankets either 1.5 or 2 years each. good thing i started in August! these were so fun to make and even more fun to creatively personalize them (trucks for Cole, skulls for Zach etc.) each blanket took about an hour and a half to make which i usually did while vegging in front of the TV. i felt so productive!

pile of blankets

Danica's blanket

and of course they were each tested by our resident snuggler (he LOVED all the blankets)

for each family that we exchange gifts with i made them each a house number in the color that matched their house. these went thru a few different phases but the pictures show is the finished product. i wasn't as happy with these as i'd hoped i would be so i gave the "you really don't have to hang this up if you don't want to ... everyone has different tastes SHPEAL" i also handed out a rice pilaf mix i made up with the gifts. yumm!