Remember Our Troops

Let us not forget those serving overseas during the holidays. Our church sends a package to deployed men or women at Christmas. It is really simple to do. Get you a flat rate box from the USPS and fill it with goodies. It may take a little time, but what is that in comparison to their sacrifice. A big thank you to all the men and women in the armed services and to the families that are left at home. Remember to try to mail by December 1 for delivery by December 25.

 You can find a neat Christmas card to send them.

 Fill the boxes with things that you know they like.

 

Get a friend to help you take these to the post office and brighten a service member's day!

Fun Gifts

I bought this fun pattern last spring from GGDesigns. Everything I read
said it was so much fun to make and could be addictive. Well, they are right.
I ran out of zippers or I guess I would have made several.

 The first one is pink polka dot.

 The second one is yellow polka dot. These can be used for tissue or I thought you could put your driver's license, etc in the pouch. I also thought  you could put this on your keyring.

I now have two little gifts made for Christmas.

Singing in the Rain

I had shoulder surgery a couple of weeks ago and have been extremely limited in what I am able to do. I was going a little crazy, so I asked my husband to put my cricut on the dining room table. I thought surely I could put vinyl on the mat and then program my cricut to cut it. I remembered seeing some pretty umbrellas on Pittypat Paperie this summer. I had bought a couple of umbrellas earlier and had the outdoor vinyl.

 I had a pretty fleur de lis file and wanted to use that on one side. You can see the black and blue umbrellas side by side.

   I used a khaki color vinyl on the black.

     I added some initials for a monogram.

I decided to go with the white on the blue. I think they turned out pretty and will make nice gifts.