Travel Blanket!

I made a travel blanket for my friend and boss Valerie since she is
1. Extremely hard to shop for
2. One who travels ALL THE TIME.

I had no idea what I was doing so I kind of made it up as I went along. I knew it had to be able to fold up small but also be warm and stylish!
So I attached some Amy Butler home dec fabric to fleece simply by folding up the fleece and securing it with a blanket stitch. (Of course I had to put her initials in the corner!:))
Then when I was done with the blanket, I thought "I wonder if I should have put some ties on it?"
to keep it wrapped tight. Then I thought, "What if she just has her purse with her, then she'd have to have this blanket tucked under her arm all the time??"
So, I came up with this:
It's own traveling case, looks kind of like a purse itself! Fun project!

Christmas was SO great this year! Will blog soon...

The Happiest Christmas Tree

Saturday was Jack's end-of-the-semester preschool performance. Since he attends a performing arts preschool, he has been learning to dance. As you can tell, he's got the "the gift"!;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8rf85WWm5Q

I promised myself that this year I wasn't going to make anything but of course, I never keep those kind of promises. We are enjoying the Holidays though! Jack and Tate are just SO excited, I love it!
On Sunday night, we googled the top Christmas movies of all time and the #1 movie is The Christmas Story ("you'll shoot your eye out", you know, that one). So we did a little instant play from our true love, Netflix. Jeremy had never seen it!? Aaand he's never seen Home Alone!? So we have some catching up to do.
I don't think I ever blogged about Jack's birthday but he turned FOUR on November 24th. Can't believe it! He got a BB gun per Jeremy's request and a big Optimus Prime per his request, among waay too much other stuff that he got spoiled with from everyone! We just did a family party this year since I've adopted the big-party-only-every-other-year thing. :)
I think this weekend it's up to the cabin and enjoying the 12"+ inches of snow we've received in the last 24 hours!

December..

Jeremy has the day off today so we are going Christmas shopping and to dinner and a movie. We are doing a baby-sitting swap with our good friends who are going Christmas shopping tomorrow. So far, I have had Jack or Tate with me every time I am Christmas shopping and I'm tired of trying to find sneaky ways to hide things in the cart!
We have the tree out but no decorations on it yet or the rest of the house. I am wanting the house to be completely clean before I decorate but here I am blogging instead of cleaning!
Things that have been happening:
We celebrated my grandmas 92nd birthday yesterday.
The boys have been getting excited for Christmas, especially Jack! So fun to have them "understand" the whole Santa thing and the magic of it all.
Had a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with SO much calorie-laden foods:)
Went snow-machining that weeekend at the cabin with the fam. So fun!
Been sewing and digital scrapping, trying to get gifts ready.
Dealing with USPS, FedEX, multiple customer-services, etc. Tis the Season!