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Deer and tree, a photo by faerytreecreations on Flickr.

Last Sunday before the hurricane, when the potential projectiles were put away and the house was clean, I sat down for a little movie watching and a little crafting.

I had seen this little deer in a magazine and fell in love with him! And without reading the directions (we don't need no stinking directions), I set to work on him and I have to say that I'm very impressed with my final product, especially since I didn't read the directions!

He seemed a little lonely though, so I free handed a tree on plastic template stock, cut out three of them (actually I took the felt and folded into thirds, then cut it so all the pieces are pretty much identical). Then I stitched the tree up without any stuffing. Because it's a three sided tree, it stands on its own like a little tripod.

I have my next deer and tree already cut out, but I haven't started stitching them.  I made the tree bigger, this time around. I had thought about giving them as gifts, but I don't know if my hands can handle all that stitching...and I think it would be a pain in the ass to machine stitch, since he's small.

My goal this Christmas is to decorate more naturally inside with boughs and berries and garlands, soft decorations, birch branch candle holders and my village, of course. I just really love seeing nature inspired decorations and that's what I see here for this year. Not the wild colors, no plasticy garlands, just lots of little lights, some snowy sparkle and a full sized tree with popcorn, cranberries and dried orange slices wrapped around it.

I love Christmas!

Listen to the Music...

One of the great ideas that I had waaaaay back before we bought the house came from an issue of Country Living Magazine – this woman had framed all of her old Grateful Dead albums and hung them up either behind her bed or behind her couch…I don’t remember which now…but it looked so cool.  I didn’t even know that they made frames especially for albums.

The next day I was at A.C. Moore and there they were – frames for albums! And they were 40% off, but they didn’t have a price on them, so I grabbed two and thought, if they were inexpensive, I could come back and pick up more.  Turns out they were about $6.40 each.  I headed back the next day only to find that they were no longer 40% off, and I couldn’t justify buying three more at regular price.  When frames went back on sale, I went back and they were out of the album frames…which irritated the crap out of me.

A few weeks later, I was at the Christmas Tree Shop with a friend.  We were just about finished shopping and I said, “I really don’t need anything over near the frames, but let’s go look anyway,” and there they were…album frames…FOR $3.99!  I couldn’t believe it!  I picked up the three more that I needed to create my pyramid of albums and paid less than I paid for the original two. 

So tonight I finally chose my favorites and put them up on the wall (Cat Stevens, Silly Wizard, The Irish Rovers, the Grateful Dead, Harry Chapin and Pink Floyd):

Coming together

Slowly but surely, it's all coming together!

 

 

 

And here are my "foremen" napping on the job!