Christmas 2013

We survived another Christmas in the Sadler house!  Weeks NO - MONTHS of preparation and the day comes and goes so quickly!

 

Here's what our living room looked like after Santa Claus stopped by around 2:00am!

 

 

Here's Ryan before we started opening gifts.  Notice his Christmas T-shirt!

 

 

Here's a picture of Ryan with all the "loot"!  His smile seems a little bigger in this picture, doesn't it? Ha!

 

My favorite gift to receive is GIFT CARDS!!!!!

 

 

I love to be able to pick out something special myself - and all these gift cards will make that possible! - By the way, this isn't all of them - I opened more later in the afternoon!

 

 This is the only picture I snapped at our family Christmas dinner.  The picture wasn't all that great, so I made it into a snow globe to make it a little more interesting!

This is our "annual" Christmas photo.  I'm very happy how it turned out and think I'll use it on next year's Christmas Cards!

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy NEW YEARS!

 

 

Lisa 





It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas!

One . More . Day!!!

Then I'm off for the next SIXTEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BEST. GIFT. EVER.

 Here's how I've been spending most of my time:

I made 15 snowmen out of old fabric bolts - I think they turned out so adorable.  I also created some Santa Claus decorations from the fabric bolts! SO CUTE.

The snowmen will make a great gift for our neighbors who bring over gifts and for teacher friends!

The 3D Santa Candy Bar Wrappers are so cute too!

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Each year Ryan receives a Christmas Ornament that represents an interest or event from that year.  This year's ornaments are: A Graduate and College Coed. 

 

To date, I have wrapped OVER 317 gifts!  They line the spare room at my brother's house - awaiting transport to their destination!  56 of the gifts are for students (cute Santa bags) - I share my day in two different second grade classrooms!

Shutterfly had a Christmas Card promotion - I took advantage of the promotion and ordered several different versions using the photo we had taken over the summer.

  

I love making homemade gifts for family and friends.  In addition to the snowmen and candy bar wrappers, I made Ryan a Marvel Comic Fleece Blanket and two sets of notecards featuring Star Wars and Superhero graphics.  I designed a Dunkin Donuts gift card for Bill and then created personalized notecards and/or notepads for many of the teachers.

Here are some more of my projects - - (More Shutterly Fun!).  I made some sympathy cards - unfortunately, I have had to buy way too many of these lately.

Then some "fun" Wizard of Oz" cards

 I made these gifts for my friend, Carolyn for Christmas.  The first is a journal with her kids pictures on the cover:

 and this mouse pad.  I took pictures of her family at the beginning of fall and used the photo I snapped on the Riverwalk. 

Since I didn't post in November - here's what we were up to last month!

Jacob turned 14!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAKE!



We celebrated Thanksgiving at my parents - I made this "turkey veggie tray" and 3D Turkey candy bar wrappers - These candy bar wrappers turn out so adorable!

  

Thanks for stopping by! Be sure to stop by again soon to see our Christmas Celebration!