Christmas at Casa de Carreon

Translation - Christmas at the house of the Carreons. 

 

All three trees are decorated.

 

 My pot belly cabinet decorated with some Jim Shore things.

 

 

 The Three Wise men

 

Several small vignettes through out the house using my Jim Shore collection.

 

Can't forget the jolly old fellow.

 

Traditional Christmas tamales made and ready to be steamed cooked Christmas morning.  Shopping and most of the baking just about completed.  I'd say we are just about ready to join in the fun with family coming to Texas from California, Minnesota and Canada.

This will be my last post until 2014.  I'll be spending time with family and friends.  After the holidays I'll get excited about creating some new dolls.  Hope you'll come back and see them.

Here's wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year.  Enjoy this time with your family and friends and make some wonderful memories with them. 

 

Warm Christmas hugs,

 



Happy Holidays!

 

 The holiday craft show is now over and I'm happy to report that it was a wonderful show.  This year my sister-in-law and I shared a booth and happy to report it was a big success for the two of us.  Great team work!  

I know the pictures aren't that great, but I forgot my camera and had to use my phone camera.

 



This is the last batch of dolls for the year.  They are all going to one customer - hope she likes them.  I won't be creating any more dolls until after the holidays.  I want to take this time to prepare and enjoy the holidays with my family, my ailing 90 year young Mom and Dad and my dear friends.  Thanks to all my customers who bought my dolls and a special thank you for your wonderful, sweet comments.  It always brings a warm smile to my heart when hearing your nice comments. 

 

This is by far my favorite time of the year - Thanksgiving and Christmas!  Both of these holidays means being thankful for all my blessings, for my family and friends and most important of all the birth of Jesus Christ.

 

Have a wonderful, safe and blessed holidays!

 

 

Hugs,

 

Still a crafting...

Just got back from the International Quilt Festival in Houston Texas.  It's an annual event that my two sisters and sister-in-law make each year.  Lots of laughter (cause each one is crazy silly), shopping and some wine.  All a great time.  The santa pillow (sorry a little fuzzy) is one of the patterns that I bought.  Actually I bought the kit that included the frame.  But that is going to be for me!  I made the pillow for my craft show.  He is so cute. It has seed beads on his hat, brim and the bottom white border.  Then add a little rusty bell at the cap end.  This is a new pattern by Little Bits by Joan - pattern #337 A Visit From St Nick, in case you are interested.

 

How about some glittery white Christmas star ornaments.

 

Or a falling star right into a rusty bed spring?  This idea came from a picture I saw in Pinterest. 

 

Don't forget to change your clocks this weekend - have a wonderful week.

 

warm hugs, 

Still working on the holiday show

 Hello friends!  It's been a while since I last blogged, but as you can see I've been busy hustling with crafting for the week long show mid November.  Everything from Santas, snowmen, holiday dolls, ornaments, pillows you name it - I've had my hands in it.

 

The snowman above is the largest snowman I've ever done.  He measures 24 inches and feels like he is almost as wide!  Cyndy from Crafty Stitches made one and I loved it so I asked her where she'd gotten the pattern.  It's from Crooked River Mercantile.  Their snowman was a little more primitive.

 

I love working with wool so I always have plenty of pillows (small, medium and large) with wool appliqued.  I made 5 of the smaller Santa that is shown.  I normally only do about 5 or so of the same kind. I like mixing it around.

 

 I always have plenty of ornaments.  I made a dozen of the angels and a few of the fal la la la la.  I also like mixing up the ornaments - I have a tub full already tagged.  I didn't want to pull them out for photos.

 

 

 

More pillows and some stockings.

 



And last but not least a Merry Christmas wool wall hanging.

 

Hope you enjoyed viewing some of my work that I've been working on for the show.  I have some wonderful customers who are patiently waiting for the show to be over so that I can start working on their custom dolls.  My Etsy shop is empty too :(

 

Until next time - have a safe and blessed week!

 

hugs,