toots

to me, this has been a marathon holiday season - thoroughly enjoyable, but cram-packed! i feel like i have accomplished quite a bit, and so am going to toot my own horn. here's most of the things i made in the last few months:

blankets for the kids (as their "practical" christmas gift from us)...



hats for kawelo and myself...



ornaments for our home & visiting teachees as well as the kids' primary teachers...



these adorable angel girls....



and this advent calendar for our ornament tree (in each package are two hershey kisses for the kids - one for each day in december till christmas).



whew!! i am beat!! but it was so fun to make decorations and gifts! i think we ("we" meaning me) are going to try to do a hand-crafted christmas next year. after koa broke several ornaments that i was sure were safe for him to handle and still not knowing where a few ornament hooks are located, i am determined to remove that stress from our christmas experience (at least until kawelo is 5 or older). so, i am looking forward to finding patterns and designs for ornaments that i can make and having the children create ornaments of their own for next year. this time, though, we'll get started early! (one of my new year's resolutions is to lessen my procrastinating - after being up till 3:30 am christmas morning finishing those blankets!) :)