Giant Gingerbread House

The kids painted Sienna's cardboard house like a gingerbread house today:

My Family in Clay:)

I finally had some time to make me a family ornament!

Ramona, Charles, Sienna and Hunter (the dog).

Custom Family Ornaments

I just finished these adorable custom family ornaments!

I am so happy with how they turned out!

I will be offering them in my Etsy shop soon!

They are all marked with 2009 on the backs:

Busy, Busy

I feel like I have been working on ornaments non-stop for days!

In between, I have been making gift baskets, full of lots of homemade goodies, for teachers, etc....

Below is a picture of the one that we dropped off at the post office today.

Our post office is wonderful!

They are always so sweet to my kids too!

We love them!

I have been tying on one of my ornaments to each of them.

I think that they turned out so cute!

Well, back to ornament making!

...with some baking and kids' school Christmas show watching (tomorrow) mixed in.

Why is the week before Christmas always so busy?

Zsu Zsu Pets

Have you heard of them?

Luckily, my kids have not requested them for Christmas!

I've heard that they are pretty hard to find!

Here is a set of the cute little hamsters that I just made:

Project 320

We are going to build a well.
You are going to build a well.


(photo courtesy of Jody Landers)

Because we can.
Because you can.
How?
Right now sweet, generous, creative and caring women from all over the country are sewing, knitting, painting, shopping, blogging, praying.
Donating.
Over 100 items.
Handmade and heartfelt happiness.
Starting
December 14th
and ending
December 18th
Project 320
will be holding a virtual raffle.
10 prize bundles.
Each $10 donation to the well
earns one virtual ticket.
You get to choose how many "tickets" to buy
and which prize package you want to win.
On December 21st we will "draw" ten winners.
But most of all,
we will celebrate the victory.
The promise of clean water for a village.
Life.
Are you excited?
You should be!!!!
Because it is going to be awesome.
Grab a button.
Spread the word.

(info above taken from http://project320.blogspot.com/)

To learn more about Project 320, please go to http://project320.blogspot.com/

"To infinity ... and beyond!"

A polymer clay Buzz Lightyear ornament that I made as a gift:

Sock Monkeys in Love:)

A recent custom order:

Snow Day!

Joy to the World

We got our Christmas cards today!

They turned out great!
I can't wait to send them out!

Thanks to everyone that helped me pick out the picture to use...

...and now they are necklaces!

Modeled by my sweet Sienna:

Let the Wild Rumpus Start Wild Thing Monster Polymer Clay Necklace

Let the Wild Rumpus Start Max Polymer Clay Necklace

Abominable Snow Monster Bumble Polymer Clay Necklace

Brobee Polymer Clay Necklace (sold)

Any of my necklaces would make wonderful gifts!

A few more familiar characters

Do you recognize them?

These guys will be made into pendants and hung from necklaces...

to be sold in my Etsy shop soon:)

Brobee

If you have young kids,

you probably know who this little guy is!

He's Brobee from Yo Gabba Gabba:

He is going to be turned into a charm and hung from leather cord necklace.