Christmas Crafts

I wouldn't typically consider myself the crafty type, but I've had the Christmas itch lately and along with that has come an urge to craft. So here is my tree skirt I told y'all I was gonna make!

 

 

 

Ouila!!

 

 

 

Just took a few hours of spare time and 4 yards of fabric!

 

Feliz Navidad

 

Admittedly, we did get a little bit over-eager about Christmas this year and have already set up our tree and bought a good chunk of presents (and even wrapped them!). I'm usually the type of person that shuns anything Christmas until the week of Thanksgiving, but for this year I got really excited because hey, this is the first year I get my very own tree in my very own place. Also we are going out of town for half of December so I felt justified setting it up early so we would have time to relish in our lovely décor.

 

So don't judge me, is what I'm really saying.

 

For those of you newlyweds out there that are looking for a nice, yet affordable tree, I suggest your local Wal-Mart. We bought this 6.5 ft beauty, pre-lit I might add, for only 39 buckaroos. That's a steal if you ask me.

 

Since I am housebound today due to my wisdom teeth removal, I have decided I am going to work on this project.

 

 

Isn't that a lovely tree skirt? I really want to make one and since there is so much burlap left over from my wedding all I really need is to go get some red fabric. I'll let y'all know how it goes.

 

Here's the tutorial I'm going to follow, found via pinterest, in case any of you wants to make one too!http://adirectedheart.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/so-you-like-my-tree-skirt/

 

Guess what happened to me today.

 

 

I've always quite enjoyed posting highly attractive pictures of myself on this blog, and so here is another for you, my dear friends.

 

And no... I'm not auditioning for the part of Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol next month.

 

I got my wisdom teeth out! At the ripe old age of twenty I finally got those suckers pulled, and surprisingly I feel really good about it. An unlucky few depart the realms of oral surgery all swollen and miserable, I mean they are total train wrecks you know, but not me! Despite the fact that I have had to wear this ridiculous head wrap all day, and considering I got four teeth ripped out of my skull, I've felt pretty darn alright (knock on wood, right?).

 

 

Happiest of Birthdays

Happiest birthday yesterday to my handsomest man! The ripe old age of 24 looks good on you. I hope you don't disapprove of me disclosing your new age in public.

 

Thanks for your sweetness and gentle hand that cares for and helps me.

 

You are so strong, hard working, wonderful and kind.

 

I love you mucho.

Frivolous Thinking

If I were a rich woman undoubtedly I would throw out my entire wardrobe and buy a new one. It hasn't been changed much from the way that it was when I was a sixteen year old, but hey, what can you do when you make minimal dollars an hour and have to feed yourself and a crazy food eating 24 year old man with it?

This is the number one item on my wishlist right now. The lovely, the beautiful - pink leopard print nikes. I quite admire these, don't you?

Leopard has been a bit of an obsession of mine lately, which is strange coming from someone who used to shun any variety of animal print, but I am a woman and therefore am allowed to change my mind at will. Heck, when I was fourteen years old I vowed that I would never wear makeup, and clearly THAT little idea has changed.

Open Season

With fall comes all sorts of exciting things, for some it means pumpkin spice candles and cable knit sweaters. For us it means blazing orange and tromping around the woods in search of big old bucks with big old antlers. This year was my very first deer hunt, and while I didn't end up bringing home anything, I sure had a lot of fun being out with my husband, brother and grandpa freezing our butts off in the great outdoors.

The Simple Things

 

Making anything from scratch that is supposed to be canned or preserved in a jar has always been intimidating to me, but when my mom invited me to come over and learn how to make peach freezer jam I soon discovered that it is a much simpler ordeal than I had originally imagined.

 

I wish I had the recipe to share with you, but alas I do not. Perhaps it shall suffice to let you know that our peach jam is indeed, delicious.

 

Pictured above is me and my homegirl Cassady Stewart, furiously slicing and peeling juicy peaches for the sugary sweet concoction.

 

Now that I have graduated from making jam I would like to go on and learn how to make pickles. Any good recipes, peeps?