Christmas Crafts

For Christmas, we gave Claire a set of stainless steel toy keys, a Magnificat board book, and a magnetic felt alphabet. She also got a bath toy and some cereal puffs in her stocking.

Except I'm not quite down with the alphabet yet. Six more letters to go! I am following this tutorial and have been working on them since the beginning of November, although not with 100% dedication. If she had mentioned how long it took her to sew these, I might definitely would have chosen something else. Maybe she's just a way, way quicker seamstress than I am, which is a distinct possibility. 

We gave each other the Catholicism series, which we found for a steal on eBay, and two smaller gifts each. We found some Trader Joe's candy and luggage tags in our stockings.

I'm ridiculous and it bothered me that our luggage tags were all mismatched. While I wouldn't mind a set of monogrammed leather tags, that is obviously not going to happen, so I made my own. Did you know Kinko's {I can't get used to calling it the FedEx store} has little laminate pouches specifically for luggage tags? I just made some business cards in Publisher with a fun font and some digital scrapbook paper and then had them laminated for less than a buck each. If you actually knew anything about graphic design, you could make these really, really cute! 

Okay, I promise I will shut up about Christmas now. For real.