Gudrun´s World

December fun

This is what happens when you leave two creative kids ALONE with an undecorated Gingerbread house, two bags of frosting and a boatload of candy.

  

Yes, they used ALL of the candy, plus the rest of their Halloween candy and some marshmallows from the cupboard.

 

I just get a toothache from looking at it. But I love it and they loved it. I did not love the look of my kitchen afterwards but that is a small price to pay for beauty like that!! Not to mention the happiness of two kids:-)

One of our December traditions is putting together jigsaw puzzles. We buy a new one every year and each year the same scenario happens!! I am always going to save the puzzle until Christmas but that never happens. I have no discipline! Once it is in the house, it has to be started on....and once it is started on.....I can't leave it alone until it is finished!!

 

This year I went online and ordered my favorite puzzle, Wasgij? We got addicted to these when we lived in Iceland. You are actually not putting together the picture on the box, but the real puzzle is what they see! It is so fun to see it come together and the quality is great. It also adds to the pull of finishing the puzzle because you need to figure out what they are all so freaked out about. 

Maybe it wasn't so smart either to set this up in my work room this year....there was no work done there until that darn puzzle was put together. Luckily I got it done in a couple of days so not too much damage was done!!

 I have some awesome news to share too! I have teamed up with the travel icon Jim West and his company Sew Many Places to bring quilters to Iceland in 2011!! It is going to be the trip of a lifetime with lots of quilting and knitting related activities and connections. Jim's online FREE magazine Quiltposium, December issue just came out with the planned trips for 2011. Our trip is on there along with an article that I wrote about Iceland. So I suggest you hop on over to www.quiltposium.com and register for the magazine. It's super easy....then you can log on and read the whole thing. My article starts on page 50!! Let me know if you check it out.

I hope you are having an awesome December too!!

Oh, Christmas Tree

I am so happy to have my house in holiday mode, it just tickles me to wake up and have the trees lit. We put up 2 christmas trees. One upstairs, that is a smaller tree that gets all our handmade, collectable ornaments, kids crafts and such. The kids now take care of decorating that one by themselves and they did a great job. 

Downstairs we have the big tree that I always dreamed of having since I was little, which is "my tree". I decorate that myself and go with a color theme each year. I don't know what it is, probably the designer in me that likes to experiment and not do the same thing every time. This year I did the same thing as as last year though because I loved it so much, all red and silver with a little bit of white. Now, as I said, I get to decorate this tree, but the kids keep on bringing me recommendations on what would work on the tree. Some of them are taken into consideration....others are shot down as gently as possible. However, one morning this little one eyed paintstick snowman had appeared on my tree. The color scheme works, so it gets to stay. 

 

I like to keep my tree up into January too, so between Christmas and New Years, I change out the decorations a little bit.....it turns into a cocktail tree for New Years!! I display all my cocktail themed ornaments, shakers and even hang my plastic wine glasses from the tree. I will have to take a picture of it this year to share with you when the transformation is done. It is so fun....especially when people come over...they don't notice it right away, but after a while they go...OH, is that a cocktail shaker?

I finished another Christmas design, but unfortunately I can't really share it with you yet. It's going into a future publication, but for now....it looks perfect on my table. I'm really sorry that I can't show you more right now. Trust me...it looks great with the new pillows.  

Have a great weekend...I have a great day ahead of me planned by my family (I love surprises). Yep....it's my birthday today......turning 29.....again.....as usual!!!