My Handmade Christmas Gifts

Here are some of my creations for 2012 Christmas


Snow Gals

Canvas Art

Memory ornaments

  Art tags

Hoping to find more time to create this coming year.

Evening Star Button Club Holiday Party

On December 1st the Evening Star Button Club shared
their Christmas Holiday Potluck at my home. 

We shared an incredible potluck meal together,
followed by our hand-made gift exchange. 

 Lori & Tara

Pam

 Lee & Jennifer
(see the tray of buttons - gotta have our button fixes!)

The food was cleared from the table, our gift exchange was shared, my kitchen shifted into creative mode and we created Christmas ornaments and tags

 Jennifer- for the love of horses

 Lori- Morton the Moose

 Tara- Family

 Lee-Family

Our sons (years ago)

Pam's family ornament photo was too blurry to share, sorry Pam.

 I'd like to blame it on my camera, but I know it was me the photographer... unfortunately, most of our photos were too blurry to share.  My apologies to my dear friends if you were hoping to see a specific photo here.  

Being we are a button club, our handmade gifts were to include at least one button or button image.
Here is our group shot, minus Pam's as it was already hanging on my Christmas tree.
You will view it as you scroll down.  
   

 (Left to right):  
My gift was a mini Snow Gal I created with a vintage cut-glass salt shaker, porcelain head & vintage pieces of jewelry and buttons.  Each Snow Gal had different vintage pieces, scarves & buttons.

Lee's My Little Book of Buttons was decoupaged with button images, made sparkly, and offers blank pages to keep track of our button research and WISH LIST... oh the visions of buttons that dance in our heads!
  

 Jennifer created these darling paper craft ornaments.  I do not recall which scrapbooking design machine she used.  Think of all the designs you could create. 
I think I need to create another WISH LIST! 
 

 Lori used wire, buttons, fabric images, paint and some
Campbell's soup cans to create this adorable vase & button flowers... recycled & creative... way to go Lori!

 

Earlier this year, our club took a field trip to the
Kansas City Garment District Museum.  A fellow club member is the curator for this museum.  Oh my gosh, what a fantastic field trip!  If you enjoy garment history, including buttons, this museum is a must.
Their exhibits change and is open on Fridays or by appointment.
Please make your plans accordingly... it is so worth it!

Tara's gift was canvas art covered in vintage pattern tissue, photos of our club's field trip to the KC Garment District Museum and of course buttons!  
   

Pam's precious gift was a small match box transformed in JOY.

Tucked inside Pam included vintage china buttons... so sweet! 

These gals are not just members from a club, they are dear & precious friends to me... thank you for your button knowledge, button ethusium, but mostly for your precious friendships!

  

Our Christmas Home

Glimpses of our Christmas home...

Hope your Christmas was bright, merry and filled

with the love & joy of family & friends!

Hope....

"May your unfailing love rest upon us, O LORD, even as we put our hope in you."

                                                                                                                 Psalms 33-22

'Tis the Season

I've made no changes to my photo space issue.  
 I keeping checking my blog -
today it is allowing me to share photos. 

Hopefully Blogger will be kind and allow me to
post additional photos later.   

For now please enjoy photos by my friend Pegge
of Reyes Photography.

 Photos were taken recently during our
Girls Holiday Happy Hour held at my home.

 (I added snow effect to this photo of my Silent Night display, fitting don't you agree?)

Thanks Pegge for your holiday photo shoot!
We had a great happy hour... love you chicas!