CHRISTMAS CLASSICS
I’ve been settling in after a busy first semester of
graduate school. Very busy. The boring kind of busy where nothing
exciting really happens and there is little room for coffee dates or whimsy of
any kind. So Christmas break has been a
release of pent up creativity.
This
weekend David and I were invited to a classic Ugly Christmas Sweater
Party. Unfortunately, we are not so
lucky to have inherited sweater heirlooms from a grandma’s closet. So we hopped from thrift stores, to Walmart,
to Target over the course of several days.
Would you believe we came up empty handed! Apparently, ugly Christmas sweaters have become
quite the commodity. So, in a desperate
last effort we settled on creating sweaters of our own.
I had no
idea that my husband could sew! But he
single handedly stitched a large, felt Christmas tree to a sweatshirt, and
added some bows and bells and a battery powered strand of lights. For my sweater, I created a snow globe, using
felt deer, fabric for snowy hills, and Styrofoam balls for snow. We laughed all afternoon and practically
dripped from all the creative juices.
Needless to
say, we brought home silver and gold! I’m
so looking forward to the rest of Christmas break.
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