Mini Holiday Lists

Edit: The notepads are lined junior notepads that measure about 5" x 8". To get them small, you have to take them to a printer type shop (like Staples, Kinko's, etc) and ask them to cut them in half. They charge by the cut so ask them to pile up 5-6 at a time instead of one by one. My local print shop does it for me for free if I purchase the notepads from them.

December will be here tomorrow! I have to say it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here. We saw snow flurries earlier, the fire is roaring already this morning, and the girls set up the Christmas village last night. I made a wonderful Mexican dinner last night especially for my mom. She loves Mexican food so I did the cooking to give her a break from all the work she did for Thanksgiving. After supper, we did a little sewing workshop and she showed me how to do a blanket stitch and French knots. Then it was my turn to do a little show and tell. I got out my basket of Christmas stamped goodies and let her pick out a notebook. These below were a few of my samples. I showed some a few days ago too, using the full size junior notepads. I used my fun K and Company papers and glittered chipboard accents again, along with some tied buttons and ribbon.

For the one above, I used Karen Lockhart's Rose Stocking. By paper piecing part of the stocking, I was able to use Copic markers to match and make a beautiful accent piece. Sentiment is from Papertrey Ink along with the polka dot ribbon and solid cardstock in Ocean Tides.

Here's the ones I made using the glittered chipboard accents and a mini alphabet. I can't wait to hand these out to some friends and family. I better hurry, they'll be needing their little notepads. Sooooo, have you started decorating and planning for Christmas? What do you have planned this year?