I’ve been craving to craft lately, but with a very needy newborn it’s proven more difficult than I anticipated. Luckily my husband had a few days off work and since he was home to care for the baby I decided to do a little family project. I love to document the growth of our children in our life and decided I would make a little art for the hallway incorporating that.

So here’s a review of most of the handmade gifts I made for family members this past Christmas.

We’ll start off with the nieces - such fun to make gifts for kids.
Katie loves bows and her mom suggested a bow holder. So I made her one, in her fave colors and personalized with her name.

She seemed to love it!

Then there was little River’s present.  I made her two soft blocks, one is filled with plastic bags and the other has stuffing and bells.  She’s too little for them right now, but …

Hey blogland!  I hope your holiday was as great as mine!  I was going to make the first post after the Christmas season all about the presents I made for others and how they were received.  I’ll share those at a later date, as I’m head over heels in love with watercolors.  I love to paint and have used oils and acrylics in the past.  I never thought I’d like watercolors, but over the last 3-4 years I kept wanting to play with it.  Then I started doing those relief …

Yes - that is a direct quote from the corny movie Galaxy Quest… and yes… I even enjoyed watching it!

Have you ever had these awesome projects in your head that you just KNEW were going to come out awesome… and then.. well they took a wrong turn somewhere? That’s been my experience this week.

I give you the newest addition to the Joss Whedon inspired set for River - representing Dollhouse.

This is one of my favorite shows right now, though I wonder if they are going to try to cancel it.  I really like the color yellow, but I wish I would have put the design lower on the body.

The design is basically the beds in dollhouse - if you’ve watched it then I hope you could tell that without me explaining it
And finally - the set is complete.

Starting with the one …