A Hit and a Miss

I spent my recovery day working on Christmas crafts. One hit. One miss.

First the hit. I have an old ornament from when I was little and it's become a bit of a family lore story (too long and extra uninteresting to retell here). I'm making similar ones for Christmas table favors. Everyone is getting pictures important to them. Most of us are getting grand baby pictures, but I'm did a couple of others.

My new "thing" is same day picture ordering from CVS. So fast. So inexpensive. First I changed the pictures to Silvertone from editing. I like the vintage look with the soft gold lids.

I spray painted jar lids with some leftover paint, punched a hole with a journal making pick, hot glued holiday fabric and TA-DA.

The original. I had to replace
the ribbon which had disintegrated.

For my aunt.

The back.

I like to have a little crafty project on the Christmas dinner table.

The second project was a bust. I bought the candy -- couldn't find the colors I needed though. Peanut butter needed to be Christmas and topper just silver, but good enough to practice. I found long toothpicks with stars on top. Try as I might, I couldn't get the candy to hold. Toothpick won't go through the top candy. Double sided tape wasn't strong enough. Hot glue didn't even hold. Total bust. Oh well. I have candy to stuff the advent now. IG fail.

Little Christmas trees.

Today is jam-packed with lots of little things. Too many to-dos hanging around and I want to get organized. I already finished a few items this morning. 

The list is LONG and a bit aspirational. I probably won't get to everything, but it should be good progress.

If my stomach holds, I'll be hiking and lunching most of the day tomorrow. Time is ticking on many things and DOING relaxes me when the list itself becomes the stress.

Hope you are off to a good start to the week. Later gators.