Our first Christmas

William and I had a wonderful Christmas season. We started off December with my 27th birthday and our annual trip to the mountains. This was our 3rd year going to the mountains and it seems to get better each year we go. Here are a few snap shots of our trip.

William with the horses we saw outside of the resturant. They were so pretty.

I am a little apprehensive because the horse kept turning its head towards me. (These were taken with my phone, so it is a little blurry.)

This was hillarious. William bought food out of the machine and the birds attacked him. He looks like the lady on Home Alone 2 when all of the birds come sit on her arms.

I wish I had taken more pictures, but I always forget. Next year I will take more especially since William's parents gave me an awesome camera for Chirstmas!

This year we also attended the 2nd annual Tacky Christmas Sweater Party hosted by Dana and Ryan Doss....here we are in our tackiest...Always wearing my pink!! :)

Here is our first Christmas tree. I have always had a real tree at my house, and William did too up until a few years ago. i wanted to start our tradition off right with a real tree. We bought it at Home Depot, and it took us about 30 minutes to find the perfect one. Or should I say it too me 30 minutes. Excuse my husband's turkey mount on the wall. I promise we are not that redneck. My bow was not perfect, I never go the time to find a tutorial on how to make one. Oh well it was fine for our house anyways.

Our stockings. We do not have a fire place at our town home, so I decided to hang them on the stairs. This picture was taken before I put up the real garland that I bought at Lowes.  It was cute and made the house smell soo good.

One of my presents from William.....

I am ready to begin my sewing!!! 

I think I will start with something easy like a table runner or a scarf. My nieces will have tons of cute home made dresses!!!

When I begin making things I will take pictures with my new camera and share it with you!!!

Hope you had a Merry Christmas!!
What was your #1 gift? Did you get anything to help you be more crafty?

Busy Bee

I feel like I have been a busy bee since the last time that I posted something! Not crafting as much as I wish. I can say that I have bought several things to start projects, but I have not completed but a few.

Here is a picture of my classroom door. I teach 8th grade ELA and I figured the students would either love or make fun of my snowman...and to my surprise, most of them LOVE it!! I got the idea off of Pinterest!

~notice the monogram on the side of the scarf? FST (Frosty the Snowman) LOL!

Skip back to Halloween....

       I wanted a cool bucket to give out candy. When I was at Michaels one day I saw this witches bucket and I just had to have it. I also bought paint pens to decorate it. The bucket was $9 plus 50% off + my 15% teacher's discount. I also got the pain pens with a 50% off coupon so they were $8 for 5-6 colors.

I messed up the wording because I was trying to be so perfect on it, and there is nothing to take it off, at least not at my house. So I might fix it next Halloween. What do you think? I bought way too much candy and ended up taking it to school to give to my students.

One Saturday morning two other teachers and I got together and I showed them how to make cheap coasters. We decided to make them for the other teachers as a Christmas present. The two monogrammed ones are for the teachers that I taught my new skill too and the purple and yellow ones are for the teachers at the school. It is an easy task....$0.16 tiles from Home Depot, hot glue, paper (pictures, scrapbook paper, etc), modge podge, acrylic, and cork board that you can get at Joanns is a big roll for cheap $2 or so.

I am going to try and be better at blogging. I might have to blog about more than just my crafts since I am not completing things that I start.

 Is anyone else bad about not completing projects that you start? Or buying things and never even beginning? I am guilty of both.

I am going to the mountains this weekend, I am so ready to get away and enjoy time with my husband, sister, and her husband.

Enjoy!! :)