December Giveaway Winner!

We drove to Woodstock, Il yesterday and cut down our Xmas tree. It is so beautiful! We got a blue spruce again. It was raining and cold, but we found a great one. It is really blue with that "snowy" look. Which is nice, since it has yet to really snow here in Chicago. 

 Today we decorated it and it looks delightful. I have a nice assortment of horrific estate sale ornaments mixed with the cheap ones from Kmart that come in a tub. I used my tree skirt that I made last year, as well.

 Yes, that is a jug of beer to the right. Andrew and my brother have been brewing beer. That is actually batch two and batch one turned out pretty well!

The winner of the patterns is....

Kristin! Kristin, please email me your address at mollysewsblog@gmail{dot}com.

Thanks!

Christmas Stockings!

I finally found time yesterday to make our Xmas stockings. I took the pieces of cut fabric to All Seasons Screenprinting and they embroidered the names. That was about 30 bucks, but I don't have the tools to do it on my machine and it wouldn't look as nice. 

 I used that piece of vintage holly fabric from an estate sale. I added the green pom pom trim and gold ric rac.

 I love them! I went to Joann and was determined to have pom pom trim. They were totally sold out of red and they had a really dark, ugly green and this bright green. Luckily I had a fabric swatch and it matched. I later realized it is exactly the same as my crazy 70s pajamas!

Merry Xmas and Happy Holidays!