Skirt Project

January 3, 2011

Create

Create is one of my Daily Do's in 2011...

My example for tomorrow's lesson. There will be a substitute. I have jury duty.

Blog is another one of my Daily Do's.

January 2, 2011

Big & Small

The title refers to my Christmas gifts. Let's start with the first one I opened...

It was small, but beautifully wrapped. I especially liked the cute tag and slip knotted ribbons.

Surprise!

It was a Fun Meal! A surprise within itself. I discovered these last month and fell hard for Fun Meals!

You can get them here. I have two so far...

Mexican Night and Drive N' Go.

It's hard not to go out and buy them all at once, but I will wait until pay day. They're only $5, but it's about the surprise inside.

Next, was a BIG gift! I love the fabric Jon used to wrap my gift - it's so soft and cozy, and it's gingham.

It was a BIG wrapping job for a BIG gift!

A BIG SPOON!

A friend and I saw these really large utensils at Pier 1 imports back in November. I loved them, as only I could. I was so surprised that he remembered, and we had fun taking silly pictures with it in front of the Christmas tree.

My next gift was small, but also wrapped so wonderfully....

A stack of pink felt, held together with thick cotton string.

Jon had built a structure that held a tiny little box, and I had to open a series of felt flaps to get to the box.

This is what was inside...

Sterling silver scissors from here.

I also got a gingham apron from Jon's mom, a book from my mom that I can't wait to read, and another BIG item from last year's list. Yay!

I've been on a creative kick lately. Lots of paper cutting in the past few days. I am sad, but excited that I go back to work tomorrow. Excited for a new year, but also sad - I want to keep making stuff. Perhaps I can do it all this year.... We'll see.

Happy New Year!

~xoxo

The First

I went to see a movie yesterday,

and ate my black eyed peas.

January 1, 2011

The last day of 2010...

Started with a mani/pedi...

Oops! Not in a skirt...

It's been a while since I've put color on my toes and finger tips. I wish I could handle some color, but I can't. I prefer to worry and watch other things besides the paint on my nails chip and flake away...
But if I were to choose, I suppose I would choose something dark and sparkly.

I love the idea of the possibilities, so I made a collage about it.

And this next photo belongs in the category of random...

What you have here is a photo of Merlin, who walks a tight rope on Belmont. We went on a bike ride yesterday and ran into Merlin. He invited us to try his tight rope and share a "few" words of wisdom.

I love the randomness of this event. I didn't wake up yesterday thinking, "I will balance on a tight rope today."

Just another day in the life?

December 31, 2010

It's a Wrap

I can't believe it's the last day of 2010. What a great year it has been! It seems that every year of Skirt Project is a year of major change. I'm trying to keep up, but I have my work cut out for me in 2011...

A few weeks ago, I changed the masthead of my blog using these super awesome stamps that my mom has had since the 1950's.

It's a complete set! A total find in my own house, and so much fun to use! I am finding new uses for the stamps everyday, and every holiday. It's so exciting. I used these stamps to make my tags for my Christmas gifts.

I traced a tag from my collection: stamped one side for the recipient of the gift and spray glued gorgeous paper on the other side.

I loved this detail to my gifts.

A close up:

One night, Jon and I made snow flakes, just because... They turned out lovely, so we decided to use them on our gifts.

P.S. Please notice the gorgeous glitter paper and ribbon that decorate these packages. Paper is from here.

Here are some photos of Jon's gifts. I made a little game out of it... I used my number stamps for five gifts. If I had thought about it more, there would have been a theme. Instead, I gave him stuff I knew he would enjoy having in no random order.

#1.

A set of Micron pens - .005

A candle for the man cave.

A calendar for the man cave.

Wool argyle socks, for colder climates to come.

I know, it's a bag. Gift bags are kind of lame, but it's a bag that I knew he would like, and a bag that would hold this book.

I think Jon had a WONDERFUL Christmas, after all he is Mr. Wonderful.

Here's a peek for my next post...

Jon's Christmas to me!

Yay!

December 30, 2010

Ladybug

Look! There's a ladybug on my windshield... on my way to find out about...

The future ?

In some cultures, Ladybugs are a symbol/sign of good luck.

I'm down with that, so I made one out of paper.

December 20, 2010

Merry Monday

Last Monday we hosted a little get together at our place.

It was 75°F (24°C), so the windows are up. I decorated with snowflakes from Paper Source and red and green paper chains. Jon made the Christmas tree, similar to the one we had last year. It's bigger this year, because everything is bigger in Texas. We used the same ornaments... that makes me smile.

Did you see the Chesterfield Couch?

Jon scored that a week earlier at an estate sale. It's awesome.

Here's a photo of the spread that we served... I'm not so into cooking since we moved back.

Maybe it has something to do with the 650 students I see every week...

Merry Monday, as we called it, was an excuse to serve mulled wine and have our friends over.

It was delicious! We liked this recipe best. Many of our friends had never had it before, and it was fun to share and make. It reminded me so much of the Christmas Markets last year. I think I am finally coming to terms with this simple fact - I miss Belgium.

Later that night, we cleaned up a bit, watched Singles and waited for the Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse.