Holidays are Coming!

 I ADORE Christmas time! It is my favorite time of the year. I love family time, decorations, vacation, and celebrating the reason for the season.

So I told my students about my obsession with Christmas and having everything match with a theme of colors. Last year we had a Cowboys themed tree. This year upon Matt's request I included a smaller mini tree that was Mavericks themed. My students thought I was insane as I explained that only matching ornaments can go on the big tree and all other family, gift, etc. ornaments must go on the smaller tree. I think it works for me and it makes me happy which is most important! I also have always had a small obsession with having solid brown wrapping paper. Matt says it looks like cardboard. I say its gorgeous. But then a few days ago we ran out and apparently everyone in town agreed that brown is beautiful because it

 was all sold out! Frustrating so we had to add solid white wrapping paper. Its okay...


This is not the best picture but my awesome mother-in-law gifted to me this pair of salt & pepper shakers. She received a set and so she wanted to pass on the tradition. I love them because they are so darn cute!

 So Matt is not a huge Christmas fan. Which is why I compromise on the sports themed Christmas trees. He does however love Nutcrackers and Snowglobes. So he has started a small collection of Nutcrackers and it wouldn't be in Matt style if they were German and Irish Nutcrackers. Of course...

I did have a student gift me a snow globe this year! It was a little snowmen family. I was so excited!

This is my show-and-tell time! My co-workers have been making these sprocket pillows and I have been itching to go to the fabric store to make some! SO as soon as school was released I rushed to the quilt store and found this adorable Sock Monkey Santa print. The side is brown and looks knit. So adorable! Anyways I'm just pretty proud! I have a few other projects in the works so hopefully I can finish and show them off soon!