What A Great Thanksgiving And Is It Time For Christmas Already?

I hope that each of you had a great Thanksgiving!  This time of the year is so much fun, but also soooo busy!  We were able to have Thanksgiving with family close by on Thursday and then traveled to North Carolina to have our second Thanksgiving with family.  Our kids love it!  They enjoy getting to see their cousins and playing with everyone.  We love "catching up" with family and indulging in all of the delicious food.  My family is so blessed to have so much family!  We are almost done decorating our house for Christmas.  The kids have a tree in each of their room's that they decorate and we have a family tree in the living room for all to decorate.  We used to put a tree in every room, but these days we are trying to simplify.  We are not there yet, but are trying!! 

I was able to make some early Christmas presents for my cousin in Florida.  We will not see her at Christmas so we celebrated early.  I enjoyed making her oldest a dress and embellishing a coordinating onsie to match.  I am excited to make handmade Christmas gifts for family this year.  I hope that they will enjoy each gift!  I love getting homemade or handmade gifts anytime of the year! So what is your favorite thing that someone homemade or handmade for you? 

Turkey's, Turkey's, Turkey's

Only 11 more days until we get to eat one of many yummy Thanksgiving meals and spend some extra time with family!  I have been trying to come up with a Thanksgiving outfit to make for my daughter out of this adorable polka dot fabric that I found.  As I was checking out this fabulous blog, Dressing Heidi Sage, and they had a post/tutorial on how to make a simple rectangle skirt!  I thought, "This is the perfect start because we all know time is of the essence!"  She also posted on how you can use your fabric as inspiration for the shirt.  I decided to use the fabric to make a yo-yo and to use it like the feathers on a turkey!  Well, I had another dilemma! The red shirt that I had on hand was supposed to be for her Christmas outfit!  So, I decided to make the turkey removable!  For the turkey, I cut out a turkey body from regular brown felt. I added a beak with yellow felt and hand stitched the eyes and waddle on.  I then sewed it onto the fabric yo-yo through the eyes of the turkey so that there would not be any extra stitches on him.  I attached it to the front of the lower left side of the shirt with a safety pin.  And viola, there I had a SIMPLE Thanksgiving outfit.  And you know I have to have a coordinating hair bow, so I made fabric yo-yo from the polka dot fabric and made a clip to attach to her brown bow.  With that said, you must check out this blog, she has the cutest ideas for clothes and this rectangle skirt is so simple!!