Craft Time!

So every year around this time I get a hankering to do some crafting. I love making stuff and really the only point I can see to it is to give it away to people, so Christmas is the perfect time to get creative. I ventured to Micheal's after work yesterday and was all geared up for some frolicking through the aisles and to start my Christmas craft plan. Then the power went out, I was in the store maybe two minutes. I was one of those ridiculous shoppers I used to roll my eyes at, who had to be asked to leave because left to my own devices I would stay there shopping by emergency light, squinting at thread colors and making my choices oblivious to the fact that I couldn't actually buy anything because the registers were down. I was so bummed, but I went back today after work and shopped. I actually left with a reasonable amount of craft items, as in only two projects that I actually could complete before the holidays.

My first big project is a sampler for my friend's baby due January first. I made one for her first child and figure the second needs one too. Well, in the past three years it seems like everyone has stopped selling those prepackaged cross stitch kits. I found them online, but for some reason I am not a big online shopper. I think it's mainly to do with the fact I hate waiting for shipping. I want it now, and I don't want to play the purolator delivery game. So I found a pattern I liked online and painstakingly copied it from the photo onto  a piece of graph paper. It took a few night's of work but I have a pattern I can now use to create my masterpiece. I had a lot of fun in the floss aisle picking out the colours I wanted to use.

Of course while I was there I checked out the Christmas aisles for some project ideas. Not a lot was out just yet but I did find some ready to paint ornaments I just couldn't pass up. Then of course I needed metallic paint.

This is what always happens at Micheal's. I actually did good by only buying the ornaments as impulse purchases. I only did so by avoiding the scrap booking aisles completely.

In other news I have shoveled three times in the past three days and it is still snowing. It's not a whole lot coming down, but it's the sort of thing if you don't keep on top of it, it will become a ginormous job. I am over it already. Oh winter.