We’ve committed to our creative endeavors this year. We spent all of yesterday in the cafe working on Isaiah’s sketchbook and a children’s story. It was a beautiful day, filled with close friends, four-or-five bottles of champagne and projects that exercised our creative minds.
Through our chronic state of unemployment and an interest in being more creative, I committed to all handmade gifts this Christmas and had a great time with it. I used to be a serious cross-stitcher. Except that I was around 12 years old when I quit. Yikes.
Embroidering and working on some crafty, homemade goodness lately has been therapeutic. A friend of mine and I have been talking with five or six local stores about consigning our work – design and handmade-wise. It has me thinking – through all of the DIY-project searches I’ve done for inspiration as of lately, looking for radical handmade Christmas gift ideas and what not, finding non-wedding projects that are actually awesome is kind of a tough hunt.
So from my Pinterest to you in the wake of ChristmaHanaKwanzika and the creation of my apparent love for blog series’…I want to share a badass DIY with a tutorial every Sunday. If you strenuously object, we’ll talk in chambers. Wait…I’ve been watching way too much Boston Legal.
Check out the tutorial on Matter of Style and get creative with your candy wrapper, eco-friendly goodness.
