What did I do!?

For most people Christmas is over and has been for a while.  All the Christmas stuff is shoved into plastic bins and trash bags packed away nicely until next year, their tree is down and the house is once again in order.  Not the case for me.  Why?  Because being the insane person that I am I thought doing a craft show next November (for the first time by-the-way) would be FUN.  Well, that meant that I spent the week after Christmas scavenging like a desperate rat shopping the "after Christmas sales" at just about every store you can think of for goodies.  I bought WAY too much stuff...to, wait for it...CRAFT with!  Yep.  I can tell your shocked.  So, while everyone in their right mind is over Christmas (or at least Christmas stuff) I am in the midst of it.  I'm sick of Christmas stuff.  I may need to take a break.

I've made over 70 of these:

And 56 of these:

And just a few of these:

Not to mention about 100 gift tags like these:

So, if they don't sell you all know what you'll be getting for Christmas next year from me.

Holiday inspiration

I can't stop thinking about the holidays and I'm really fighting the urge to put up the holiday decorations.  I mean REALLY fighting it!  I've been cutting my cravings by making some holiday gifts and decorations.  Miss Mustard Seed has really inspired me this year with her sheet music wreaths and ornaments.  I could only get my hands on one book of music so I used that to make this wreath.

But I do have lots of old, falling apart books so I think I will use those to make my ornaments this year.  So far I have only made one of these (I wanted to test out the look before I committed to making a whole tree worth).

But my favorite by far is this book wreath tree topper I made yesterday evening.  I basically used an El Cheapo chipboard like coaster that I bought in a set of four for 50 cents at the craft store this summer ( I just knew that I could use them for something).  I covered it with parchment colored scrapbook paper.  I then made several (maybe 20) cones out of vintage book pages.  I broke out my trusty hot glue gun and got down to work.  So this vintage inspired tree topper cost me nothing!  Well except a couple of hot glue burns.  Yay!

Yes, that's a oil bottle.  Like I said, fighting the urge!

Party time...