We did re-paint the girls room ( never having changed it from the red it was before we switched rooms with the girls) there were to many bright colors. That and it needed some shelving. We still need to redo the flooring but for now we have a decent start. This though is where some of the sewing came into play, though pretty boring. I made the girls a few new pillows for their bed from some black and white care fabric I had been saving and some gray cotton, that and a curtain was all for their room.
Beyond that I mostly made Christmas cookies to mail out to family. I really enjoy choosing which cookies to make each year as well as finding little tons or making little bags to send the cookies out in. This yearns used three different recipes from The Nordic Cookbook. I was lucky enough to receive for my birthday from my wonderful mom. I ended up making chewy ginger snaps, Jewish biscuits ( which were my favorites) and a krumkake recipe. Now that I am thinking about it, the krumkake recipe was an old one a wrote down a while back and am not sure where I foundn it.
Either or, I wrapped up all the baking yesterday and fotbtonsneakbin a bit more sewing today. Making small bags for the cookies was a nice way to practice French seams, plus they turned out pretty adorable. Kiki was rather excited to be my cookie tester for the week.
One last project that I finished up earlier this evening turned out better than I had hoped. The girls have a birthday party this weekend for their friends little brother who is turning one. After much discussion husband convinced me a fat zebra would make a lovely present and I will admit it was the right call.
But for now I am just happy I managed to sneak as much sewing into my Christmas cookie week as I did. And now that all the cookies are packed ready to be shipped, and the little projects for friends and extended family are finished I can return to making a few more little things for three girls before Christmas gets here.
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