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After being told that I'd heard enough taddeling on her sister, Audrey proceeded to go and get a pad of paper to write "tickets" for all of her wrongdoings: productive use of her new sentence skills if you ask me.

semi homemade

In my attempt to not pay for personalized pottery barn kids stockings, I purchased stockings from Hobby Lobby and spent 4589 hours personalizing them myself. I loved that they had 2 different girls. I didn't think it was going to be very fair to let one sister be the ballerina and one be the anythingbesidestheballerina.

The most obvious thing that needed to be personalized was the yellow hair. Second was that they were very pink and pink and not so much red and green.I didn't let things like "what show are those girls from?" and "agggh I wanted one than sings" and "why can't they have snowflake eyes?" and "mommy you forgot to feed us lunch" and "honey I don't have any more clean socks" stop me. I was on a creative mission.The names were the hardest part. Hello, that's what got me in this mess in the first place was the catalog that has all of the stockings with the perfectly monogrammed names that I've been drooling over for years and years. I think I tried at least 5 different ways (one of which resulted in a quick re purchase and start over on a stocking) before settling on this.My favorite part? That I'm done. I hope that the girls will love them and want to use them from now on.

At least they better.

what i've been doing in my spare time part 4

And last but not least...our girls

*spoiler alert* this is our Christmas card picture

what i've been doing in my spare time part 3

Lily

what i've been doing in my spare time part 2

Trav's mom bought matching Christmas outfits for all of the grandkids. Getting 6 little ones to sit still and look the same direction is quite a process. In my opinion, the bad ones are just as fun to look at as the good ones and usually end up showing more individual personalities albeit not all on the same shot. I ended up making a frame out of the outtakes for the finished product.

what i've been doing in my spare time part 1

During our October family get together, I took school pictures for my nieces and nephew. The lighting was absolutely perfect that day. And they were so very easy to work with...

halloween

Audrey as a fashion witch and Lucy as a care bear.

Jody as Sharpay and Honey as a bee Lucy "growling" at the trick or treaters because she's a bear.