December has been a wonderful month full of surprises and fun. Christmas was lovely. It was an interesting first year trying to have a Christmas tree up with two cats in the house. I had to keep ornaments and garland away from the bottom. Other decorations I didn't bother putting up cause I knew my kitten would go after them. I didn't do brunch at my house this year either. I had way more family in town this year, than past years and there was no way I could entertain them all in our little place. Maybe next year since we are planning to move in 2016.
This month we had our Christmas Disney trip. It was magnificent.
If you ever go, I highly recommend the Old Key West Resort. It was so peaceful and gorgeous.
And this kind of sort of happened that weekend too...
YES! I got engaged! It was a whole surprise that my family was totally in on. My dear boyfriend (now fiance) originally told me he couldn't go with us cause he had to work. Well he pulled a few strings and surprised me while we were in Hollywood Studios. I had a feeling he was up to something, but not this! It was a perfect early Christmas present in a place that is so magical to me.
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So after our fun weekend, it was back to reality and planning for Christmas. Like every year, I have the best intentions to finish gifts early before the big day, but stuff always comes up. I did manage to finish some gifts in time.
I made two more scarfs using perlescent, worsted weight yarn from Expression Fiber Arts. This yarn is so squishy soft, I bought too much! Again I had the best intentions on making more...
A scarf for my sister.
This red one I finished like 30 minutes before we needed to leave to my parents house on Christmas morning. My stepmom loved it.
I also found a cute tutorial by Shabby Fabrics for these cute box bags. You can find many helpful tutorials on You Tube by following their channel. These were a very last minute Christmas Eve...Evening project. They are meant to be a quick project, but it took me several hours of watching the You Tube video over and over before things started making sense. I think they turned out real cute and they took almost no material to make.
Well that is all I have to share today. Its been a great month and I can't wait to see what 2016 has in store for us. We don't have a wedding date set. We are going to focus on getting a new place in the beginning of the year first and then we will focus on wedding plans afterwards.
I wish you all a fabulous New Years. Be safe and we will chat again next year!
**Hugs and Love from Sunny Miami**
Jen
