Craft time!

I took down the final trace of Christmas today…

By the time all of the holiday cards came in the mail, it ended up looking like a giant mass of randomness on our wall, but it started out as a crafty attempt to display our cards.

Stolen from/inspired by Martha Stewart, I started with my hot glue gun, the largest embroidery hoop I could find, some wide wired ribbon and two sizes of clothespins.  Hot glue was strung everywhere, and I burned many fingertips in the process.

I twisted the last bit of ribbon to hang it and started adding cards.  At first, we had so few I had to include my mom’s Thanksgiving card and our own holiday card. Eventually we had so many cards I had to add clothespins to the hanging ribbon, creating the holiday-card-blob seen above.

Now it is completely empty, but still on the wall.  I like the green ribbon because it was Christmas-y enough, but it also complements the white and yellow of our living room/entry way walls.  My next project is to find a handful of pictures to display here during all non-Christmas times.

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I have been really bad at snapping shots of our culinary adventures, but there have been some tasty ones, and I promise I intend to get back to some regular posting soon.

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