Top 5 Posts of 2010

It's fun to look at my blog's stats. Here are the posts that have been most popular this year among the readers.

5: Refugee Metal Recipe Boxes
4: Baby Shoe Tutorial
3: Small Button-Front Bag Tutorial
2: Toddler Winter Hat Tutorial

And #1:
Toddler Yoga Skirt

Want to Make: Tasty Recipes

I have got to make this french toast recipe.
Love this woman's blog.

Also, found these brownie covered oreos on another favorite blog.

My mom makes this great chocolate sauce for Christmas dessert (it is good on ice cream or ice cream pies, which we also have made!)

...Nothing says "Merry Christmas" like Pink Eye...

My poor little boy has pink eye. Thank goodness for the great doctor who had hours today on Christmas Eve and could see him at 8:45 am! I should have taken him yesterday but I didn't really know what pink eye looked like. Now I'll ALWAYS know!

But anyway, just wanted to thank everyone who has been reading and watching my blog this year. I've gotten more followers than I'd anticipated and have had a ton of hits, especially the last two months. It has been a busy month for me; we moved all of our things from our house, will be closing on our old house and our new construction home next week, and oh yeah, my sewing machine was in the shop for about two weeks. So that's why I haven't had any tutorials lately! I'm planning to come back strong in January, though. I have a few projects in mind.

Merry Christmas. I hope you all take some time to reflect on who Jesus Christ was and is and think about hows our lives can be lived in glory to Him.

Want to Make: Gifts for Men

Have trouble making things for the men in your life? I sure do. Probably should've thought of making some of these before today...but here are some ideas:

paint chip business card holder

my husband desperately wants a bow tie. I was planning to make him one with this tutorial. I haven't yet.

This is a neat idea for making a zippered case. Every guy needs one!

Christmas Stockings

I got on a Christmas stocking-making kick last year. I had bought fabric the year before and just hadn't done anything with it.

-I just cut a pattern out of a cereal box (I do wish I'd made the heel of the stocking a little squigglier)

- cut 4 pieces of fabric for each stocking (I lined them)

-pin the ribbon for the stocking holder in between the right sides of the outside of the stocking

- sew two together for the outside (if you want to sew anything on it, do that before sewing it together)

-sew the lining pieces together (leaving a hole for turning in the lining, just like you're making a bag

-and then put them wrong sides together at the top, sew a seam, and then turned the whole thing

Then I just sewed the hole in the lining together.

Now you can decorate it with felt shapes or letters! I used the fusible interfacing to iron on to the felt, peeled off the back, and then ironed it to the stocking.