Christmas Revisited

Everyone around me seems to talk about the whirlwind of getting things ready for Christmas and don't mention the aftermath of Christmas: the reorganizing.  I know my place was a total wreck when I got back from spending Christmas at home because I had left almost everything where I had left it prior to going home.  There were rolls of wrapping paper on the floor, craft items on various workspaces, my sewing machine open with the last thread I was using still wound, several bags and receipts about, etc.  Not to mention, I had a birthday dinner party to get ready for the day after I got back to town.  So yay for my Giraffe for getting things ready while I was away and he was in town again.  (*huggles*)

Now that everyone has received their handmade gifts, I can finally post the results of my hard, albeit very fun, work.  I still need to retrieve some pictures from Victoria, so those will be posted later.

We'll start with the ones that were given out at the Thanksmas celebration at Foodie's house. His present is one of those pictures to be posted later, but his fiance got some custom recipe cards.

The guys in Giraffe's family got homemade beef jerky.  Some of the guys ate their whole tin of jerky before all the presents were even unwrapped.  Success!

Undy, who loves the color red, got an apron with little aprons on it.

Astro got a hobo bag that she decided to use for her laptop and accessories.  I also have to post her expression because one day she's going to win the Nobel prize and I like having these kind of pictures handy. 

For Victoria, I had to redo her present because I had originally used fleece instead of the final crocheting, and didn't allow enough room for your hand to go into the mitten.  So she got her Christmas present for her birthday, which is New Year's Eve.  However, she really got her present a week or two later at a Chick-Fil-A.  

These are no ordinary mittens.  They're smittens!  You and your person each wear a mitten on the outer hand and then there is a big one for both your hands between you.  So you can hold hands while walking around in the cold. 

It looks like Victoria is about to deck Bo.  Well, she might have.  It was too cold that night for me to remember much in the parking lot.

All in all, Handmade Christmas 2008 was a success, and I plan on doing it again this year.  I started on the presents early, but I took too long a break between starting and leaving for Christmas and some presents I didn't even come up with the idea until the last minute.  Let's just say I was pretty sick of the single crochet come Christmas.