I love making the design for my holiday cards each year! I like getting in the holiday mood sketching out different ideas, and then choosing my favorite. This year's snowman got to be the star of both my holiday cards and promo postcards. No wonder he's happy. I can't wait to send him and his big smile out in the world!
Every year I design a holiday card to send out to clients (and also to friends and family!) This year I decided to design 4 different ones that went together. And monsters as as theme is fun to do-I have endless ideas with them! I have some at my Chicken Girl Design Shop if you are interested. Monster holiday greetings are the best! -Jannie
This won't surprise anyone who knows me but I love to work on all sorts of crafts. Lately I've taken up spinning, and I also like to knit, sew and crochet.
One of my favourite things to do is combine drawing with crafts by embroidering little pictures onto the things I knit or sew. This is one of my needle books with an embroidered branch with flowers. It's my way of making my things one-of-a-kind.
What a coincidence, Anette bakes chocolate chip cookies in her spare time and I eat them in mine. :)
Let's see, what do I do with my time? I have no idea. I was going to write about how I enjoy sewing and gardening but to be honest, I haven't gardened all summer. And the last time I sewed anything was about two months ago. I wonder if other mom's have this issue. It seems like I'm busy all the time, but I'm not sure what I'm doing or if I'm accomplishing anything. Take this evening for instance. I got my son off the school bus. Made dinner. Made sure my son was doing his homework on the computer. Ate dinner. Helped the other kid with her hair and got her out the door for her event. Reminded the first kid to finish his homework. Washed the dinner dishes. Again, told kid number one to focus on his homework and to stop playing with all the formatting options in MS Word. Watched 15 minutes of the news on TV. Finally ended up hovering over the computer to make sure the boy was finishing his homework and not playing with the fonts in Word. Then I took my son to the library so he could pick out some new books. While there, we played a board game. Then we went to Target to buy a b-day present for the neighbor boy. Then I came home, watched another 15 minutes of TV while the kiddos were getting their pajamas on. Then we cuddled and read a chapter of Paddington. After everyone was tucked in (for the second time) I wrote this blog post and drew the little hamster to go with it which brings us up to 10 p.m.
You know, I'm kind of glad I wrote this. I was feeling bad about not having time to garden and sew much lately. But by taking the time to list out everything I did tonight, I no longer feel like I'm just spinning my wheels.
- I go for walks or run in my neighborhood. I feel so lucky to live near the ocean. It's beautiful around here.
- I read books (novels, chapter books for children, picture books).
- I watch tv (it makes me relax).
- For the last year (after we moved into our house) I've had a lot of small projects going on in the house and garden. I love decorating, and there's always something to do.
- Something I've also started doing after we moved in is baking. Chocolate cookies, yum!
My favorite place to go for inspiration is definitely the magic world of books. I've always loved all kind of books. I love reading novels, looking at picture books and flipping through design books. They all inspire me in different ways!
