Christmas Presents Revealed

I feel that I have too much information to go into one post (I should have posted sooner, but kept myself busy with the house) so you are going to be lucky enough to get two posts today. Besides, they are two different thougth processes with these posts so... feel the love!

Christmas was very nice. We had Chad's family here (well, a good portion of it) and I ended up working only three days in a row instead of four as they called me and told me to stay home on Christmas day. I was very lucky! And it made me feel better as I had continued my Christmas tradition of attending Midnight Mass and hadn't gotten home until 1:40 in the morning. I ended up staying awake but it was nice to not to have to feel obligated to.

The Christmas presents were well recieved and I still felt guilty that I didn't finish as many as I wanted to as I have lofty goals (hence the 2008 project list already posted) and thought I would be able to complete things more quickly than I did.

This, below, is the complicated project that I refered to:
This is counted cross stitch, something I don't do frequently but do like to do on occasion. This was for my father-in-law, who told me the only problem with it was that I hadn't, at that time, signed my name to it and put the year on it. Needless to say, if that's the only complaint, I'm thrilled and fixed that easily for him.

Can I pause here a moment and tell you how much I love that I have family members, maybe not all of them, but most, that appreciate crafts as gifts. They understand the time and love that go into them which makes me feel so much better about it. It does make my desires of what I want to craft, vastly expanded, but that works for me as it keeps me busy.

The next one you've only seen in glimpses like this:
Grown up and full that is really this:
A snake for Chad's stepmother. She had made a comment while we were spending time together when I was at their place for SAFF that she wished she could have a snake but unfortunately situations wouldn't let her. I knew then what I would be making her.

I tried to do my own pattern, but seeing as I have this problem with depth perception and visualization of placements and such, that just didn't work for me. So, I followed a very simple pattern from a book that I have for knitted toys (the same one I worked from Kelly's present for).

I racked up on wonderful gifts myself. And am already, with Fredrick, planning to make wonderful items from them. As well as enjoying other ones that I got. (I've got to print pictures for myself to fully enjoy some of them, instead of using all my ink for others... my fault.)


I hope you all had just as much love and joy from Christmas as I did (an am, as for me Christmas lasts until January 6 - the Epiphany - and the tree stays up until then...).