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I worked on a new junk journal for December! One aspect of junk journaling that I love is the ability to use up crafty projects in a useful way. For example, I enjoy cross-stitching but I’m always at a loss for what to do with them once I’m finished. Anyway, I recently found a finished Santa piece that I made more than a decade ago! I had attached it to mounting board but woo, it was a terrible job. I pulled and warped the fabric and it was nowhere near straight. (I’m assuming I had planned to frame it for decor but the end result was so bad, I must have tucked it away in my craft box to deal with later, ha!) This week, I decided to pull it off the mounting board – sadly warping it even further – and used it as the cover of my December journal. It’s wonky and imperfect, but it’s something I made with my own hands and it didn’t end up in the trash! For the back, I whipped up a quick hand-stitched hexagon piece from red and green fabrics I already owned. Voila! A fabric cover for all of our December memories.
New recipe of the week: pumpkin scones! Not too sweet and delicious.
A quote from Padre Pio: “…stay in the boat in which Our Lord has placed you, and let the storm come. You will not perish. It appears to you that Jesus is sleeping, but let it be so. Don’t you know that if he sleeps, his heart vigilantly watches over you? Let him sleep, but at the right time, he will awoken to restore your calm.”
My husband’s coworker and his wife just had their first baby! She was full term, but he was itty bitty (6lbs!) and has had to spend the past two weeks in the NICU. I picked up some adorable, tiny preemie outfits and had so much fun packaging it up.
Cute St. Nicholas 🙂