December Photo Dump (and lots of Naomi)

 

One of my favorite winter decorations, makes me miss the maker more every time I light it.

St. Nicholas Day

(I found these gorgeous red carved klompen at a flea market this fall!  My favorite! That tempers my disappointment that Jemima got ahold of two wooden klompen and chewed them up, spoiling TWO PAIRS just when I had enough for everyone in the family.   uuuuuughhhhhhhhhhhhhh.  Dogs can be so annoying sometimes!)

Field trip with Littles to a local glass studio to make handmade glass ornaments!  So FUN!

Moments before this picture was taken, Moses dropped his and it split in two.  After initial panic and frustration... nothing that a bit of super glue and a smooch couldn't repair.

For Christmas, Matt got me the most frivolous, superfluous serving tray ever.

 I love it beyond words.

12 Days of Christmas stockings

When Naomi comes to visit, everyone wants to hold her:

Cantrell Country Christmas, minus a few:

Moses made himself a knife and Adele' woodburned the handle for him. 
Now this cowboy is prepared for anything.

A red sweater set for Naomi, who had outgrown it before I even finished it.  So it became a red sweater set for a tiny baby Lizzie instead.  How fortunate to have lots of sweet little babies around these days!

A bigger red hat for Naomi with a clearance Christmas blanket I've had stored up for years.

Judah's first buck!

(AND, he won a prize for the most interesting hunting account at Trail Life, to boot!)

More of Naomi.  Can you blame me?!

Christmas Feasting at church

Mid-December I set up a table at a craft fair alongside my sister.  The original plan was to do children's books gift packages but then I decided to paint a few wooden people too.

(The absolute CHAOS of craft fair tables)

I enlisted the help of talented friends to help me round out my table.

My sister.  Clearly, this isn't her first rodeo.

I stayed up way too late, on too many nights, wrapping book presents and painting wooden people.

The worst part was... out of all the little wooden people and all the lack of sleep I sacrificed to make them, I sold only two.

To my sister.

(Thank you, Elizabeth.  I love you!)

I am about 99.9% sure no one even looked at them, actually.  Even still, I think they are cute and I am going to keep on painting them.  Maybe they aren't good sellers at craft shows, but there are lots of children in my life.  And, Lord willing, will be lots of grandbabies to enjoy them someday.  

(Maybe next time, I won't do it around between 1 and 2am though.  MAYBE.)

I took pictures of them all in case I sold a bunch, so I could replicate them next year. 

HA!

After snapping this picture, I realized Goldilocks didn't have a face.  I fixed it immediately. 

I assure you, she now has eyes to see.  

I loved making this one, in particular, because Granny and the Wolf are in a single doll.  Reminds me of those old vintagey flip dolls of Red Riding Hood.  Anyone remember them?

I made two nativity sets, copying the ones I made years ago.

One of them will definitely be making its' way to the grandbaby one day.  ;-)

If it hadn't been for all the craft show cramming, I might have been able to do more Christmas crafting than just these few measley ornament gifts.  Alas, that's all there was.

Technically, not in December, but still in Christmas territory, the children and I fried up fresh donut holes for a donut tree for Epiphany.

I carried it on my lap in the car for 45 minutes without snitching a single one.  

A Christmas miracle, in and of itself.

That's all for now!

Next up, Ineke's DOUBLE DIGIT BIRTHDAY!!!