crafty girl christmas :)

girl christmas was a success! last year we decided to be crafty, but this year, we decided to each make a craft for every girl, and it was wonderful! i have such crafty friends! i will attempt to tell stories with pictures below.. :)



For my craft, I made little Christmas aprons for all the girls! For the tutorial, go to Darby's blog (which is pretty wonderful in itself) :) Megan let me borrow her sewing machine, so I got to work!
The first time I made an apron from this tutorial, I flew through it and ignored a whole lot of steps like pinning and ironing, but since these were presents, i listened to all the rules, as you can see above..


The finished products are above! Aren't my friends precious?! And Cory is going to have a tiny baby! Love it.
Rachel, who is so crafty that she has her own little jewelry business called Stella Bella Boutique, made us little jewelry gifts, here are my little flower bobby pins! Love them.

Shannon made these precious little tea cup candles! So cute and they smell wonderful! You'll have to click on all of their names, because I'm sure they will explain how on their blogs :)
Cory made a jar of bath salts, a jar of sugar scrub, and a bar of soap (not pictured) that has colored wool wrapped around it like a built in loofa. So creative! (The picture also has a little jar from Katie Howard from when she asked me to help in her wedding that I now use for q-tips)
Jen made these precious tote bags! Each has an initial with a doily design around it in the corner...so cute! I put all my treats in here :) She has a precious picture of all us girls carrying our totes, visit her blog, i bet she'll put it up there :)
Here are all the girls :) It was a fun day. Rachel and I felt pretty sick, but other than that it was wonderful to get to spend the day with good friends. Especially Shannon and Cory who don't live here!