A Homemade Christmas

We love Christmas so much at our house!  I am posting pictures of things we made for Christmas.  

Two sets of stockings, made over many years (and sometimes tears!)

Christmas pillow cases, thanks to my sister Sara for instructions.

I gave these sacks to my Cub Scouts to carry their scout books to my house each week.

Rosie gave these zebra print scarves to her friends, she has many friends
and my fingers were sore after cutting and fringing.

We made dozens and dozens of sugar cookies to take to neighbors and teachers.
I had to relinquish creative control and let Rosie mix and match the sprinkles.

We cut, punch and tied ribbons on our Christmas cards,
I admit this took much longer than I thought.

The kids and Jen F. decorated Santa's sleighs instead of gingerbread houses this year.
They turned out very cute!

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When Jono was growing up, his family had a Hawaiian Nativity that they put out every Christmas.  We have been searching for a Hawaiian Nativity for our family for years, just like the one they had.  Our search turned up only made-in-China nativities, not the authentic one we wanted.  Last December, a few weeks before Christmas, I found an identical set to the one Jono had on eBay.  We bid on it and won.

It came a week later and is so perfect!  It was very old, but had never been opened.  It had a type-written description of the native materials used for each piece and was hand-made.  It was so exciting to find and will be a treasure for our family for years to come.

 Here are the rest of our Christmas decorations: