Christmas Crochet

This is my second lacy Christmas scarf. The other is a lovely metallic silver and grey. Working with a finer yarn is refreshing after several years if worsted weight yarn. I want one...

JOY!

These are some wooden blocks about 3" x 3" which used to read "N. O. E. L" and had a 1980's dated look. I was ready to toss them out and then it struck me that it would be easier to paint over them and give them a fresh look. Aubrey covered them with a couple coats of acrylic paint while I dug around in my scrapbook paper. I settled on these four patterns and glued them onto one side. I then used Micrsoft Word to create some letters in a font that I liked. I opted to print them in their outline only, since I wanted to ink them in with fine tip Sharpie. This was so they wouldn't bleed when I glued and applied a clear finish. I cut the letters out and there you have it! The final clear coat makes the blocks look very nicely finished. This was a quick fun little project and I think I just may keep them in my window sill year round.