The Past Month = BUSY!

I know I’ve been really bad at keeping things updated over here for the past month or so! For the handful of you who might really care, I do apologize! 😉 But I promise I have a good reason!

Leading up to Christmas, I was super busy with several Christmas card projects that all turned out to be really fun! Here are a few pictures and a little bit about them!

{ 1 } I ended up having the opportunity to make a lot of these fun cards, which I’ve blogged about before, for several dear customers, so that was great!

{ 2 } I also got to get Christmassy with the birdies for a little special order for a sweet friend! Here’s a quick shot:

Then I had two really fun (and pretty challenging) big orders that ended up being the defining projects of the Christmas 2012 season for me!

{ 3 } The first one was for my mama: over 200 plaid scotties, mounted and finished off with little red ties around their necks!

When mounted onto ice gold cards, these little guys ended up looking very handsome!

{ 4 } And the other big project that turned out to be equally as fun was designed to house a really sweet family’s Christmas picture. They were able to slide their picture into the “frame” on each card. This was the first time I’d ever made something like this, but now that I know what I’m doing, I’d be happy to do it again! 🙂

So with getting all of these cards done, Christmas shopping, taking a couple of quick trips, and working the other jobs I have, it was a really busy month! As sad as I am that Christmas is over, I am glad to get back into a somewhat normal routine.

One last thing to leave you with– As I was moping about Christmas being over, my hubby reminded me of one of my favorite quotes, so I’ll share it with you in case I’m not the only one with the post-Christmas blues! It’s from A Christmas Carol:

I think this is such a wonderful reminder! Now if only I could only remember it more often…

Have a good week! 🙂