Why I love Jams and Tams

First post! First post!

My love for my fellow craft ninjas has just burst into an explosion of awesomeness. Thanks for creating the blog and then surprising me with it girls. You rock.

I haven't had much time to make things recently because of school craziness. I was planning on doing an entirely handmade Christmas, only using supplies from my stash. Unfortunately, time was my enemy and my family was pretty lucky to get presents at all. Nonetheless, I am very proud of my creations and now my family and friends can get their Christmas presents later when I have more time to work on them. So, you know...in June.

These are Christmas ornaments I made for my dad. I had planned on making him something for his house since he won't buy things for himself, but he got something pretty instead. They're made out of some of my Gramma's old jewelry. I'm planning on making something similar for my sisters as well.

For my eldest sister and her husband, I painted something for their new apartment. I dissected a battered John Grisham novel (The Firm, for those of you who are interested) and pasted it to a canvas. The landscape is done in little tiny dots. Lots of them. Lotsa dots.

This was "commissioned" by my other elder sister and her husband. She wanted something for her house. I wasn't entirely happy with some of the technical work on it, but she seems happy so I'm not going to whine too much about it. The John Grisham pages make an appearance in this one as well. Are we sensing a theme?

Hopefully I'll get some sewing done in between schoolwork and the start of the semester. No promises, though.

Oh. And I made a pie.