Charlie Brown Tree

I went up to Santa Cruz to visit Andrew this past weekend. It's so beautiful there, with all of the redwood forests and clean air! On Saturday, Andrew took me and his little brother Matthew, up the mountain to chop down a Christmas tree for his family! We ended up getting one at Tarr's Christmas Trees, and that's Mr. Tarr on the left.


Searching for the perfect tree.




We ended up cutting down a tiny tree, just like Charlie Brown :)

Christmas Ornament Cards

I know this sounds strange, but I love getting mail. I like handwritten letters and envelopes, stamps, and the stamps the USPS puts on my mail. My friend, Erica, likes getting mail even more than I do! She likes to save and collect her mail. For the past 3 years, she's been making and sending me Christmas cards. So this year, I remembered that I need to send her one too.


Ta da, handmade ornament greeting cards!

Catch Me if You Can

Yesterday was the third time I've hung out with Vy this week. This time, she came over to craft with me and attend Marcus Civins' (UCI grad student) performance art show at Sea and Space Explorations.

She spent the day working on handmade Christmas cards on the sewing machine.


And I spent the day making these half-eaten gingerbread man ornaments. Aren't their facial expressions hilarious?!

Fabric Yo- yos Cont.

Earlier this week, Vy and I went shopping for crafting supplies. She took me to this awesome fabric store in Costa Mesa that is going out of business, so they were selling huge rolls of fabric for as cheap as $3 a yard! It was an adventure climbing through all of those huge rolls, searching for the perfect fabrics. They kept on falling on us out of nowhere!


This is what I came out with, except for the black damask print, that one is from Joann's.


And after testing out different fabrics and sizes for my quilt, I pinned them to my newly thrifted and renewed inspiration board.

Patchwork

I met up with Vy and her sister Mai to go to the Patchwork Show in Long Beach yesterday. There was so much great handmade stuff there, but I didn't take any pictures because I didn't want the sellers to think I was stealing their ideas.


Vy looking at some vintage clothes.


After visiting the show, we went for some coffee at Portfolio and some vintage shopping. This store had a good selection of boots and renewed dresses.


We went inside this huge store that had all sorts of cool vintage things, like Danish furniture, jewelry, hats and hat boxes, phones, and typewriters, which I always like to look at. I found this aqua colored typewriter that has a dial for the letters, which I've never seen before. Too bad it didn't work, I would have loved to try it out.