Category: shopping

Just thought I’d give a brief update since I haven’t posted much lately. With my self-induced stress over both kids’ birthdays and Christmas in the same month, I didn’t even try to make gifts this year. But I managed to clean my house, have family over and even got a few holiday cards mailed, so it was all fine. This time of year I’m frequently reminded of our excesses in both food and goods consumption, but I just roll with the traditions while griping about how disgusting it all is. As you can tell, I’m loads of fun during the holidays!

Anyway, I did buy a few handmade gifts, so thought I’d share.

Santa brought this adorable tic-tac-toe stamp set made by Yellow Owl Workshop for my older daughter and the little tiger purse from Giddy Giddy. I featured both of these in an earlier post.

Plus I ordered my nine-year-old the Harry Potter birthday card below from Sophie Wilson Design, since Harry Potter is the kids’ latest obsession. For my younger daughter’s birthday, we gave her a sweet locket necklace like the one below from Nest Pretty Things Kids.

Of course Legos and Barbie were the main events for the kids this year. I’m dealing with it. I even made one of those strange Barbie cakes with the Barbie torso sticking out of the “skirt” cake, and man, my kid loved it. But I totally agree with this kid about pink stuff. Of course toys were gender specific when I was a kid, but it wasn’t this bad (the Barbie camper was yellow, after all). And although I have been wanting more female characters in Legos, I’m not thrilled about these little skinny-legged dolls. I expected more creativity from Lego.

Moving on…I also bought pretty bowls from Whitney Smith for both my mother and mother-in-law and sent some of these salt samplers from Salt Farm to relatives.

Tomorrow I’ll share some of the handmade gifts that I received. How about you? Did you make or buy your gifts this year?