Day 331 – Felted ball bell ornaments for my girls.

Day 330 – Busy day. Preparing samples and materials for crafting with 3rd graders, and boxing up handmade gifts, and making more wish tags for the advent calendar, and…
A day of checking off tasks is productive and rewarding, but not as creatively satisfying.

Day 329 – Lots of felted ball ornaments for the tree.

Day 328 – Working on different ideas for kid-friendly holiday crafts. These prototypes are 3D modern ornament trees based on a popup card design. The cuts can be made with scissors rather than requiring an Xacto knife. I might try making these out of fused plastic sheets. Stiff felt would be great too.

Day 327 – My daughters and I each made a felted ball with a bell inside. We were going to make ornaments but the store was all out of white, red, and green roving. Oh well, these are fun to juggle. We may add felt appliqués to each ball.

Day 326 – Punch, cut, paste, fold, etc. The factory is in full swing tonight after getting two sick kids off to bed.

Day 325 – An easy craft with the kids. We made a simple wreath ornament from fabric scraps threaded onto a piece of coat hanger wire.

Day 324 – Slightly altered the concept for our pop-up holiday card. We are ready for production. The factory (me) starts cranking tomorrow.

Day 323 – Blank concept for a pop-up holiday card.