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.

Day 322 – An alternative to the traditional wreath, I added acrylic gems and a silver bow to a simple swag of pine and juniper branches.

Day 321 – Altered a 3XL short sleeve tshirt into a fitted mini dress. I used the parts I cut off to add extra long sleeves and the concentric rectangle detail.

Day 320 – Put up holiday decorations and filled the Advent calendar with handmade treat packages tied with blank “I wish…” tags. We started this tradition when Adin was 2, and it is fun to read wishes from years ago. (Not intended as a shopping list.) Sometimes she wished for world peace, in between wishes for more Barbies. This is Stella’s first year to participate. First wishes for 2012? Adin wishes for an Xbox. Stella wishes for a pink puppy dog and a brush.