After spending the better part of, say, my entire holiday in bed with some sort of evil cold/flu/plague hybrid, I managed to cut out all the letters for the tags that I needed. I then combined the tags with the two specialty papers: Add in a bit of Washi tape, brown packing paper, and red […]
Monthly Archives: December 2012
On my continued determination to really nail my Christmas wrapping this year, I came across this idea on pinterest. The wrapping was similiar to what I had already done for the Christmas wrapping, but I thought that the letters would be a great simple way to tag my Christmas wrapping once I got over the […]
I get to have two Christmases each year- an English one with Paul and friends in England, and then an American one in the States with my family. I love for all my gifts to be wrapped in a cohesive theme but this inevitably leads to me flying from country to country with wrapping paper, […]
In England it’s apparently not customary to tell people who had you for secret Santa after you open gifts. I must say, I find this tradition very odd. I’m 98% sure that my colleague Jo knows I had her, as being the only remote member of the office, I had to mail in the package […]
This year I decided to hand paint all my Christmas cards. This was very time consuming, but an interesting exercise in replicating the same design over and over whilst trying to get the same outcome. First, some sketches to get started. Then, drawing the design, over and over again. Adding some colour, using red acrylic […]
