Merry Christmas!!!

Faith makes all things possible,
Hope makes all things work,
Love makes all things beautiful,

May you have all the three for this Christmas.

Calendar 2013

And I made a Calender version of my Coin Purse Design.

 -- and I am giving these (12 PNG Files) as an early Christmas Gift.

Just go to my FB page (and please LIKE my page) 

and send me a message from there.

Happy Holidays Everyone!!!

Felt Nativity Set Pattern Free Download

I know it's not yet Christmas, hehehe.

It is still February!

But I am posting this giveaway, as this has been long overdue.

I made a Felt Nativity Set last December

http://whatmadeleineloves.blogspot.com/2011/12/felt-nativity.html

and I promised to give a pattern for this set.

I apologize for it took me so long to do this.

But anyways, here it is!

Download the PDF File here:

PDF - FELT NATIVITY SET PATTERN 

Print in A4 paper with no scaling.

To check, length of the biggest felt is about 5 3/4 inches long.

You can amend the color, or do whatever you want.

I wish to see your version. 

So if you made a set, please put a link of your photo on the comment box below.

Again THANK YOU to that somebody who made the original felt nativity. 

You inspired me to do this.

I really can't find who made this. I just saw it on Flickr.

Christmas Greetings

Credits:

 - Paper and Elements - 

Merry Christmas Kit 

Thaty Borges

http://thatyborges.com.br/blog/

- Red Paper - 

Secret Stash

http://www.secretstashdesigns.com/

Felt Nativity

Christmas is not complete without the Nativity scene.

It is a reminder of the reason why we celebrate Christmas.

We have ceramic figurines before but I don't know where it is now, or I guess I had thrown it away.

So I have to have a new one and I decided I would make one instead of buying it.

I was looking for a nativity design that I could hang up in our mini Christmas tree. Hanging it will save me some space and will serve as a tree ornament as well.  

I found this in Flickr. I find it so simple, clean and cute.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/colophondesign/4198287677/sizes/z/in/photostream/

I made my own pattern, and used felt as fabric. 

To complete my Nativity Scene characters, I designed  the Three Kings and  the Shepherd and the Sheep. 

I wanted to share to you a tutorial, but I did not take photos while I was doing these.

 It's hard for me to put the process into words, photos would have been easier. 

( I took one photo only during the assembly of the parts.)

But if you want a pattern, just simply leave a comment and I will send you one.

Have a Very Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

U P D A T E 

Please visit my other post for Free Download of The Felt Nativity Pattern.
Click this link:

http://whatmadeleineloves.blogspot.com/2012/02/felt-nativity-set-pattern-free-download.html

Christmas Stockings

It's December , It's this time of the year again...Christmas time.

Oh how I love Christmas time!

- beautiful decors, bright lights, Christmas jingles, gift giving, yummy food, reunion and merry making -

What warms my heart every Christmas time is I see that everybody is so happy, kids and kids alike too, hehehe.  When we were still young, it was even more fun. Aside from the fact that what we all do during the holidays was just play, eat and open gifts, we do have some traditions that we do believe & practiced, even until we were almost in high school.  We believe in Santa Claus! And if we will be good boys and girls , we will receive the gift we are wishing for.

We hang our our normal socks in our balcony every Christmas eve. Then in the Christmas morning, we rushed to our socks and delighted to see our candy filled socks and underneath it is our gift from Santa Claus. What such joy that fills our hearts every Christmas morning.

How does Santa Clause knows what are we wishing for? Well, We write to him, hehehe. We tell him what we have been doing and what we want for Christmas.  

Sadly, it all ended (the hanging of the socks)  when we figured out it was not Santa Claus who was giving us gifts. It was our Papa, Mama and Aunties. How did we figure it out? We did not peek, hehehe. We just found one of our letters to Santa Claus, which they forgot to keep.

But it did not break our hearts and it did not stop us in believing that there is Santa Claus. It even made us realize that Santa Claus is within each of us. It is when we SHARE THE JOY to everyone we love during this season as we celebrate  the Birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

So when we had our first baby in the family, I made a special stocking for him to hang (not his socks, hehehe) and continue on with the tradition, and this time it will be us who will pretend to be Santa. 

I also made stockings for my friends's kids and the last I did was for my Zee, a very special Santa Stocking.

I got my pattern from McCall's. Step by step instructions is also include in the file. You just have to sign up for their e-newsletter, to download all their free patterns. Visit McCall's site HERE.

Why not make one for your kid too. You still have time.

Credit:
For Paper and Elements - Holiday Mini Kit Freebie
by: Simply Scraps by Laura Banasiak

Happy Holiday Sewing!!!