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Merry Christmas! I just finished up an insane month at work, and I’m on vacation until NEXT YEAR! 🙂 We’re taking advantage of the time off from work and flying out to North Carolina for Lindy Focus, which is one of the (if not THE) biggest swing events in the US. It’s the first time Chris and I  have been to this event, and will be our first time on the East Coast together. I’m going to *try* to blog while I’m there, but if I don’t you’ll know it’s because I’m running around having fun!
Because we’re going out of town we didn’t decorate at home this year, but we’ve gone to a couple Christmas parties. I wore a new me-made Beignet skirt to a Gingerbread House party last Sunday, but I’m a bad blogger and didn’t take any photos of it. But here’s our sugary creation – every team gets the same basic house kit and creates a different scene. We got 3rd place with our “Broadmoor Abbey”, mostly because Chris invented a ridiculous story about the Stonehenge-esque light bouncing through the stone windows. It sure wasn’t the Gummi Bear statuary that won!

Wednesday night was my office Holiday party – there was an office decorating contest, and I wanted to share some cute creations we made. Not award-winning, but pretty fun for a couple hours with wrapping paper! If you want that giant measuring tape behind me, it’s available as a printable download here.

We did NOT make the Hot Dog cut-out – that came with the sliders food station, but I thought it was pretty exciting. I’m pretty sure I’m the only one at the party who used it.
And the obligatory photo-booth pics!
Happy Holidays – I’ll see you soon!

Getting a little Christmas spirit…

Last weekend we headed out to Chris’s office party, and I decided to wear the sparkly white lace dress I recently got from Banana Republic (part of their “Mad Men” line, but it’s only vaguely 60’s…but I liked it, so moving on.) It’s pretty but rather plain in solid white, so I decided to make a bow belt to dress it up. I wanted to look like a present, all wrapped up! I think it worked. 🙂

I used Tilly’s Bow Belt Tutorial to make this – the only change I made was to fold the corners of the belt so that the ends were skinnier behind the bow. If I make another one, I’ll miter the corners before sewing, because folding them back is a bit too thick. I was planning to make a hair bow at the same time, but the bow was a little to large for my pin-head. Just need to scale it down a little! So I wore a poinsettia in my hair, instead.

Chris wore a 1930’s 3-piece suit to the party – he wears a modern suit every day for work, so he wanted to dress up extra so that the party felt special. I was expecting him to be heckled for wearing weird old clothes 😉 but I’m not sure anyone even realized it wasn’t modern. Classic styles last forever!