Live Nativity

Our church is putting on its second live nativity (December 4 & 5) and I'm the costume coordinator again.  A group of us work on the costumes and those days have been teasingly dubbed the Grace Fellowship sweat shop ;-)

(You can see a hint of the costumes to the left but that's only about 1/4 of them)

There are 80 volunteers involved this year and they aren't just from our church.  Wow!

Its fun and exhausting but so worth every minute of it.  Especially when you hear how much it blesses people and reminds them why they celebrate Christmas to begin with.

To all the volunteers..........THANK YOU!!!

What characters are my family this year?  Noelle is Mary, Kyle is a shepherd, Kirk is a wise man, and I'm a villager (so I can help where needed and take pictures :-)  Hopefully, I'll get us together (in costume) for our family Christmas photo.  Some of the families did this last year and the pictures were great!

I am taking off today through Saturday to focus on Thanksgiving and enjoying my family (and hopefully finish my wrist warmers, lol).  I just wanted to share while I had a few minutes.

Crafting Links

I've recently made two handcrafted birthday greeting cards using my computer, printer, and scrapbooking supplies.  They were made pretty last minute so there's no picture to share.  I used a template I printed off the internet for the envelopes but forgot to save it to my hard drive.  I went in search of said template (I found it at Mirkwood Designs ) but kept looking for ideas.  In the process I stumbled upon the website Craftbits.com  I've already got some great ideas for Christmas from there.