The year of felt

This year I decided to make felt ornaments as gifts for the kids advent calendar surprises as well as one for each of my family members.  I love looking for good designs and coming up with a pattern I think each person would like. 

So fun! 

Here are the completed projects...

Top: a pincushion for Lara

2nd row: holly for Heidi, a cat for Everly, a snowbird for Kaira, winter trees for Joe and Jean, Pusheen for Bri, a fox for Jordan, a chickadee for mom

3rd row: cubs logo for Mark, flag for Ethan, scared gingerbread man for Mathew, snowflake for Megan, grey wolf for Laney and deer for Anna.  

AWWW YEAHHH....It's advent time!

Shall we begin?

Yes we shall.

It is December and that means advent calendar time.

 My FAVORITE!!!

And because it's my party and I am the boss of the Hufford Universe (with my co-boss, Mark, of course)....we start with my FAVORITE of the FAVORITE....

The ornaments.

This post feels kinda deja vu-ee. Almost like I wrote this already.

Weird.

Anyway....we completed the preliminaries...dinner, cleaning up, vacuuming around the tree, other chores that struck our fancy.

And then we gathered for the distribution of ornaments.

Is there anything more attractive than a great dad with a sweet baby in his arms?

Mark helped hand out the fragile ones and corralled the baby. No small feat.

I'll bet good money that Anna doesn't have any pants on.

It's tradition!

There was alot of grabbing and jumping off of piano benches.

There was quite a bit of anxiety over each child getting to hang those personal ornaments...

But when all was said and done, even though I felt like this:

When I sat back and crossed my eyes,

It was beautiful.

Decorating the tree.

It's my favorite favorite.