Chalkboard vinyl Door Decorations

 I made door decorations using my Silhouette Cameo and chalkboard vinyl. Try and look past my horrible handwriting  It's very hard to write when it's already up on the door and I just have no talent when it comes to writing:) I need to redo it. I used a chalk pen and it held up very well in a storm we had the other night. one of the gingys ran just a tiny bit. just barely.  I made the scary wreath (from the movie Nightmare Before Christmas) back in 2002 I think.  I love the banner because I can erase it and write something new like Happy Easter! Or GO AWAY! I made the gingy by tracing the pattern (to make the ornament) in the Silhouette Software.

I love Instagram pictures. I truly believe they can make anything pretty. These were taken the night before I flew to Japan, in our hotel.

Keep Calm and Eat a Cookie

Our Christmas cards. I got the idea to make it after playing around here. And here is a brief explanation of What "Keep Calm and Carry on" is. I sent Kelly the Half Eaten Gingy pattern from Elsie Marley and she made it into what you see above. I ordered them from Snapfish. Thank you for your help Kelly!

 

I guess the above inside message is not funny if you don't know Ava.

Basically you are being wished a badly-behaved Christmas:)

Last night was Jon's unit Christmas party were two lovely ladies cut in front of us in the Santa line. Not by accident either. They just walked up and got between me and the next person. No I didn't say a thing for reasons I don't want to get into but I was so pissed off I wanted to leave right then and there. All I could think of was "welcome to schweinfurt!". I know there are mean people everywhere but it was my first unit function, my first time around his work people.

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Emily borrowed that dress from her friend Cheyenne.

Doesn't Santa look seriously retarded? Look at his eyes..

Hello Gingy

12 more Half Eaten Gingerbread men. These things take forever to make!

I have my priorities straight when it comes to unpacking.
My sewing room comes 1st .

I made curtains for both bathrooms out of old Ikea curtains. I can see now that i didn't quite cover the window. Anyway, we have somewhat frosted glass in each bathroom but you can still see very well through them if you are outside! We also have rolladens but I like a lot of light so those only go down at night. When researching rolladens, I came across some interesting comments and facts on them (more Germans have rolladens than driver's license. they were developed during world war 2. ) . If you don't know what they are , google them. They NEED to catch on in America! From what I could tell, some places do have them but not many. They are not only a form of security, they can completely block out light and in the summer can make your house cooler. We could have used these when Jon worked 3rd shift before we married. I think 99.9999% of all apartments and houses have these on the windows. I have seen some ghetto looking apartments with rolladens. It's just standard here like closest are in America! I think about doing a post on the comparisons all the time. Germans have some cool things going on here but also some not so cool things like no closets and renting an apartment WITHOUT a kitchen. What?
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I realize that a post on the comparisons will probably only interest me (along with the huge paragraph above on rolladens).

When we visited the states, the only people who asked us about living here and seemed to want to hear about what it's like here were people who had visited Europe. Otherwise we got bored looks when we'd say, "did you know, that in Germany...." and I'm sure they thought we were bragging that we live in Europe.

Anyone else have this problem when they visit home?

And one of my awesome handmade going away gifts! Kara made this for me out of some of my favorite fabrics. I.LOVE.THIS. Notice the mushroom zipper pull?

I have more cool going away/birthday gifts to posts. Fun things!