Everyone knows my love of Halloween and horror related items, but they never get me anything in those categories. However, this year I did receive a Daryl Dixon bobble head.
I got a lot of girly stuff, boots, makeup, jewelry. A promise of a new recliner once I pick one out and a Keurig coffee maker so I can join the masses and become addicted to caffeine in the mornings.
As in other years I hand made everyone something. I usually make something and then I buy the girls in the family something girly and my husband buys the boys something manly. The bought gifts are usually all the same and not too expensive. This year I took pictures of family and transferred the black and white photo to a plank of Basswood using a gel medium. After that was done and I was happy with the picture (there was a lot of sanding and retransfering involved) I used my Versa Tool to burn either the word Love if it was a picture of a couple or the word Family if it was a picture of a group like I gave to my husbands grandmother which was of her and all her children, or a picture of my husband and I for his other grandmother, my mother and of course I had to keep one. I have never experimented with wood burning before but it really peaked my interest in it. At the time of making these gifts I was suffering with undiagnosed Carpel Tunnel in both hands and was in extreme pain. I was not able to do the wood burning as fancy as I had originally planned. Now that I am being treated it's something I may try out in more detail.
Thank You, Lord! (By the way, Santa is bringing monster themed LEGOS to the Grandson...can't imagine where he got that idea!)
