T is for Tree

T is for Tree (or why you shouldn't plan overly-complicated projects the week before Christmas).

Excitement is extremely high at our house right now, and Daddy is home for vacation. Also Beatrix is teething and non-stop fussy. I had thought of this fun sewing project, and it seemed so good in theory. We would draw little trees with the fabric markers, and then sew on buttons for ornaments. Then either put them in embroidery hoops (couldn't find any) or stuff them.

This is how it turned out. The girls who can color 10 pictures in a row, suddenly couldn't finish coloring one tree. As things devolved, we quickly ditched sewing on the buttons and got out the glue gun.


Then we realized that any sewing at all was probably a bad idea, and had the girls cut out their trees and we glued some felt on the back. Ella quickly seized the tree for her felt board. So what began as a cute hand-sewn ornament became a felt-board tree, but they turned out pretty cute anyway. Mabel's is the first tree and Ella's is the second.
 
Brent read the girls Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree by Robert Barry, The Christmas Tree Book by Carol North, and The Tale of Three Trees by Angela Elwell Hunt.