Look what Nae Made!

This afternoon, Jon and I drove down to south Seattle to pick up the girls for the weekend. Their mother has finals all week next week, and we wanted to spend some time together before the holidays. I wanted to have Mom come too, but she needs some time to study for her finals. She was very excited because someone had given her a Christmas tree and some ornaments to use this year.

BUT

In an almost overlooked statement said to one of the girls, there are no Christmas stockings.

Correction

There were no stockings.

After we put the little girls to bed, Nae and "Auntie" went to work.

We traced one of the boys stockings.

Onto felt. The felt was bags I used when wrapping my Princess House products up for traveling to and from parties,

Not getting any bookings for parties,

I don't need the bags as much as the girls need stockings.

(and coats, and socks, and jammies, and jeans, and...)

Having already spent my budget buying  a few of the above mentioned necessities, I needed to use what I had.

I asked Nae if she had ever used a sewing machine, and she said no.

So I asked if she wanted to. She said yes.

I walked her through the steps of sewing  the stockings together, and she did a really good job. Only one place I am going to have her go back and fix in the morning. But for never having used a machine before, she was a PRO!

(look how closely she is watching her stitches.)

And Her finished product. We sewed a hanger on it with a wide zigzag stitch, then using the same stitch, sewed an ornament I had gotten at the dollar store to attach to presents.

Isn't she beautiful? Her 13th Birthday is two days after Christmas, so Auntie has to find a special something for that too!

After Nae went to bed, Auntie whipped these other two up.

For the little sisters.

Mommy needs one too, but I am going to let the little girls "help" with that.

I have found that one of the best ways to combat my seasonal depression is to think of the needs of others,

It doesn't have to be as grand as making an entire Christmas for another family, but just looking to the needs of others and not thinking about what I may or may not "need" has made me much happier this year.

AND

Even though they have so little, their mommy is doing the same thing by working a blanket drive for the homeless in her area.

I am going to go wash some of our extra blankets now.

I LOVE CHRISTMAS!

( I just read this post and was feeling so smug about my accomplishment. Right up to that last picture. See it?)

Now you don't have to tell me my mistake in the comments. Just tell Nae what a terrific job she did!