I disappeared for awhile! I was just busy with family, the holidays, and life. You all know how it goes. We hosted my husband's family for Christmas Eve. There were 17 of us. That was a mere warm-up for the next day when we hosted my family. There were 57 of us. Here is a shot of the shoes.I have always wanted to take a shot of the shoes at our gatherings. This year my husband remembered to!
And here is where we had all of the tables set up for everyone to eat. Thank goodness I have a big open basement. We have been hosting gatherings for our families for years but this is the most we have ever entertained at once.
Everything went smoothly and we had a great time! This year was bittersweet. This will be our last year hosting. We are moving to Austin, Texas at the end of the school year. Every one of my nine brothers and sisters came with their spouses and a good number of my nieces and nephews and even great nieces and nephews came as well.
I have been doing some stamping. I just haven't had time to blog about it. I'm going to start you out with a card we made in stamp club this month. This first version uses washi tape for the banner. I saw this idea on Pinterest and it looked pretty easy.
It turns out it wasn't so easy. So I came up with a different version using the pennants punch. I just punched a smaller triangle at the end of the punch and layed them out side by side. I didn't even need to lay bakers twine across for them to hang from. This was much easier but still festive and cute!
Which one do you like the best?
I will be back over the next days posting the other projects I have been working on.
Thanks for stopping by today!
Kathleen
