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<\/a>Which got me to thinking…I needed a board\/organizational something or other for Christmas cards. And…still had this nice, long shutter sitting around…<\/p>\nThis time I pulled out the Christmas red spray paint…and divvied up the shutters so I had a present to send over to Birdie #2’s house and voila! Cool way to display all the cards I’m hoping to receive!<\/p>\n Yes. It is looking a little sparse so far, isn’t it? And one of those cards is OURS! I didn’t design\/craft our card this year. Something had to give, and these cards from Minted were so, so beautiful. Our photos totally fit into one, I ordered them and they have already been mailed. So worth the extra $ for some extra time! Except…I saved the $10 and 2 days extra time by not proofing it. Might have cut some words on the back of the card if I realized the font was going to be so tiny! Break out your spectacles if you want to read what we’ve been up to!<\/p>\n Anyhow, for these shutters I did use smaller clothespins and covered each of them with a bit of wasabi tape to make them just a little more festive.<\/p>\n Oh, Addie and I also made an advent calendar. Well, again…found a great download from Mr. Printables <\/a>\u00a0and then we added it to our frame. So it was sort of 1\/2 crafted by us. But we also made one for the other Voris household and the lil’ noodle’s first Christmas. So 1\/2 crafted x 2 = a full craft, right? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n We have a more crafts planned for the next few weeks. Might not get back to report on them, but we’ll be back soon. Happy last two weeks before Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whoa. Did you think I totally left you over here? Nah…just trying to keep up with life. We have been doing a little crafting and I haven’t posted a thing in a long, long while so I thought I’d throw … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n