Christmas Tepees

I thought I would get at least THESE pictures up, since I have no idea when I'll get the rest of the Christmas pictures up. Hopefully by THIS Christmas :) We had a "homemade Christmas" this year, meaning that all of the gifts that we gave each other (yes, every member of the family gives to every other) for Christmas had to be homemade. This is our second homemade Christmas; our first was 2 years ago. We are having them every other year. It took more work this year to come up with ideas, since it seemed like we had used up all of them 2 years ago! But we thought hard, and got some very creative ideas! Like these tepees, for example. Mom made Holly and Collin each their own. They are surprisingly large! I fit in them. And you CAN make it bigger, just by using more fabric. Mom used a pink canvas for Holly's, brown for Collin's. Then she used "WonderUnder" to iron their names vertically above the door. They are SO cute! Holly and Collin use them a lot. They love to set them up in front of the T.V. when they watch a movie, or just plain play in them. I NEVER would have thought of making a Tepee! That shows how creative you can get!

The girl in the pictures is Sofia Fernandes, one of our friends. We were watching her over at our house just a couple weeks ago. She and Holly got out the Tepee, and I caught a picure. So, this is not an actual 'Christmas Picture'.