I'm A Happy Girl!

So lately I have been thinking about Christmas.  Mainly because I like to make stuff and do a semi-homemade Christmas.  This leads to me thinking of all these grand ideas, not starting until December and then being so flustered the week before Christmas that I don't enjoy any of it!

This year I am trying really hard for that to not be the case.  In fact I have already found gifts for my brother and my dad, major kudos to me since they are difficult to shop for.  My mom I have absolutely no idea of what to get or make or anything!  More pondering has to be done on that subject (Mom if your reading this and have any suggestions throw them my way please!).

My friends are typically the ones I make for, it's always fun making things and I can usually think of something.  Now trying not to repeat previous Christmas' stress induced crazy I have started browsing, finding patterns and gathering ideas.  I am slowly putting together a master list of people and presents and hope to start making them real soon!

This is where I become a happy girl.  I just placed an order with fabric.com for 2 of their 3 pound cotton assortment packages.  I wasn't intending to get 2 but when I saw free shipping over $35 I decided to get 2 (and some tulle to get me over $35) to take advantage of the free shipping since it would have been 7 bucks anyway.  I also found a coupon code so I only paid $29 and I can't wait to see what comes!!  It's a surprise and how many of those do you get in adult life?

Alexis over at Full of Knit enlightened me to these little 3 pound remnant gems and considering they say you get roughly 9 yards of fabric for $17 I would say that's a pretty good deal.  I think it'll be perfect for me since I am looking at making things like coasters, napkins and the like.  I can hardly contain my excitement for what I may find when I open that little brown box.  I want it to get here now!

Hopefully once this arrives I will be able to get crackin' on these gifts and be able to keep on track for my goal of not being all stressed out right before Christmas!  Wouldn't it be nice to actually enjoy the holiday?!