Handmade Holidays?

I promise I have a real excuse for the lack of blogging. I've been having major technical issues. First off, a few weeks ago iphoto deleted all my photos. After an hour of crying I found them , but will still have to reorganized them all, YIKES. Now we are trying to figure out what is eating up all the memory on our computer, so I can download new photo's. It's been a bit of a nightmare. I'm currently using my hubbies laptop but it takes FOREVER to download pictures into blogger.  I'm crossing my fingers and hoping this will all get sorted out sooner than later. 

  

For anyone that's been following for over a year knows how important homemade gifts for the holidays  are to me. Making things for those I love is what makes Christmas meaningful. Nothing gets me into the Christmas spirit like creating the perfect gifts for my family. 

Unfortunately, my family and I had abnormally busy November and December this year, and weren't able to be as ambitious we have been in the past. My next few posts will show the few things I was able to pull together before Christmas.

Like most Americans, our family follows the tradition of opening new pajama's on Christmas Eve. My Mother almost always made ours for us, something I never thought I would do. But, in a moment of frustration I committed myself to sewing PJ's for all my girls. I don't understand why it is so hard to find PJ's that are Christmas colors but not overtly Christmas themed. I want something festive but can be worn for months after the big day.

Luckily I stopeed myself from my big plans of sewing tops for my older girls. Instead they got a full set for their dolls (simplicity 4268).

I love how the full set turned out for my little thing. My favorite part is the piping and ruffle at the bottom. 

 I'm proud of the top. I made up my own pattern and can't even remember how I did it. 

I had just enough material left to make me a pair of bottoms as well.

Hope your holidays were as joyous as ours!