Is it possible to fail at being a blogger after only two blogs? :) I may have made history here.
Initially the no buying adventure went great. It felt great to not buy coffee, clothing, or all the Christmas related crap that gets pushed at you during the holidays. Has Christmas always been so commercial? Or have I just never stepped back from the consumerism of it all? It was so relaxing to breathe and just enjoy being with family and friends during the holidays.
But of course there was the crazy rush of sewing gifts for children this year. I have a very large family :) this year my immediate family decided to draw names so that we each 'purchased' one gift for an adult, and then gifts for young children. Why have we not done this before?! The stress of the holiday was gone. We drew names early on and it made a major difference in our holiday and how we spent the days leading up to Christmas, no waiting in lines at stores, and no stress about the prices of gifts, as we had set a price limit. I sewed some beautiful placemats for my sister in law. They are reverse appliqué, which I will never, ever do again, that is an extremely beautiful, tedious and difficult sewing technique. I still have to finish the binding on those.
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