Here are some pictures of the past couple of  Christmasy weeks ...

Our first fire of the Christmas season

Setting up the Christmas tree

Mom and I with the Christmas tree

decorating cupcakes for Darius' B-day

Making apple cider and pumpkin bread

The Christmas carousel that we rode on Darius' Birthday

On a boxing day walk

I know it has been a looong time since my last post, so today's is going to be super good :)
It is just two weeks till Christmas, I can't wait!  We haven't set up the Christmas tree yet, but have been doing other Christmas decorating, baking etc. to get ready for Christmas!  Here are some of the things I have done:

• I have 'snow' on my google chrome browser!  If you use google chrome and want it to snow, go to this link.

• I also have this Christmas desktop background from Geninne's Art blog

• My brother and I attempted (they failed) to make Star Wars snowflakes from this website

• And I have Christmas lights on the curtains above my bed

Some of my favourite Christmas pinterest pins are:

cupcakes

Christmas light nails

I am so like this

Star Wars snowflake picture from the website

I am going to try to post more pictures when we set up the Christmas tree, so watch for part two of this post :)

This summer I have been working on lots of different crafts.  My main focus though has been on my paper fashions.  I have made many cards this year that feature an outfit that was made by (guess who) me! Now I am making notebooks with outfits on them...  I made a couple for gifts for my cousin and my best friend,  and now I have started an etsy shop!  On my etsy shop I am selling my notebooks and I will probably sell some cards too!  My shop is called Paper Couture and it's in my mom's name (because until I am 18 I cannot have my own shop,) but don't get confused!  The shop is really mine :) Here is a link to my shop, check it out!

Some of my outfits that I made to keep

A card I made for my homeroom teacher at the end of the school year

A birthday card I made for my cousin

A birthday card I made for my other cousin

A birthday card I made for my great grandma

A wedding card I made for some friends

This was my first notebook that I made for my cousin

This is a notebook I made for my best friend

.... and here is my first etsy listing!

This one will be on my shop very soon!

Hey!
Last Thursday I finished crocheting a Perry the platypus for Darius!  Darius loves this disney TV show called Phineas and Ferb. Perry is Phineas and Ferb`s pet  blue platypus who is also a secret agent. I had a really fun time making this project and Darius loves him! Here is a link to my ravelry page.

This last weekend I went with my youth group to the Greek Christian camp called Kalamos. I had a really fun time and made some new friends :)  The location of the camp is beautiful! On Saturday once we got there we played hide and go seek in the forest.  It was kinda wet and cold but it was so much fun! That night after supper and our lesson we all watched two movies!  The only problem with that was we stayed up 'till two in the morning, so I was tired the next day!

This is me and my friends at Kalamos in the summer

Hey sorry I haven't posted in a while..  Well I want to wish you all a Happy New Year!! I hope you have an awesome year!!
Happy New year (again)
Kiara
P.s check out the Google homepage! :)

Today we decorated the Christmas tree!!  It was so much fun!  Now I feel like it's getting close to Christmas!  I plan to wrap some presents to put under the tree now :).  Here are some pictures of before and after, enjoy!

Before tree

After tree

Sweet huh :)

Work in progress

Decorating

More decorating

Darius wishes you 'Happy Decorating!'  (One of his favorite parts of Christmas)