It's only August (ok, almost September), but Nellie and I are showing off some of the goodies we'll have for Christmas. We've always had our own Christmas tree, and this year we asked for some new ornaments for it.
As it turns out, the little mini books our human makes are also the perfect size for little Christmas ornaments. Instead of stapling the mini books, just punch holes in the spine and run embroidery floss through it to tie the book together. Then just run a little bit of ribbon through the loop made by the floss, and voila, instant ornament! As an added bonus, the books are perfectly readable and sized for us.
We have 8 different little Christmas themed books for ornaments, including 'A Christmas Carol' and 'The Night Before Christmas'. Everything is from the mid to late 1800s, so there's a *lot* of moralizing in some of the picture books.
If you like these mini books/ornaments, you can find them for sale
here.
And for this month's edition of 'The Human Is Not Allowed Near the Clearance Rack at Joann's'. We're not quite sure what the human was thinking when she made these, but I actually like the lightbulb tshirt. Or course, some of the others do have the wonderful feel of 'ugly Christmas sweater', only in our case, it's 'ugly Christmas T Shirt'.
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| This isn't too bad... |
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| and this is cute...sort of... |
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| OK, human, this might be excessive. |
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| Did you have to use stripes? |
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| What did we ever do to you to deserve this? |
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| This might be tolerable. Might. |
We get cool toys and books. In exchange, we put up with the indignity of aggressively seasonal clothing. And the human is still eyeing the Halloween fabric with unholy glee. We can only hope that the human is too busy to act on those desires come October. (She has been threatening us with Halloween clothes for 3 years running, and we've been safe so far...)
Haha! Love this post. Btw, I think the outfits are adorable, even though the girls are obviously mortified by some of them. Lol.
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