I was working on my place mats this morning. The first one turned out…the second one was a failure. The contact paper on the front buckled and I ended up with a U shaped place mat.

I need to punch some more squares since several got ruined when I peeled back the buckled contact paper.

I’m not giving up…I will make at least 4 of these so we’ll each have one for the holiday season.

I’ve been holding my little girl. She has had the sniffles for about 2 weeks but took a turn for the worse on Christmas Day. Yesterday I took her to the doctor after she spent most of the night “barking”. She has croup and a sinus infection. Poor little thing. We’re hoping she’s well by Tuesday which is her 6th birthday!

Today I’ve started punching out squares from old Christmas cards. I saw this blog post on creating placemats from old cards and pictures of family and friends. I have a several shoe boxes of old cards that will fit the bill. I think I’ll use clear contact paper instead of bringing them to Kinkos though, especially since I happen to have some laying around.