Christmas With the Fudge Family 2012

Office Christmas Party!

When I started working at USC Salkehatchie, committees were already chosen, but I really wanted to help with one of them. My good friend Katina was on the Christmas committee so I thought "yay! I can help her with Christmas stuff. I'm good at creative things." So I volunteered and it was so much fun! I was in charge of crafts and the "photo booth". We had a great time. Here are some pictures from last night. 

The Christmas Tree and appetizers

Our purdy centerpieces

Mike and Harriet and Joey and Leslie making ornaments in the Craft room

Holiday Photo Booth Fun!

LOL

Me & Carmen

Me, Amanda, Carmen, Hattie, and Georgeanne

Me & Katina

Craftaholics Handmade Craft Exchange Winter 2012

Everyone's stomachs are full of turkey, Christmas lights are going up, Christmas trees are getting strapped to the cars, bells are ringing in front of stores, all the radio stations are playing Christmas songs, and it's not even December yet. This can only mean one thing! It's time for the Craftaholics Anonymous Winter Handmade Gift Exchange! YAY! This year I was paired with Jacquelyn from North Dakota. I asked a lot of questions through Elfster to get to know her a little better and thankfully she responded to all of them. That really helped me get all my ducks in a row for her special gift. She told me that "I'm a movie watcher! I love a good book but with two kids, I normally have to wait for the movie!" So I thought it was be really cool to give her a bag full of goodies for a family movie/ game night! Here are some pictures of all the goodies that she and her family get to enjoy this holiday season! 

Fruit Roll-ups, Gourmet Popcorn, Popcorn boxes, milky way minis, hot chocolate, bookmarks, hair pins, a dice game (found in online here), and a super cute feather ornament to go on their Christmas tree.

Close up of the ornament, I LOVE how they turned out!

Close up of the movie night bag!

So there you go! I hope you LOVE everything Jacquelyn! I had so much fun making this for you. 

Have a Happy Holiday!

Christmas at Biltmore

This weekend we went to Biltmore in Asheville, NC to go to their candlelight tour. It was so pretty! I LOVED all the Christmas trees. It makes me want to put up all of my decorations now. I got so many good ideas. This theme for Christmas at Biltmore this year was : the decorators would pick a painting in each room and then decorate the Christmas tree based on that painting. For example: in one room there is an awesome painting of a ship so the Christmas tree had a nautical theme. It was so awesome.

Me and Jeremy acting silly in the car

Beautiful picture of the mountains

Elizabeth Woodard, Mama Fudge, and Mama

Me, Elizabeth and Mama Fudge

Here we are at dinner.

We had dinner at the Biltmore Inn Dining Room. I had the Frisée & Endive Salad with local goat cheese, toasted walnuts, poached apple, blush vinaigrette; Sunburst Farms Trout with blue grits, crawfish, Tasso gravy, crisp okra; and Sweet Potato Crème Brulée with Candied Bacon, Toasted Marshmallow Ice Cream and Biscotti. Jeremy had the same entree but had Pan Roasted Crab Cake with saffron couscous and cioppino broth as an appetizer and he had Caramelized White Chocolate Pâté with peppermint caramel, macadamia nougatine and bittersweet chocolate ice cream for dessert. It was all amazing.

This was the only Christmas tree we could take a picture of. Unfortunately no photography in the house.

Yay Christmas Elves!

We also want to congratulate our good friends Amy and Di  and 

wish them a happy wonderful marriage!

Craft Weekend with Mom

Mom and I had a crafty Saturday this weekend and it was so much fun! Here are some of the highlights of what we did: 

First we did a little shopping and had to go and model some Halloween Hats.   

Then we came back to Mom's house and to her NEW and AWESOME craft room to get to work!

She has so much more space for all her supplies! So jealous

She's so happy with her new room!

Our first project came from the "Artful Halloween" book by Susan Wasinger.She has this awesome tutorial on how to make spiders out of buttons and wire. They are going to be perfect for Halloween!

My Spiders

Mom's Spiders

Ahhhhhhh! There's a Spider on me!!!

After the Halloween Decorations we turned to Christmas.This idea came out of the "Holiday Crafts" Magazine we picked up at our local bookstore.

Here is the picture out of the magazine.

Here are Mom's creations. Aren't they adorable????

I Love our craft weekends! I can't wait till the next one! And yes we are such dorks... not only did we spend an entire Saturday crafting and goofing around but we watched awesomely bad "b" horror movies while we did it! Our movie marathon included: My Name is Bruce, Love at First Bite and Monster Squad. It was great!! I LOVE my Mother so much!!!!!!