Come on!  Sing a long!  LOL.

You know what’s funny?  I’m always the first one to get rared up for the holidays.  I mean, I was skipping along and shouting “BOO” on Sept 1st!  So is it any surprise I’m already humming Christmas Tunes?  Im sick of Halloween already, bring on the Jingle Bells!   I mean REALLY!  LOL

Anyway, I was googling around yesterday, and found a site called OrganizedChristmas.com

*clouds parted and Angels began to sing*  hehehe!

Holiday happiness at my fingertips!  I was so inspired by the articles, that I decided to get my own ho-ho on.

There are quite a few articles on organizers, so I wanted one.  Here’s a kind of walk thru for mine.  I didn’t have any Christmas paper to work with, so I decided to sew mine.

For supplies:
Material - Patterned
Material - Solid
Bone Folder
File Folder
Needle
Thread
Accessories like Ribbon and a button

Using a bone folder, score your file folder.  The way I did mine was open it up ALL THE WAY.  Lay it flat so its TALL.  How ever deep you want your pockets, is how far to the right you are going to score.  Fold on your score line and then rotate the folder so its WIDE not tall.  Then I scored each side from top to bottom, about halfway from the edge.

You will end up with something like this.

then I cut my  material.  For my inside piece I cut a piece 18 x 8 inches.  Then I laid that on my file and trimmed to fit the tabs.

For my outside, the piece I cut was 20 x 18.  I did not “shape” this one by trimming it because I wanted enough left to flap over the edges and hem it.

I pinned the material all in place, and then went to my sewing machine thinking this would be done in like 5 minutes.  UMM.  My machine did NOT like sewing this at ALL, and kept breaking the stupid thread!  It would go about a half an inch then WHAM!   lol.

I really wanted to give up, I mean really.  Hand sewing thru 4 layers of material and a file folder was NOT going to be fun.  But, my Christmas ho-ho was SCREAMING with mo-jo and I could NOT just let it go!

So I grabbed my needle and thread and went to work!  I started sewing just before House came on.  Sewed thru House.  Sewed through Fringe.  Sewed thru 2 shows about games on the sci-fi channel.  Sewed thru a crappy scary movie on Sci-fi channel about killer snake headed fish with teeth that could walk on land.  Uh…. oooooo-kkkkkaaaaayyyyyy…. LOL…

I FINALLY finished sewing around 1-ish I think!

I added some ribbon, held on with a big button to use as a TIE to keep it closed.

Then I printed some cute little lists I found on OrganizedChristmas.com  and FINALLY got to use my Crop-a-Dile!  woohoo!

and the finished project….

OMG!  CHECK THIS BLOG!

In hopping yesterday, one of my daily blogs had linked up this blog Grosgrain.  OMG, do I have a new idol?!  This lady is a self taught seamstress, and has GIVEAWAYS on her blog!  You dont even have to work for them, you just have to link to her posts, and she chooses a winner! 

These clothes are unbelievable!  I can NOT believe she is self taught!

DigiScrap Freebie

Speaking of give aways….
Today is Andrea’s day for the 31 days of treats on the DSO blog!  

You can get it on the DSO BLOG

Welp, I’m off to cook me some breakfast and get to work.  Lots going on “behind the scenes” at DSO!  Look for big changes coming!

~B

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