January 9

Birthday Preparations are underway. I spent the day yesterday working on N's birthday crown. There were many MANY requests for details on the crown--a felt horse, some flowers, a baby chick, etc... I was pretty worried that the final product would disappoint because it was clearly not going to live up to all of the recipient's demands. Initially, it was not well-received--she had too many people expecting her to love it standing around. So I quietly put it on an out of the way table. Sure enough, the soon to be birthday girl appeared wearing it and she has had it on since then.

I used 100% wool felt from A Child's Dream Come True and a pattern from The Creative Family to make it. I am an embroidery novice so the flowers came out looking a little more like stars, but she seems to like them. Finally, I covered the elastic with some leftover Christmas ribbon. One birthday project down, too many more to go.