Made with Love...

Handmade Christmas gifts have all been given~

Now I can share a peek with you!

Had these light weight wooden boxes.

Knew they would come in handy someday...

Alaina and I took a black Friday road trip!

With so many stores opening in the wee hours~

We decided to skip our 5am dash for treasures and go sight seeing!

We headed toward Ithaca, New York.

Just outside of Ithaca there is a sweet town called Trumansburgh.

Little shops, the best NY style pizza and a candy store.

"Life's So Sweet" had these adorable finger puppets!

We have three great-nephews and one great-niece.

There must have been 30 different choices!

We picked out animals & birds that best fit each child...

I drew the animal friends on each box to match...

That way when play was finished there wasn't any mix-up

of who belonged to which puppet friend!

I used a medium tip Sharpie pen for a coloring book style outline...

Colored in the illustrations with colored pencils...

Dated and signed the back...

They liked the little blankets and "put them to bed!"

I added felt to the bottom to protect furniture surfaces~

Must admit...

I named them all while I was sketching and removing tags!

I wonder what names the little ones will come up with...

It's so fun to play pretend!