New Years Eve!

It's new years eve and I spent the day with family! Tonight I finished making myself some bible tabs for my new bible. I used scrapbooking paper that I liked to give it a soft feel! Now I'm ready to start my new years resolution to read the bible in a year again. I've read it twice, but there is so much to take in and learn! It's an easy DIY (Do it yourself!) project and super easy! I just cut 1.25 squares, cut little notches in the bottom, and taped them in! What do you think?

Thanks for reading! ~The Vela Homestead

Merry Christmas 2017!!

Hi everyone! I hope you have all had a great Christmas this year! I had such an amazing Christmas with our families this year! We've had a lot of loss over the years, and while our family dinners may be getting smaller, the love we have for each other just continues to grow! I wanted to share some photos of our Christmas Eve!

Every Christmas Eve as our tradition I make matching family pajama's for us all, but this year my parents joined us so they got matching sets too! I used CKC Patterns Taylor Pajama's pants pattern, and Fleece from Joann's so it is really affordable! 
My mother is extremely sick. She has Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), formerly known as primary biliary cirrhosis. So them staying with us this Christmas was a huge treat for us. She needs a liver transplant to survive and it's been so hard watching her get sicker and sicker, but I pray that 2018 is the year that she gets a new liver, and a new chance at life! Please consider being an organ donor today, there are so many people who need the gift of life! 

Our Christmas tree before Santa came!

Christmas Eve has come!

Natalie making Santa some chocolates!

Goodies left for Santa and his Reindeer!

A place for Santa to sit down with his snacks! Natalie wanted it "comfy" for him!

Thanks for reading! ~The Vela Homestead

Goats in Pajamas!

I'm a seamstress and own a PDF sewing pattern company called CKC Patterns. So It was only natural that I would make the girls some pajamas! Now they don't wear these much. I made them just for fun and not for warmth, but aren't they just adorable? I'm including both images and a cute short video clip at the bottom. One thing I love is cute little goat in pajama videos and I knew the girls would look adorable in their own!

Thanks for reading! ~The Vela Homestead