Christmas Crafts-Mom and MIL Gift

For my mom and Joel's mom Jayne, I made pillows.  Heart pillows with the girls' handprints on them that is.  I debated about the pillows, how to do them and such.  I started out on linen embroidering the hands on, but they looked too plain.  Thank heavens I did start this project early (this is the only one!) so I could change how I was going to do it.  I like the way they turned out:)

Jayne was very excited to receive hers.  She is always enthusiastic about anything we give her:)

Pnut's hand is to the left and Pilly's to the right, but they are just about the same size.  Pilly's hand was a little chubbier yet, but not too much shorter!  I liked the polka dots on the white fabric, they gave it texture.

Rather randomly, I will also share pictures of these cupcakes:

They are snickerdoodle cupcakes.  I thought they turned out really pretty!  Note:  Carefully read and comprehend instructions.  The icing made 8 cups, I wasn't thinking and thought it would ice eight of the cupcakes, but I was determined to stretch it to do all 12!  I threw a lot of icing away that day...