O Christmas Cards; what should I do with you? I love receiving them…but then what? We display them for the holiday season, but leaving them up all year conflicts with the contemporary/minimalist design vision we (read: Rafa) has for our home. Do I throw them in a box? Or into the garbage?!

No!

I had a great idea for a craft! (GASP! Yes! I really did a craft. If you know me, you know what a rare occurrence this is. Yes, I do own a hot glue gun. Don’t worry, it didn’t take much skill. And no, I didn’t burn myself.)

I turned the cards into prayer sticks. Directions for prayer sticks in six easy steps:

Step 1: Receive Cards. Ooh and aaah over the adorable children and how great everyone looks.

Step 2: Display cards for a reasonable amount of time.

Step 3: Cut the cards up! Select the best groupings if a family needs to be cut apart (figuratively, not literally!).

Step 4: Glue to craft sticks.

Step 5: Write the names of people on stick who either didn’t send a picture or didn’t send a card.

Step 6: The most important step. Pray for the people on the sticks!

Our plan is to put the sticks in a fun box in Giana’s room. (We tried a vase, but that is just an accident waiting to happen!) When it’s time to pray, we will pull out a couple of sticks randomly and pray for the people on them. She is already loving looking at the faces while we pray for the people on the stick. I am hoping this becomes a fun way to remember to pray for all the special people in our lives.

So long story short – keep the Sorianos on your Christmas card list! You’ll be in our prayers 🙂