In Which I Babble

‘Tis getting close to the season… so I will share a few links I have come across already!! Ok so my usual UK site led me to THIS UK site… We are already sifting through their ideas here at home. The big activity we are onto for gift making this year is the felt ornaments (yes yes continuing the felting theme). My new interest in feltie has had both of the twins ask to make ones themselves and the simpler Christmas shapes are a great introduction and practice for them and small stitches. But back to the fun stuff… last year we did the Advent Calendar on our favourite UK site! NOW Activity Village is a UK site so I was able to get the next day (they release it day by day) early in the evening and print off for the next day. Last year was ornaments… we coloured and then cut them out, and I laminated each one! We are really looking forward to seeing what THIS year’s is! (I think the year before you coloured a page a day and made a book!)

Besides my mother’s sugar cookie recipe there is a favourite CAKE recipe that we make each year. Chocolate Candy Cane Cake! It is a Kraft recipe and total yum! Of course I will be making it at least ONCE this year! 

Today was a much better day attitude wise. I only REALLY had problems with Gavin and those were mostly resolved by giving him his allowance and taking him to buy his slurpee. The rest of the kids have opted to hold onto theirs and go to the Dollarama this week for a 1.00 item. They were also given a rather special treat – once all the schoolwork was done that we could do with at least a partially upbeat attitude Ken drug out our Rubbermaid tub of Thomas the train wooden train pieces. Sadly the train table (not Thomas brand) is slightly damaged post move and stowed away but we made do with the top. 

Workbooks...

Snowflakes

And then train time with Dancing!

The felt is all cut for the start of their Christmas projects so that is on the list for tomorrow. We are talking about giving and how special it is to MAKE something for a loved one. I want to instill that in them young as I love making a gift and love receiving them just as much! As well as it teaches them new skills, creativity… blah blah blah. 

And now I am sure we did MUCH more in a day but wow am I out of it with the crafting… Lauralee and Karyn took the little two to the library event where the theme was DOGS. Apparently much fun was has by all!

It's a puppy

We got some lovely mail I will share with you tomorrow and I am back to work on my cross stitching! It feels good to be back on it, even if I am working on black (yuck). So enjoy the Christmas links… and I hope to  be more cohesive in my blogging tomorrow! 

Happy Baby Fun Time

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