Finally got the advent calendar up...this morning! Each cup has a peanut butter cup (Quinn picked it). The little scrap of fabric will move along as a marker. This isn't the permanent home for the advent calendar. The permanent home is getting built (more on that later). So the reindeer need bigger noses, but I am all advent calendar-ed out. Maybe I will go back and fix up the noses later. This project took way longer than I imagined. Y'all ever have ...
CELEBRATE! Parties & Holidays
It’s a Holiday Table, With the Whoop-de-do
...and hickory dock And don't forget to hang up your sock "Cause just exactly at 12 o'clock He'll be coming down the chimney Coming down the chimney Coming down the chimney, down! I guess I am having a little too much fun with my title. Feeling festive yet? Because I am a little crazy, I set a holiday table (Christmas in November anyone?) and took pictures for you folks. No spend November means I used what I had. The most useful thing you can have in your decor arsenal are a few glass ...
Gratitude Jar Revealed
A whole lot of thanks going on around here. The gratitude jar we set up at the start of November (more on that here) filled up with a ton-o-thanks. We have a whole lot to be thankful for around here. Yesterday, being Thanksgiving and all, we carved out a little time (pun intended!) to gather as a family and read the things we are thankful for. To make sure Quinn was engaged we put him in charge of pulling out each slip of paper and handing it over to be read. This was so fun and truly was ...
Reindeer Footprints
The little tree trunk from yesterday's craft (here) inspired today's project. For our rotating gallery we made reindeer out of the kids footprints. This was the perfect craft for my Rudolph obsessed son. Are those not the cutest reindeer you ever saw? CLICK HERE TO SEE WHERE I PARTY AT! ...
Family Christmas Tree
This is our first Christmas as a family of four. I wanted to celebrate this in a memorable way so Saturday night we had a little family craft time. Since this is no spend November (Yes, we are still doing that and incredibly we haven't spent a dime beyond groceries, gas, and bills) we had to use what we had around. In my head I had a vision of a Christmas tree made from our hand prints. All we had was flimsy paper, but we did have a bunch of file folders from my classroom. So we got together as ...