~A Winter Craft~

The other night we created these cute little snowmen. Avery and Caleb loved making these and they were so easy and fast. No messy glue was required and clean up was a snap.
Everyone in our house is getting excited for Christmas and the kids have just finishing writing their letters to Santa tonight. They can't wait!

~Other Advent Calendars~

So besides making Advent calendars in the past I have also bought a few. We have this Play Mobil one pictured below. The kids like it but I think that they are getting bored with it now.

The picture on the box

There are small boxes that hang on this board, each day one box gets opened to reveal a play mobil accessory

This is the backdrop for all the accessories At the end of the 24 days you have a play scene that looks like this.

The kids loved opening a box each day to find out how it fit in.

I then considered buying a new calendar this year and was looking at this one:

I know that the boy would have loved it as he is into lego right now (& playing Lego Indiana Jones on the Xbox!) but decided to save getting this one til next year.


Now onto to my new creation! I know in my last post that I said I would reveal which calendar I was going to create, but I have decided that I will do the big reveal on Dec 1st. So for now, here are some pics(hints) of my work in progress.

~The Countdown is On...~

So now that Halloween is over, everywhere we go we are bombarded with Christmas. And for some reason this year, I am falling into its trap! Usually, I avoid anything Christmas-like until about the first week of December but this year I find I am anticipating and planning more than I have in a long time now.

Also, I have been feeling idle. I need to create something. Now that the Girls' birthdays are over, I need a new project. The last thing I created was a circle birthday banner for Avery (see the pic in that post) and now I need to do more.

So what is on my mind, you ask? An Advent Calendar!

I have been scouring all my fave online blogs and sites searching for something new. And I think that I may have found what I was looking for.

Below are some pics of my faves, a few of them I have done in the past.

I have done an envelope one before (not the one pictured above but something similar)

I like the look of this one but don't think it would be as appealing to the kids

I have made this matchbox one before also (mine is almost identical to the one in the above pic)

This matchbox one is cute too

This one is very creative in the numbering

The ones below are my absolute faves:

oh so cute!

This one & the next 2 are made with small round metal tins

Which ones are your fave? What one would you choose?

I will reveal which one I am going to do in the next couple of days.

~Happy Halloween!~

Hope everyone had a nice Halloween! We sure did!