Advent Activity 1

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And, fortunately, today's was an easy one! I got to choose one of the thirty odd books in the "Winter Basket" which I gathered together from the shelves at home and the local library. We sat on the sofa and snuggled - a bit - and enjoyed a quiet moment. Hope you enjoyed your day too.  I have now set up a Flikr pool if anyone else is joining in - Flikr Pool - I look forward to seeing you there.

The Advent Calendar

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As you can see, there are a few tickets missing holders. This is because I ran out of loo roll middles. Painted card is currently drying on the stove, I (or the elves) will be finishing it overnight!

Are you ready?

Yay, it's Advent Sunday tomorrow.  And you know what that means - the Christmas countdown begins!

I have been looking around for Advent ideas, and have found tons of things to do.  Even though I now have the children's flu, I will persevere and tomorrow will be working on this idea from MayaMade TP Advent.  Fortunately I have loads of cardboard inners, so we should have enough for the whole thing.

This will be filled with little activity tickets, and I found a lovely set of vintage prints to use - here, and a whole bunch of ideas to put ON the tickets here. On this lovely site you can move through from one activity to the next by clicking on the link at the top of the post.  Have a look at her other pages too - the advent ideas are from a while ago, but there is so much more to look at here!  I won't be doing all of those listed, but a good selection have gone on the list.  One of my favourite ideas is a different book related to the general theme of Winter - which I will definitely be incorporating.  TIme to go and sort the book shelves out!

I will also be including a few activities like 'take a walk to see the Christmas lights', 'make eggnog and drink it by candlelight', and of course 'decorate the tree'!  It would be really nice to see what everyone comes up with - I will be posting pics as soon as I get going tomorrow - so if anyone else wants to join in with their makes, let me know and I'll set up a Flikr pool.

Wishing you all a lovely, peaceful and fun-filled Advent season.

Fab find for a Sunday

And another one - which I just found (thanks to the Old Style Money Saving Experts in the November Grocery Challenge).  I'm really stoked when I find something that's useful, easy to make (and therefore crafty-ish) and FREE. 

Have a look at the PocketMod - it's a little bit Filofax, a little bit origami - and LOTS of fun!  I just printed off my own little fun pad to tide me through the week, and I'm really looking foward to using it. 

The best bit?  Getting to recycle it at the end of the week!

And if you're wading through cereal packets, you might also like the handy carboard wallet, found here.