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.

Have fun, Internet crawl notes

Hello

Today's internet crawl starts at the current Spoonflower voting list - this week it's calendars for next year. There are some fantastic designs to choose, and you can vote for more than one idea. (I voted for about 5 or 6).

Next - Kids Craft Weekly, for a great bunch of crafty Christmas ideas - I can recommend purchasing the Christmas Crafts pdf - I got last year's and it was great. This weeks newsletter is about ideas for Advent calendars, but you can look up the older newsletters by clicking the sidebar link.

Printing and paper fun - a whole bunch of lovely, free downloads from The Small Object. I have used a few, and everyone comments on how cute the images are, and there are a couple of fun ideas like the little notes. There are a few more downloads available aside from this link, you have to look about halfway down the front page to see a complete list.

And finally, for those of us who never grow up, a fascinating set of videos and photos from Eric Carle, detailing just how you make a Hungry Caterpillar!