7th day of christmas

We have been hard at work around here getting ready for the twins' birthday tomorrow. I have finished my first jumper- well I actually had to do two, so lucky they were little!

The sewing needles were also out making hats and jeans for...
Two colour coded cowboys. I have also finished saddles for the trusty steeds that mum has made to match but I will show you those on Wednesday.

Oh, and just for something else to do, I have had the sandpaper and beeswax out finishing off the table with Alexander.

All this and we are still trying to be 'christmassy'. Tonight I tried to get the kids to do a bit of a christmas disco and put on the christmas carols - but they were not so thrilled!

our fairy door

So this is our fairy door. Its sits on the wall in a little corner of the hallway. The boys can often walk past it and not even notice, but then sometimes there is some glitter and other times there are even little notes.

Here is how I did it. While I had intended to actually make the door, I even bought balsa wood for it, that went in the too hard basket and I bought a dolls house door that is 1/12th actual size.

The door comes as raw basla wood and I got it from The Dolls House in Riversdale Road in Camberwell or you can buy on line via the link. The door is hinged and opens inwards, which for a fairy door is great, because the concept is that only the fairies using their pixie dust, can open the door. I also bought door handles and numbers in gold which jazz it up that bit.

I gave the doors an undercoat, then painted them in normal acrylic and finished them off with a gloss top coat. The reverse side of the door I painted in silver with glitter on it - to make it a bit more mystical, but also it is against the wall so you don't actually see it.

Once painted, the door is ready to find a home. You could rest it againt a bookshelf or a wall, but with curious toddlers, I was keen to connect it properly. I used 3M's wall hanger range, which is double sided and doesn't damage the walls. I cut them to size and simply pressed it to the wall.

We wrote our fairy a card and left the key hanging on the door. When the fairies moved in they took the key and left a sprinkling of fairy dust. Now we use this place to communicate with them, who are always around even though we cant see them....

6th day of christmas

my true loves had a brief time out on the couch watching one of my favorite christmas movies - Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer.
Another busy day - Alexander has a birthday party and I have a baby shower - so I have been busy finishing the pencil case and embroidering the cot sheets as gifts.

4th day of Christmas

Alexander and I made our christmas wreath. It is one of Martha's inspirations in a Christmas book we has from the library last year but the idea stuck. Simply sticking jubes into a foam circle with toothpicks. I broke the toothpicks in half and put the point into the foam. All in all pretty easy for an effective result - now we have to protect it til christmas!!

5th Day of Christmas

We (yes all of us!!) have been busy making a good friend a birthday present. Her party was today and we finished it just in time. A suburban fairy door.

The time consuming bit was formatting the story which went with the book ( I have a tendancy to go a bit OTT!!) but it is all delivered now - and Alexander had fun at the gymnastics party.

Christmas theme was reading a Christmas story - someone must have known we would be busy!

2nd day of Christmas

My true loves made for me - patty pan decorations for the christmas tree.



A fun activity to make our play group space a bit more festive - and they all had fun- but then who doesn't love a bit of glitter!

1st Day of Christmas

With the advent calanders up- sadly only our traditional one - not the new whiz bang one I have been planning since being inspired in JULY! - I think while my inspiriation is high, my dedication is low. Maybe I should start now for next year! Anyhoo - I also bought some (gasp!) commercial calanders - with the little chocolates in them. Mainly because they had the boys beloved Fireman Sam on them. Thankfully they are not into Bob, Thomas or Diego whose faces adorn many products, so seeing these was a bonus. The problem is they realise all the windows have chocolates in there! So far we have only lost one (number 13) but we will be lucky if a few more dont get eaten early.

The other one Santa or his elves put a little surprise in each morning and this year we are doing christmas activities too. Today was a family dinner out - which was actually really pleasant. Most of the things will be crafty, but we will plan that as we go!!

Oh and apologies for quality of recent photos - I cant find my card reader to put the pics onto the computer!!