Friday, December 07, 2007

The advent calendar activites are really proving to be a fun way to tick the days off, here is what we have been up to recently...

3rd December...Make christmas cards so we got busy with the good old potato stamping trick and some of Mums supplies and away they went!


4th December....Make homemade Lemonade....my helpers squeezed madly and even thought up a name for their brew! Samuel was chief taster and drained his glass in seconds(not taking after your Grandad there are you Mr Bum Bum!!)...must say its quite delicious with a drop of gin in it too!



5th December...a phone call from Santa!!!


6th December...Put up the Christmas Tree.


Sparkly twinklies!


and tonight December 7th.....a nice simple one...reading christmas stories..

Over to scrapping...it was my turn to create a sketch for the Monthly Sketch challenge at Scrapbook Studio....would love to see what you create with it...everybody is welcome and you may just win the $20 voucher to spend at the shoppe...now that would be a nice little addition to your christmas stocking!


I actually got out from under my little scrapbooking rock and went to a local Scrap n Chat last night...it was bliss! Got my layout done and met some other ladies who like to shuffle bits of paper round too, completely relaxing with no distractions...this could become my weekly escape lol!

The last NZdare of the year is going up tonight too... Everybody is sure to have something they can scrap for this one!




8 comments:

Jan C. said...

The expression on your son's face in the "phone call from Santa" picture is precious! Looks like you have a pack of little artists on your hands.

Heather said...

wow you sure have been busy. I love the idea of doing a new thing everyday, how fun. love all the pics.
Adn as usual I love your layouts, they are super.

Heather said...

wow you sure have been busy. I love the idea of doing a new thing everyday, how fun. love all the pics.
Adn as usual I love your layouts, they are super.

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shalay said...

Wow, you certainly are a busy mom! All those pictures are adorable, especially the ones of the kids talking to Santa!

Roo said...

Love all your advent crafts - the boys look to be having such fun. Cool that you got to go the scrap night. Great los.

Hannah said...

So cool that you do all this fun stuff with your boys - I'm sure they will have wonderful memories of each Christmas and doing all the fun Advent Calendar activities!! LOVE the potato stamping ... that sure brings back memories of school and kindy!!! LOL

Sharon said...

I am officially a bad mother - no advent calendars in our house! Love your sketch though - hopefully will remember to use it!