We are busy little elves baking and crafting this week. The girls look forward to making our wrapping paper- foam stamps and freezer paper. It doesn't get any better than a handmade gift in handmade paper! This morning the girls were all in separate places in the house busy creating and asking for occasional help from me.
Pumpkin has been talking about how she really wants a big bike like her sisters' (which, in my opinion, is too big for her- hers is plenty big) and Alybug and Em emptied their piggy banks and went to the bike shop with Rob to buy Pumpkin said bike to have on Christmas morning. What sweet and generous hearts they have!
We watched the Nutcracker to kick off the holiday season a few weeks ago and one of the girls' friends was a soldier. Here they are all dressed up with Grammy before we went to the performance.
As for our creations, I have just a few pictures of stuff in process. But here are some links that provided inspiration for much of our gifting.
recycled crayons- http://rhythmofthehome.com/archives/autumn-2010/recycled-crayons/
candle jars-http://gardenmama.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/12/my-entry.html
peppermint bark recipe-http://orangette.blogspot.com/2008/12/look-at-that.html
fabric balls-http://www.purlbee.com/fabric-beach-balls/
fall canned pumpkin butter and apple butter- I tinkered with a few recipes
There are lots of paper and wool and felt holiday creations around our home- how fun that my big girls now get to work creating all on their own.
I'll end this post with a couple pictures of our sweet Owl, who is mobile now and getting into all kind of trouble. She's crawling and just this week cruising along furniture. Oh my!
Oh, and here are some other posts from my blog that I revisit this time of year- Christmas books and winter solstice litany
