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Advent - how do you do yours?

 

We currently have 5 different ways to count down the days until Christmas in our house.  Firstly my very own calendar which I have had since a girl.  Then there is the Bunny rabbit Christmas house calendar, the Christmas garland calendar, the advent candle and then there is this:

 
This is an ongoing project which each year gets 'tweaked' and added to slightly; a button here, some trim there.  This year it was the stamped numbers.  I have been in love with this set of stamps for several years waiting for the moment when I could no longer justify why I didn't have them.

The stocking advent was inspired by this photo from the Martha Stewart website:

 

 

 

 

 

Felt revelation

I always presumed that felt making was a complex business.  Then, a few weeks ago me and my son went to a felt making workshop for mums and tots.  I was so surprised to find that within a few minutes we had managed to produce something resembling felt.  Of course he was having the most fun squirting water and soap everywhere, whilst the hard work of agitating was down to me.  Nevertheless, the instructor reassured me that there wasn't much that could go wrong and there was probably no such thing as too much water or too much soap!  Just as well.

I was so encouraged that I decided to buy some supplies to try it at home - this is what we bought ::

And this is what we made : :

Not bad for our first attempt.  My daughter is going to turn hers into a hairband - watch this space!