I cannot believe how fast the time has flown by! I haven't been blogging as you can see... I've been too busy trying to work on all the projects I've made for myself. And I've made too many projects for myself!
I do have 11 gifts wrapped and under the tree already. Two of which are second hand clothes for the kids (one package for each of them). I've done a lot of sewing, scrapbooking, and a little bit of clay work. I've also made all my cards (done that, whew) and handed out over half already. I started my baking, and I'm happy to say that yogurt cups make adorable spritz cookie baskets!
One thing I'm really proud of this year... I made my advent calendar inserts myself. We used a second hand Playmobile advent calendar again this year, and I also pulled out the truck I bought sometime last year after Christmas was over. It was originally $20 or $25 if I remember, and I got it for $5. It has little magnetic doors, and inside I put little printed papers with activities we will do together each day until Christmas, along with something that sort of goes with the activity (or candy). Tomorrow... is decorating a gingerbread house.
I have NEVER in my life made a gingerbread house from scratch. When little, my mom bought one of those kits, and that is the same thing I did with my kids last year. Well, I saw that a friend of mine had made a gingerbread house and it looked so nice (and smelled even better! Those kits have not-so-tasty gingerbread). She gave me the recipe, and I baked it all up yesturday. My son wants to do a gingerbread train (he saw the kits at the Superstore next to the house kits)... so... I came up with a way to make cookies into a train shape as well, once I had cut out the gingerbread house pieces themselves. Today I assembled all the pieces on the board, and it is ready for decorating tomorrow... to go with our advent activity! And inside the advent calendar with the paper describing what we will be doing... a few gumballs! I can't wait to do this with the kids!
So, in all, things are trucking along. I have another 'half done' gift that I hope to finish this week, three gift ideas in my head I hope to do as well, and two rather large items that I REALLY need to start if I'm to get anywhere on them (my son loves trains... so I want to turn a table we have in our basement into a train table. My daughter is into Barbie sized dolls now, and it looks like she'll be getting a number of items to go with that newfound love this Christmas including furniture and clothes for the two (soon to be three) dolls she has. I want to make a simple barbiedoll house). Wish me luck... I'm going to need it.
As for my husband... I am having an impossible time figuring out what exactly to make him. He is NOT easy. Stocking stuffers for him are NOT easy. I've done my yearly tradition item for him (a Star Wars ornament) and I have 2 or 3 other gift ideas, but I want to do something really special. Sigh.
Oh... and my budget for the year... is not very high. $200. That is it. For everything (food, ingrediants, anything I need to purchase for crafting whether I use it all or not, etc). I'm still quite under, which is really nice!
As for hubby making my gift... I am not sure that is going to happen. He still has to make his ticket gift. And he hasn't really started on that yet.
Two weeks... two weeks...
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