Christmas this year was a simple affair at our house. We filled each child’s stocking with a couple of small hand puppets (purchased for $1 apiece at Target and Michaels) and one small wooden animal from the Vienna Christmas Market. We didn’t wrap any gifts for Lily, but we gave Johnny and Emma each [...]
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One of the many reasons I was excited to visit my family in Vienna in December was because I knew we would be able to visit the city’s famous Christmas markets. We visited three different Christmas markets, where I gained a deep appreciation for the frequently modest prices of handmade items on etsy [...]
Nativity Scene made using this free pattern from Under My Umbrella. I finally finished Lily’s stocking this morning! I cut it out last year when I made the other stockings using this pattern, but I put off cutting out and sewing on letters for her name until this week. Emma insisted I include a picture of her with the stockings, because there can never be too [...] My mother gave us Jan Brett’s Christmas Treasury the Christmas Johnny was born. It is one of Emma’s all-time favorite books, all year round. Emma will happily sit through all seven stories: The Mitten, The Wild Christmas Reindeer, Trouble with Trolls, The Twelve Days of Christmas, The Hat, Christmas Trolls, and The Night Before [...] We marked the beginning of the Christmas season by putting up our Christmas tree and making a paper chain. I originally intended the chain to be long enough to go around our tree, but the kids lost interest. We embellished it a little with our heart-shaped hole punch. We only own this one hole [...] Still looking for an advent calendar for your child? Check out this free coloring advent calendar from Activity Village! Emma and I made a mother-daughter outing to our local craft shop yesterday to see what was left in the post-Christmas sale section. We found some cute wooden Christmas ornaments, originally $0.99, on sale for $0.29. I let Emma chose four, and was originally planning to save them for the kids to decorate next Christmas. [...] For our craft today, we cut some Christmas cards into puzzle pieces. The puzzles work better if you back the cards with cereal boxes (or cardstock) for stability before cutting out (use a glue stick and be generous with the glue – and leave time for the glue to dry before cutting out. The non-printed [...] I finished the stockings tonight! My husband wound up cutting the letters out for me – first he cut squares and then he cut each letter our of a square. Count on an engineer to think up that way of keeping the letters the same size! I think they turned out cute, although Johnny’s is a [...] |
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