Merry Christmas, on the twelfth day of Christmas…Santa made me a fishing game.  This is a present for my 3.5 year old.  Each fish has colour, texture, and pattern.  A friend of mine mentioned that she was going to make this game for her daughter, and I thought what a great idea.  The fish are made of felt, and stuffed with a little cotton batting.  Each fish has a number of items sewn on, to make a counting game from 1-10.  Santa made a little worm, and inside the worms head are 4 earth magnets, which allows for the catching of multiple fish.  I am hoping that there will be hours of play with this new toy.  If he doesn’t like it, I do, so I will just hang it on a wall somewhere. 

Thanks for reading the last 12 days, I hope that I have inspired someone to make something.

Today I am featuring a crafty project that my aunt created.  Using a glass block (the kind from a glass block window, purchased at home depot) she drilled a hole, inserted a string of white Christmas lights and wrapped the glass block with a ribbon.     It is a nice glowing surprise under the Christmas tree.

I may have created a little crafting monster over the last couple of months.  My 3 year old seems to like making as much as I do.  He has been busy making ornaments, cards, photo frames and most recently hankies.  There is only one person that I know that uses hankies, so Sasha has been hard at work making Christmas hankies for Uncle John.  Using store bought hankies, Sasha is embellishing them with stamps and ink, a perfect project for little hands.

I whipped up a bunch of tea towels while I was making the Ho Ho Ho shirts for the kiddies.  These are my go to teacher/host/hostess gift this year.  I don’t want to tell you how little these cost to make just in case you are getting some over the holiday season, but lets just say less than one dollar each plus my elbow grease.  But really it’s the thought that counts right. 

 

When I was a kid my mom made us all matching stockings.  Last year she gave them to all of us.  I think that was her not so subtle way of telling us we were all cut off. 

Last year I decided to further the tradition of hand made stocking with my family, and with the addition of another little person to our family this year we were short one stocking, and what better excuse to get out the sewing kit.  Last year I bought kits to make stockings and knowing at the time that we would be a larger family at Christmas this year I bought one extra.  As I was hanging the stockings I was reminded that I had to whip up one more.  Even though I had a pattern for these they would be easy enough to create from scratch with two ingredients.  They are made from felt, and hand stitched together with embroidery floss.  We don’t have a fireplace, so the stocking are hung on the banister with care.