PomPom decorations!

I hope everyone had a very Merry little Christmas! We had a lovely day with just the 5 of us at home with a traditional turkey and all the trimmings! Yum! 

I made a lot of white and red pom poms last year , for absolutely no apparent reason other than that I had red and white wool that I wanted to use up! So I put them to use this year and used them to decorate the hallway....they are very proudly hung by the door to the lavatory!

A bit of tinsel and some red bells and hey ho they look quite jolly! Things to do if you have too much red and white wool!

Usbourne Christmas Book!

I am not sure what made me buy this...it retails at £14.99 but on the Book People website I found it for £4.99 and so bit the bullet and got it.

And what a surprise I got, it is wonderful! It has page after page of wonderful papers that have pre-marked designs for snow flakes, angels, stars and paper chains! This would be a fab buy if you make cards as you would be able to use quite a few of the pages. However, I brought it to make things with the Princess/Diva.

She quickly got the hang of cutting out the snowflakes and managed all these in an hour by herself!

We then moved onto the angels which are wonderful....so easy to do, so many different paper designs and simple! Sorry but I cannot stop raving about this book, I have even taken it when we go out on playdates so that if they get bored our it comes and let the cutting begin.

The kids Christmas Trees

As I said in an earlier post, when we went to have a look for a tall fake tree, the kids all came away with a little tree each....so cute! The Diva of course chose a bright neon pink one!!!!

She chose the decorations out of our big box too and did it all herself...so this is the tree that is proudly displayed in her bedroom!

A, chose a black tree, much to my surprise...I was sure he would choose the orange or the dark gold one. (orange is his ultimate fav colour!) He also chose some decorations out of the massive box we have and took them up to his room to decorate his tree....

O, went for the dark gold tree instead! So he also decorated it himself and chose what went on it too...

They have all really enjoyed doing this and are very proud of their trees...they always take their friends up to see them!  They also brought them out of their own pocket money too. Christmas Day tomorrow! It has certainly crept up on me....you may find a few more Christmassy posts yet to come!

More elf antics

Evie obviously thinks that the children need watching, she spent last night taping googly eyes to the fruit in the fruit bowl! How great they look!

Minecraft birthday cake

I realise that this is a little out of season and late! However a while ago (november) it was A's birthday and he was 6, he is well into Minecraft, the computer game that the kids all go mad for at the moment. Very blocky. He declared a while ago that he wanted a Minecraft party and cake so, snotty nosed I took on the challenge....

I admit that I am not the best cakemaker in the world but the kids seem to like what I do for them each birthday. It is supposed to be the grass blocks that you have on the game (brownies) with a waterfall running over them and a Creeper, a Ghast and a Pig. 

Sorry for the blurred picture....I really should not get other half to take the pics as he really is not used to our camera at all! As always you can see that our A surrounds himself with the girls...the two boys that he invited were given end of table seats with 4 girls and his sister around A

A good time was had by all. I shall have to do a Minecraft Party Post with the games and other bits and pieces for those seeking ideas (note I am not saying inspiration!!!!)

A snowman in the bathroom?

We love Evie! This morning A got up to go to the bathroom and discovered what she had got up to last night....

Obviously she was showing off her creativity to all the little smurfs that we keep around the bath tub...just for the extra cleaning!! A was absolutely astounded by it....he still really believes in all the magic that is Christmas.No idea how he will react when we eventually tell him the truth....eekk.

Elf antics!

Last night Evie managed to get her hands on the water spray bottle that we use to scare the cat off clawing the sofa. You can see the cat does not seem scared when Evie has the bottle! A thought it was great when he came down in the morning though and saw what she was up to. The box is one that we are going to be attempting to make a gingerbread house out of. I got it from my friend who has all the mobility shops locally, she gets huge boxes that the wheelchairs come in!?!