Christmas is in the air!

The best thing about November coming to an end is that it means Christmas is only weeks away and since I was little I’ve always loved Christmas day. Eating copious amounts of food with my family, backyard games and some years we even got to swim in my Aunties pool which is very inviting on a hot Christmas day. Houses covered in pretty lights, leg ham on toast with butter, prawns on ice, roast pork and crackling, unwrapping presents with the whole family are just some of the memories the word Christmas evokes for me.

 

 

As you get older Christmas loses some of its excitement and although it’s great to have a special day with your family the magic disappears a little, that is of course until you have children of your own then the magic and excitement are ignited once again. My son yells with delight his eyes wide with wonder at anything that resembles Christmas, saying “Christmas mum, Christmas!” Because I want it to be as special for my kids as it always was for me, this year my husband and I are putting Christmas lunch on at our house.

 

 

I also love Christmas crafts, and can’t wait to start doing them with my kids. When I put their advent calendar together placing lollies and little chocolate Santa’s in the boxes I also put pictures in some to hint at what Christmas craft we would be making that day. My son is 3 and daughter is 20 months so they aren’t difficult crafts but both kids always enjoy painting and drawing so it will be great for them to get creative. I have already been getting creative myself, getting some of my Christmas crafts completed by the end of November so we could put them up with our tree.

 

 

Using my Cricut Expressions machine I made a ‘Merry Christmas’ banner in red and green and I also made two Christmas chandeliers which are red and green baubles hanging from different heights with fishing line from a metal ring wrapped in gold tinsel. Having always wanted a wreath for the front door I finally bought one this year and I also purchased a wooden letter ‘H’ for our initial. After painting the letter red with gold trimmings and varnishing it I used a hot glue gun to attach it to the front of the wreath. All of the projects I completed were quite simple but they all look very effective when hung up.

 

 

This weekend I am hosting a Card Making party for a group of friends and family at which we will not only get the chance to catch up but also get creative and make some Christmas cards for the people we care about. I’m really looking forward to it and can’t wait to see what everyone makes.

 

 

December will be a fun but also busy month with Christmas parties and plans to go camping along with landscaping so I’m not going to have much free time. Because of this I won’t be pulling out a motivation card for the month but look forward to sharing my Craft Room make over from last month’s motivation sometime this week. Hope you enjoy my Christmas crafts as much as I did making them.