What are You Eating?!?!

Ever thought you'd eat a tractor?!?!??

Now, I can't take credit for this design. A wife of one of Tom's customer's gave him one for Christmas. So, on the weekend, I braved the Christmas crowd at the Bulk Barn (which wasn't too bad) and found all the chocolates I needed!

Now, if you know your tractors, you are usually a green tractor fan or a red tractor fan. So, to keep everyone happy I made some of each!

Snow Day

Today is a kid's dream come true...a snow day before Christmas holidays start.

While the snow falls and blows and drifts, I've managed to keep my kids busy enough that I don't think they've even whined once!

Here's how we managed to fill half of our snow day...

Christmas Card ball

Candycane cookies (and wreaths and a ladder..not sure why the ladder).

Advent!

It's beginning to look like Christmas around our house!


Every year, I buy those cheap chocolate advent calendars for the kids, but, this year I decided to sew an advent calendar and put my own treats in for each day. I wasn't sure if this was going to be too big a task, but I surprised myself.


I found a great fabric panel that already had nice squares for pockets. I just had to cut out each individual square, iron little seams down each side, and then sew them on the red panel. A little time consuming, but I'm very happy with the results. Take a peek...


I'm not sure what I'm going to do exactly for the numbers of each day. I may just take some ribbon and hang the number on each pocket and after the kids get their chocolate, they can tuck the number in the pocket and they can see how many days until Christmas.

Here's a close up of some of the pockets.