Candle Mod Podge-ry

Gorgeous.  Now while I don't do Hanukkah, this might be great for Advent candles next year.

Found at Curbly.

Happy Advent Day 2

What a beautiful day.  The house got cleaned and then we listened to Christmas music all day via Shoutcast.

Then Jared came home with the first Christmas card of the day, which was a handmade card from someone on the Holiday Wishes website - thank you Elizabeth!  She even threw in some floss and one is sparkly gold!

We then went to Walmart and I got some craft supplies to finish the advent calendar and we got our treat to celebrate Advent, a Dairy Queen Blizzard.  


Came home and worked on the edging to the Advent calendar, then made supper, salad and turkey burgers (which I mixed 30% with ground beef), which even Aidan ate completely.  


Now they are reading stories in the big brown chair, and I'm just so content and happy.


And after adding bias tape to the edge, the calendar is done - except for some way to hang it.

Happy First Day of Advent 2009

So Advent is here, and its exciting!  This is our first family celebration of it, and really its the first time I've ever celebrated it ever.  I'm finishing up the calendar I made to start using on the first day of December in terms of crafting, but in terms of marking the Advent season start proper we started reading from the bible using this site every night before supper.

I also got a candle holder thing and I'm lighting one candle this week every night to burn while we eat.  Its not purple, as is tradition for this week, but I have a ton of candles and its in a candle holder so you can't see the color anyway.

Then we all played some Wii Sports as a family activity and drank hot chocolate with candy canes.

Found at Flickr.

Hope you are starting your Advent season in good spirits, health and remembrance of what this time of year really means.  :)

It's Done, Well Mostly

Now all I need to do is buy some backing, some fabric to mount them on, and enjoy Advent.

Nativity of Felt

This is too amazing for words.... 

Found at Abbey Christine.