Time To Start Crafting Again...

Hi Honeys,

Well, that's it.  A whole evening spent making up little treat bags for tiny humans to collect tomorrow.  It was a lot of fun, as it always is.  I love Halloween.🎃 

Now though, it's time to start thinking about the next holiday period, and to that end it's time to get out my air dry clay, my cookie cutters and get crafting again.😊

A couple of years ago, I used some air dry clay, cookie cutters and some acrylic paints and had the most fun making little tree ornaments to put inside Christmas cards.  

Well, now that all of the work for Halloween is over, it's time to start crafting again for the holidays.  So, now it's time to take out those cookie cutters again🎅🎄

Making these little tree ornaments is a perfect, fun craft for tiny humans.  The air dry clay is rolled out, the cookie cutters are used to make the shapes needed, and then a pencil is used to make a little hole for the ribbon to be threaded through.

They are then left overnight (it might take a little longer, depending on how thickly/thinly the clay shapes have been cut) then even more fun!  The tree ornaments can then be decorated.  They can be painted, or left as they are, and lastly, pretty ribbons can be chosen to thread them with.💖  

 As you can see honeys, my favourites are the little angels👼 I collect angels, they're all around our home, sitting on shelves, on bookcases, and they always make me smile.😊

The little bells are painted silver, just like the angels wings, while the Christmas trees and the buttons on the cute little gingerbread men are painted using a sparkly, glittery paint. 

 

Of course there are other preparations for the holidays too.  Getting my much loved brother-in-law's room ready for his visit and of course planning and meal prepping his favourite dinners for him too💖 We only get to see him once every year because he lives so far away so his visits mean such a lot to us.  

We also have a lot of holiday baking to do too, of course, which I adore doing, but it's spending an hour or two making tiny tree decorations to hide inside Christmas cards that I so look forward to.💖

Are you making a start on your holiday preparations honeys?  What's your favourite part of holiday prep?  So many hugs dear ones and thank you for keeping me company.  Till next time, hugs always xx