Magic Reindeer food

Getting ready for Christmas we thought we would do a small job to help Santa and his reindeer's find their way to our house.  Every year we have put out a carrot for Rudolf but this year we have decided to feed all of the reindeer, and we have made some magic reindeer food.  According to Soph this is best done in ones underpants !!!

 
  This is such a nice simple task to do and all you need are some oats and different glitters to add the magic and sparkle to the reindeer food.

First of all add some oats and then let your little one go to town shaking and sprinkling in some lovely silver glitter and maybe sing the Jingle bells song too.  Its quite good to add some bigger glitters so that really shows up as very twinkly and we added some lovely silver stars, of course after each type of glitter that was added there was much stirring to make sure the magic was well combined with the oats.  Finally we put our special magic reindeer food to a nice pot and put a ribbon on it and Sophie draw a lovely picture of Rudolf.

   

On Christmas eve we plan to sprinkle the magic food on the lawn so Santa and the reindeer can see the pretty sparkles from the sky and fly in for a nibble.

 

Baker Ross Christmas crafting kits

Having more fun and getting ready for Christmas we are playing with Baker Ross with a selection of fab crafting activities 

Peg Planes

 We are thought would try our crafty fingers at making some peg planes, which are simple enough to do for little hands.

Venturing slowly into retail

Well im starting to slowly venture out into retail and i am so happy to have met a wonder lady from the Waddesdon Deli company Wesscot i was really taken with her kindness as she let me stock my items foc as she explain she knew how hard it was for small business to get going and she did me a lovely display in her tea room and loved my cupcake soaps, she even placed once on her main counter to trick her regular customers into thinking it was real, What a Hoot!

Very simple Christmas gift tags

Ok so this is very simple but its great for recycling art works from little hands into more personnel gift tags, plus adding a lot of glitter to the paint adds sparkle to the tags.

Stir it up sunday

Well its the 25th of November and its stir it up Sunday which for those that don't know its when you make your Christmas puddings and Christmas cakes.  I had already made my Christmas pudding the year before as i made two and heard that if you save one over the year the flavours of the Christmas pudding just get better with age so we will be testing this out this year.

Renaissance Christmas fair

The weekend passed and i was at the Renaissance Christmas fair, which is a charity day care centre for adults over the age of 18 with mental health diagnosis, the fair was helping to raise funds for the centre. It was a good day trade was a bit slow i think this was down to the weather and perhaps the location but it was not down to advertising as these guys did a great job at putting the word out, how cool i made second billing! It was was lovely to see familiar faces holding stalls and coming to visit.

Pretty cuffs

I think the whole crafting creative thing is rubbing off on Sophie as she came up with her own craft today, Toilet roll cuffs.

Fireworks night

Well as most of England celebrated Fireworks last night and at the weekend our evening also went with a bang as we had our annual fireworks party in the back garden.  As always Unka (uncle) came over and was adored by Sophie the entire time, and he even got a make over from Soph as she stuck lots and lots of different coloured gems to his head.

Sainsbury's Taste the difference range

We got a rather nice parcel today and it put a smile on my face when i opened it as i had been running round trying to clear up Halloween and hadn't had a chance for breakfast or a sit down.