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Advent Calendars 2025

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 For my birthday this year I was gifted two very special advent calendars. It's no surprise that I love advent calendars, I share them on my little blog every year. I love the tradition and the ritual of taking time every night to stop and spend some family together time. Counting down to Christmas helps us slow down and appreciate the little moments that make up the season, like opening our calendars all together in the evenings, with the fire burning or opening them on weekend mornings sipping on coffee. This year I have 2 new calendars to enjoy and add to my Christmas decor for years to come.  My hubby gifted me the brand new Gilmore Girls Light-up advent calendar. I've tried to avoid spoilers but one thing I did see was how to turn on the lights. If this is helpful at all for you, the battery tab that you have to pull to use the lights is behind box #7. I love the look and coziness of it, I can't wait to see what's in it!  This beautiful tree was gifted to me from m...
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Yearly Round-Up

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This has been a good crafting year! I have done some crafts by myself, some with my kids and some with my mom. I am so glad that my kids still like to have craft mornings with me and with each other.  We had some memorable events and celebrations this year. I was able to plan parties for  birthdays and a baby shower for my sister. As always I made lots of Halloween treats and school snacks. I have felt very creative this year, I am ever grateful for this creative outlet. Thank you for reading and following along.  Happy New Year and as always happy crafting!
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Countdown 2025 Day 24

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  Well it's here! The final day of our countdown 2025! I opened door #12 today and found the cutest representation of the Stars Hollow gazebo. It's a little jewelery box, so cute and original. The perfect final surprise of the Gilmore Girls advent calendar. All in all I think that the advent calendar was definitely worth the money. The advent calendar itself can be refilled, or just used as decoration. The surprises inside the calendar were good quality and unique. Thank you for spending some time with me during this month. I have enjoyed opening my advent calendars and sharing my surprises and crafts. Thank you for reading along, Happy Holidays!
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Countdown 2025 Day 23

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At the beginning of the Christmas season I bought a Christmas Collage and Sticker book from Grabie. I have just discovered the Grabie craf website. They have beautiful paint sets, paper and stickers. The book I bought was, the Holiday Magic cut out and stick it collage book. We have been using it for so many crafts and with 200+ pages I think we will be using it for years to come, or at least for next year as well.  Some crafts we made are these festive bookmarks. On day December 21st, Little Miss' activity was going to a coffee shop to read Christmas books (definitely her mother's daughter!) I thought that we could all use some new festive bookmarks. We used some of the punch out paper shapes from the book along with some of the stickers with self adhesive laminating sheets. I love how cute they turned out! Only two more sleeps, happy holidays!
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Countdown 2025 Days 19-22

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We are officially on Christmas vacation! The kids are off from school, all the exams have been written and all the crazy themed days are done! All my Christmas work parties and celebrations are done. It is family time!  The first order of business was to write a Christmas to-do list. Little Miss loves the book 5 more sleeps 'til Christmas (and the show too, but we can't find anywhere to stream it.) In the book, the little boy plans out and countdown the days leading up to Christmas. Our list includes, Christmas baking, reading Christmas books at a coffee shop, looking at Christmas lights, wrapping Christmas presents and our little family Christmas before our bigger family celebrations. We have lots to do in the next couple of days but I am sure that we will enjoy every minute of it! Happy countdown, only 3 more sleeps 'til Christmas!
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Countdown 2025 Days 17 & 18

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This week I opened boxes 9 and 10 of my Gilmore Girl advent calendar.  In box #9 was a cookie stamp with a beautiful snowflake carved on the bottom. It says I smell snow on the top with a picture of the snowflake.  I don't think I will use it for cookies because I am not sure if it is food safe. I am thinking that I will use it to make salt dough ornaments.  Box #10, only 2 boxes left! Today I got a pen. It matches perfectly with the Chilton notebook, probably because it's the plaid pattern of Rory's school kilt, which I love! I am very happy with the surprises that I have gotten with this advent calendar so far.  Happy countdown! 
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Countdown 2025 days 11 -16

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Crafting and painting and beading oh my! We had some friends over this weekend and we crafted up a storm. It was wonderful and now I feel very creative, I was in a bit of a creative slump and this weekend has me wanting to create some more!  Happy Holidays!
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Countdown 2025 Days 9 & 10

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I am a little late posting this because life has been lifeing lately. It's that busy time of year when work is finishing up for the and all the Christmas activities are starting. I started writing this post on the 10th and didn't get around to finishing it so here goes.  Day 9 I got two dragonfly napkin rings. They are so pretty and they feel very solid and good quality. Dragonflies are special to me, we used a dragonfly as one of the main characters in our Tidy Planet Adventures book series, his name is Doug and he is a lot of fun.  On day 10 I got this cute coffee cup. I like it a lot but it is very small, maybe it's an espresso cup but in this house it's going to be a doll cup, because Little Miss' dolls like Gilmore Girls too! I have 3 doors left to open, I am making it last by opening an advent calendar surprise everyone other day. Saty tuned and I will share more Gilmore Girls goodies along with some festive crafts we've been doing.  Happy Holidays!
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