Showing posts with label GiGi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GiGi. Show all posts

Monday, December 6, 2010

Grandma's Advent Boxes

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Clever title no?

Ah well.

Here's the pictures.

Aren't they cute!

I made a mixture of boxes, filled them with some candy, and now she'll have something to look forward to as a countdown to Christmas.

I even sewed the ribbons to make the loop....which means that these are basically disposable boxes, but that's okay.  If I know Grandma, she'll open them as carefully as she can and save them for a while!

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Grandma's Ornaments

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As many or all of you know, this year is the first year my Grandma is in the Manor for Christmas.

When we moved her out of her house she got rid of all her Christmas stuff. 

My mom has bought her a new little tree for her room and some decorations to make it feel a little bit more like home.  She mentioned that maybe the kids could make Great Grandma some ornaments for the tree.

I grabbed some paper ornament directions off the internet.   We made a quick (ha!) trip to Michael's and bought some Christmas craft paper and some supplies and then headed to Mom's to craft.

This is what we came up with.




Mom also had printed out some pictures of the kids over the last year and made herself a few star ornaments for her tree.  There was pictures left over that she sent home with me, so I made some to hang on Grandma's tree.


In a haze of glue, I decided to make her some advent boxes too with little treats in them for her to countdown to Christmas with.

However, I ran out of ribbon and I can't post them half done!

Another trip to Michael's.   Oh darn.