It's 25 sleeps to go....
... until we celebrate another Christmas in our little family.
Celebrations are an important thing to us. We like a little pomp and ceremony. Of course, Christmas is a little different to other celebrations as it is not focused on one specific member of the family. Rather, for us, it is a celebration of our family; it is a time where we like to celebrate that our lives have been touched and improved by many amazing people. Christmas is not a day, it is a season. We spend almost a month doing things that reaffirm our family unit and oftentimes make us look outwards to our wider circles of friends, acquaintances and community.
As mentioned in my previous post, last year was the first time we did an activity based countdown. I made up little activity cards that were placed in a string of numbered felt stockings. This year, I wanted to ditch the stockings in favour of playing with my die-cutting machine. So I bought some graphics sets from Lettering Delights, downloaded some free digital papers from Digitee and Smitten Blog Designs and messed around until I had some card concepts that I liked. I printed the cards and cut them out (using my very spiffy machine) and then I printed and cut coordinating stickers with the daily activities to stick on the back of each card.
It was quite a bit of work, but having seen how much my kids have pulled out last years cards and played around with them throughout the year, I am happy to put a bit of work into something cute for them.
Now for the fun to begin....
Celebrations are an important thing to us. We like a little pomp and ceremony. Of course, Christmas is a little different to other celebrations as it is not focused on one specific member of the family. Rather, for us, it is a celebration of our family; it is a time where we like to celebrate that our lives have been touched and improved by many amazing people. Christmas is not a day, it is a season. We spend almost a month doing things that reaffirm our family unit and oftentimes make us look outwards to our wider circles of friends, acquaintances and community.
As mentioned in my previous post, last year was the first time we did an activity based countdown. I made up little activity cards that were placed in a string of numbered felt stockings. This year, I wanted to ditch the stockings in favour of playing with my die-cutting machine. So I bought some graphics sets from Lettering Delights, downloaded some free digital papers from Digitee and Smitten Blog Designs and messed around until I had some card concepts that I liked. I printed the cards and cut them out (using my very spiffy machine) and then I printed and cut coordinating stickers with the daily activities to stick on the back of each card.
It was quite a bit of work, but having seen how much my kids have pulled out last years cards and played around with them throughout the year, I am happy to put a bit of work into something cute for them.
Now for the fun to begin....
