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Sunday Snapshots (of Christmas Decorations)

Marie Haigh4 Comments

How I hate decking for Christmas when it is frigid outside. So with temperatures in the 60’s this weekend, it was the perfect time to hang the outdoor Christmas decorations.

One day this tree will be as tall as me. Until then, it is our Charlie Brown tree.

Elly has helped deck our home for Christmas.

She made an ornament out of Crayola model magic clay. It’s a funny face, in case you were stumped. 

She filled our hand knit stockings (no, not by me. These were knit many years ago by my neighbor) with pinwheels.

She made a Christmas themed angel house.

Our local garden store, Achin Back, taught a fairy garden class today. Elly was the youngest at the class. Though I helped, Elly called all the shots. She picked the pot, the plants, the decorations and, of course, the angel. The end result is gorgeous and now sits on our dining room table.

Sunday Snapshots (of the Crayola Factory)

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On Thursday, Elly and I went to the Crayola Factory with our local Moms club.

She drew on a car.

She decorated a crown with stamps.

Well,to be more precise, Elly only used one stamp to decorate her entire crown. Plus she never actually stamped with it. She preferred the smearing technique. It allowed her to cover more of the white space in a short amount of time.

She cut up Crayola model magic into itty bitty pieces.

She drew with markers in their dark room.

She decorated a guitar.

She piloted a boat through a canal riddled with locks.

Yet, oddly enough, her favorite thing to do in the Crayola Factory had nothing to do with crafts. In a room geared for children 5 and under, there was a ball elevator. Truly, we need one of these in our basement. She would be entertained for hours. Literally hours.