Narrative the doll's celebrate advent

thank you

 

thank you, life is getting a bit more hectic here too, glad this helps you smile

 

the girls spent the afternoon making wrapping paper chains

first they cut up strips of double sided wrapping paper


then worked in pairs to make long chains


crystal and annalise made thin ones

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cricket and dovey made fatter ones

 

meg was up late tonight making aprons and oven mitts for this weekends' baking marathon

 

the sewing machine is an our generation one (roughly american girl doll sized) i got on ebay a while back, most of the our gen sewing kit was too big, but the machine was about the right scale. my real one is about that big proportionately and when put on a different table works quite well. the dummy is a blythe sized one that you can usually find cheap on either ebay or etsy. i need to eventually make one big enough for meg, this one fits the little girls stuff

 

meg had some unexpected appointments today, so baking got postponed till monday. to wear off some steam the kids decided to have a dance party. they shoved the coffee table over and eilidh offered to man the record player


things were going well till noah thought a pillow fight would be more fun, and poor little annalise got overwhelmed by all the noise...

 

i know right?

 

since there was another fresh fall of snow last night, the girls went outside and made snow angels.

 

the boys found to their dismay that their winter jackets were in the wash (don't ask ), but meg gave them a bunch of giant pompoms and let them have an indoor snowball fight. emrys drew the short straw and had to use the girls pink table as his fort, so he covered it with a blanket so no one could see.


some of the shots went pretty wild, no real harm done though,


and they had a lot of fun!

 

they are, we've done them with giant pompoms, cotton balls and rolled up white gym socks. all of which make nice soft "snow" balls and are great on days when you just can't get outside for some reason, or there is no snow

 

exactly, especially not when your opponent has a regular wood one!

 

for the last sunday of advent, dovey got to light the candle


The fourth candle represents peace and is called the "Angel’s Candle." The angels announced that Jesus came to bring peace--He came to bring people close to God and to each other again.

 

we get snow, but it doesn't last long and often was too icy to make into snowballs, so indoor fights were a great alternative.

 

the girls got together to make the christmas cookies today
meg got out their new aprons, then kiri and eilidh set up


next they mixed the batter


after they rolled out the dough the little ones cut out the cookies

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i was going to take pretty pictures of the cookies they made, but unfortunately with so many kids in the house all that was left was a few crumbs

 

that sounds yummy! merry christmas to you as well

 

advent is almost over, we've made it through all 24 days, tomorrow is christmas! the girls carefully hung all the stockings on the fireplace for saint nick


then went to bed, to try and sleep

 

i'm glad you enjoyed it. sounds like a fun time with your granddaughters, hope you have a wonderful christmas

 

that sounds like a lot of fun

was your granddaughters book specific to dolls or just flat pattern making in general?