Christmas Crafting!

Spent all day yesterday making paper-chains, paper bunting, snowflakes and putting the tree up! If you happen to have wallpaper samples in pretty coordinating colours lying around (!) then you too can have decorations as pretty as ours!!

First, I found obtained some wallpaper samples, fairly difficult when your 6yo keeps asking you what we're making with it! Then on the back I measured and marked 9" x 1" pieces of chain, handing over the cutting to the children! Using a stapler to save any breaks in the chain and constant fixing, we stapled every single piece together and blu-tacked the hell out of it in the corners (thumb tacks and heeled shoes were not at hand). I made a star and a heart template from a cereal box and cut out lots of bunts (coined a new term there, see what I did?!). I used some fine crochet yarn and stapled the bunts to it and tied it to my curtain poles! You may have to do a certain amount of uncurling of your bunts (loving my new word) which is easily done with a pen, I used a Barclays disposable!

Then using cheap printer paper, spend hours and hours cutting out snowflakes and use white blu-tack to make pretty window displays!

Get your husband/partner/do-it-yourself-it's-quicker to get the tree and decorations from the loft. Then let your children decorate the tree to their hearts content but only manage 3 seconds before getting all OCD on them and barking out strict Christmas tree decorating spacing methods at them from the sofa!

Very cheap (about 20p) crafting that lasted about 12 bloody hours. I went to bed shortly after!

Now I know I started out talking in the first person term and moved to the third but I have literally spent all evening writing so I don't give a ....!?

Here's the fruit or our (mostly mine) labour!