Poole’s knitted 10ft Christmas tree on display – parishioners in Dorset have knitted a 10ft (3m) high Christmas tree as part of an annual festival.
Make a cabled wreath at knitting on the net
Fave crafts have a free snowflake garland pattern to crochet
Crochet Everyday has crocheted this pine cone and there’s a free pattern too.
Oddknit has instructions to make your own knitted paper chains
Was does the discerning baby wear on its bottom at Christmas? A festive cloth nappy of course!
Baby Bum Boutique are selling these rather snazzy Bum Cheeks Christmas One-Size Pocket Nappies for £19.50 each.
Modernolive sells these Nordic fleece shorties for £5.27 Fleece shorties can be used to cover cloth nappies and are great for adding extra protection over disposable diapers for heavy wetters.
Totsbots have these special Christmas edition nappies in reindeer, gingerbread and robin patterns for £17.99 each.
Today is Darwin’s 2nd bithday so I’m taking a brief detour from the Christmas Advent calendar links.
Opening presents in the morning
We had a party at our house and lots of his little friends came including Maisy
Daddy made a Button Moon cake complete with Mr Spoon’s spaceship (and smiley gingerbread faces)
My favourite part of the day was seeing Darwin’s birthday card read out on CBeebies. It was awesome seeing his grinning chops on TV and hearing Cerrie say his name! You can relive the glory on BBC iplayer (will soon be taken down though).
In the last year Darwin has learned how to walk and talk. I wonder what next year will bring…more sleep? Nah.
Papermash sells spotty washi tape for £3.50 a roll
My favourite is this gold snowflake masking tape from Papermash
Cute tape has Christmas washi tape to pep up your Christmas wrapping
Red ‘Merry Christmas’ washi tape sold at Pipii for £2.95
Twig and Thistle has a DIY pine cone garland
Thingstomakeanddo has a paper pine cone tutorial
These frosted winter pine cones make a lovely embellishment for presents
Papermash sells this pine cone and fir stamp perfect for making cards and gift tags
Darwin and I made this pine cone owl at playgroup
Make a pine cone hedgehog over at Kiddley
I just love bottle brush trees, I’m really not sure why, but I do. These colourful ones are courtesy of Madame Cupcake.
Simplysugarandglutenfree.com have this yummy looking recipe for gingerbread made without refined flour and sugar. They are made using buckwheat flour and coconut palm sugar.
I’m going to have to make these!
Sass and Peril gift tags
Holiday mail stripey gift tags
Wood Type holiday printable kit
Benign objects holiday freebies - templates for a pillow box, CD case, labels
Kawaii panda tee $21.95 at Japanla
Children’s Wooden panda stool from Country Corner for £16.50
KitSound Panda Buddy Portable Speaker available at John Lewis £14.95
For a few more pennies/cents why not buy Panda ukulele (pandalele) from Celentano Woodworks (etsy) for $600
Please do not buy me this Red panda outfit ¥3,500
Pure joy events blog has these stunning uses of washi tape for Christmas
Use Japanese washi tape to make this pretty garland over at funkytime
A Spoonful of Sugar has used red and white polka dotted washi tape to make this sweet deer
Superjunk has this washi tape bow tutorial
