Friday, 30 November 2012

One for the Men - Beer Lovers Advent

Hi All,

It's one for the adults today.




Hi All,

This is the beer lovers advent, I'm not a beer lover but these Mango beers smell lovely, I actually tried it, usually just the smell beer makes me want to vomit - This one is for Julian.

I did the same as the baby advent, hopefully they don't get mixed up - Julian doesn't like custard.

Simple, quick and a treat he doesn't get often - he's quite happy with his advent, bring on December!


Thanks for reading,

Mel xo
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Thursday, 29 November 2012

The Movie Lovers Advent

Hi All,

I'm so so late with this post! Here is day 5 of Advent week introducing The Movie Lovers Advent



There are no pictures of this but essentially it's the same as the kindle advent.

Supplies

  • Board
  • Paint
  • Vinyl
  • Popcorn boxes
  • Lollies



Steps


  1. Paint the board
  2. Cut vinyl, I found a free movie ticket style frame on the Make the Cut software
  3. Then i added the popcorn boxes and filled them with 11 redskins in each box


There will be a surprise come the first, I'm placing a movie ticket in each box.

If you're wondering why I have been so slack with this post, it's currently 100f/38c degrees outside and the study is even hotter!

I am sweating bucket loads in here! The popcorn boxes are made from card and turned out to be too heavy for the advent so they are resting against the board on the shelf.

DIY Delight or Disaster? Oh it's okay, the weather really did put a crimp in my motivation, on the other hand, have you ever meet a kid that will be disappointed with lollies and movie tickets? I think we'll be just fine!

Other (better advents so far)




        A Kindle Advent
  


I'm off to see if I can crawl in the fridge  - Thanks for reading the ramblings of a heat induced, insane woman

I'm sure Advent week will be a little more awesome tomorrow, a break in the weather is coming!



Mel xo

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Wednesday, 28 November 2012

A Kindle Advent - A Readers Dream!




Hey all,

Welcome back!



Day 4 is all about Jack but can easily be adapted to any reader - The Kindle Advent.

This one is actually the one I love most, only because Jack is the hardest kid to buy for.

As an avid reader I wanted to give him the one thing he would want more than anything, a book a day, and thanks to Amazon and their freebies I only paid for a couple and they were less than a dollar. 

Want to make one for the reader in your life?

Supplies:

MDF Board
Black Paint
Paper
Circle punch
Vinyl - if you don't have a cutter you could paint this

Paint the board black, the pictures are not great the house was dark yesterday due to a freaky thunderstorm.


Cut (or paint) your screen, originally I was going to have Merry Christmas Jack running like sentences in a book, but then realized the weeding would take me forever.





Jump on Amazon and choose your books, I printed them on to 2 inch circles


 Then punched them out and also punched out grey ones to make the kindle buttons


 Stuck them together, placed them on the board and she was done. Each night I will have the books delivered to his kindle.  Again, sorry about the pictures.



Thanks for coming to see another installment of



If you missed them we have:

      Tween girl jewelry advent                    15 min baby advent                 Toddler Advent



Thanks for reading,

Mel xo


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