so crafty!

For Christmas this year I felt like Charli and I could really do some projects together, so I went a little nuts and made an advent calendar for her (based on this blog post) with a different activity for each day. I'm not really very crafty, but it turned out so cute and I had fun doing it (and stressed out about it, too. This advent calendar was way more stressful than my job). Here are some of the things we did!

the advent calendar itself

We made hot chocolate with these fancy chocolate sticks I found. You are supposed to swirl them in hot milk or water, and they melt and make hot chocolate! Well, that DID happen, but it took a while and in the end it just devolved into being a chocolate lollipop (which might even be better)

We painted nails, and established that I own enough nail polish to throw out a few bottles that had completely dried up into uselessness, and yet still have more than enough to paint every single fingernail and toenail a different color.

We made banana bread! This is a yearly thing, and really it's a big girl thing as opposed to a little girl thing, but Charli did help out at the beginning, and she's getting very good at cracking eggs!

We made these super cute paper ornaments! We put six or seven onto each long string of fishing line and hung them in our windows, and they look so nice! We also made snowflakes and paper chains. So fun!