Time for a change

{ Out with the old and in with the FUN }

As hard as it may be to accept sometimes, our little boy is growing up. He is now fully toilet trained day and night. We are so incredibly proud of his achievement.

We no longer needed his change table anymore and I was going to give it to charity...UNTIL my crafty instincts went into overdrive. I saw (again on pinterest) a really cool artwork station that was made from an old cot. This gave me the idea to try it with his change table.

So off to Masters we went. We got some wood to block in the open areas, paint, chalk board paint (my new favourite craft accessory), paint chips and liquid nails.

I am so happy with the outcome of this conversion. Mr X LOVES it and it's a great way to store all his artwork needs.

Here are a few images..

Complete with pencils, textas, crayons, chalk, a chalk board, stickers, stamps, lots of scrap paper and some scissors and glue...

It's the MOST wonderful time of the year.

{Cards, baking, making and so much more}

Like most of you I simply adore christmas. I love the family traditions that come with that magical day. Now that I have my own little family I am busy creating new traditions for them as well as including my own precious memories. 

This year we put up the christmas tree whilst listening to christmas carols, had our annual santa photo done, wrote our christmas wish lists together, we did christmas lights, christmas carols, we made reindeer sleds, christmas finger print cards and we made special reindeer food. 

My favourite part of all was on christmas eve, it was absolutely magic seeing the excitement in their eyes. We sprinkled the reindeer food outside, got the cookies, carrots and milk ready and read our christmas book together. Once they were sound asleep my HUGE job of wrapping all those special presents began. Every year I do this while I watch the christmas carols on TV, my poor husband is usually in the shed constructing something, this year it was a bike.

I hope you all had a wonderful christmas that was filled with lots of love and happiness.