Christmas Craft: Lightbulb edition!

I've been working non stop up to Christmas, so getting in the festive spirit this year has been harder than usual. I use every minute I get with Rio getting him to be excited for Santa, crafting and singing away. So when I was asked if I wanted to enter a Christmas craft competition I thought why not? I'm not really good but every little helps ;)

The task? To decorate a lightbulb!

My first attempt, a reindeer, kind of 'melted' when I dried him with the hairdryer. Oopsie!

So I raided the cupboards for another bulb, the last one, remind me to buy another, and started again with a more 'simple' design.

- First I covered the metal with red tape then added red ribbon.

- I then let Rio splodge some gold glitter glue on and added little pom poms to those areas.

- I then finished off by putting little dots of silver glitter glue to the bulb. And although it doesn't look in the pictures, in real life the clear glass with the little dots actually does like quite pretty.

If like me, you'd like to do some Christmas crafts, or even enter to win £100 John Lewis vouchers last minute. You can read all the details here.

Christmas crafts with Hobbycraft

I hear "want to draw", countless times a day. Rio loves drawing. He'll get out his crayons and his paper and will happily sit and draw circles ("snowmen") endlessly. Recently we've been venturing out into crafts.. leaf art, footprints, painting and what not. So when asked if we'd like to try out Christmas crafts I thought, why not?

Annalise is craft crazy so of course we invited her over to join the fun.

The candy canes, glitter gingerbread men etc given to decorate the tree were so creative and easy to use but the star was a little fiddly to keep balanced.

If you've ever been to Hobbycraft you will know that the list of things to do/create is endless, so there is something for everyone, quite literally! If tree's aren't your thing why not have a go at creating your own wreath?

This kit retails at £5 and is currently included in hobbycrafts 3for2 offer!

Overall they were lots of fun to do, even at Rio's age, and made great personal decorations for the Grandparents!!

This product was sent to me free of charge for review. The content and opinions however are all truthful and my own!

Rio's first advent experience

Other than buttons, Rio wasn't really much of a chocolate eater last year so we didn't get him an advent calendar. This year he's a bit more interested in Christmas, and chocolate, so when Craigs mum offered to quilt him one we was like "yes please grandma". Its filled with a mixture of things, mainly Christmas themed chocolates and kinder. And although he doesn't know how to find the right number, he has pretty good fun guessing :)

Thorntons Christmas Hero

Do you ever wish you could show that one person in your life just how much you appreciate what they do? Well, Thorntons have given me that chance!

I was recently contacted asking if id like to take part in their Christmas hero's competition, a chance to give a gift to someone who really deserves it and one person sprang to mind. My Mum!

Despite being ill with a arm's length list of illness' and on a page long list of medication, she watches Rio twice a week so i'm able to go back to work. She goes out her way for my other two sisters and their children too and never grumbles.

She's gave me a part of my life back, so although this is tiny in comparison, it wont go unrecognised, im sure of it!  In fact.. she's a soppy so and so and will most definitely blub like a baby when it arrives!

On top of that since being originally contacted I've fell down the stairs and broke my foot in two places. Despite being exhausted my mum didn't hesitate to tell me to fetch Rio through on the way to the hospital. And though I'm being 'miss independent' and looking after Rio myself..she hasn't batted an eyelid at my million clothing alteration requests so I can actually get dressed.