Yesterday I had the inaugural 'Visions of Sugarplums' girls craft day at my house.
Nine perfectly behaved little crafters came along.
They were all 5 - 7 years old with one 9 year old there to help.
I couldn't resist a little festive decorating for the occasion.
Any excuse to pretty things up!
Of course the day started with a cupcake!
Our first craft was decorating little gingerbread houses.
You know how much little ladies love icing!
The weather was beautiful (for a change!) so the icing dried quickly and we were able to assemble the houses easily.
It was a very serious business!
The girls also iced Christmas cookies for their daddies.
Here is Liberty's finished house.
The decorations came with the house kit.
Gingerbread house city!
Patiently waiting for lunch.
Here's one of the reasons I haven't been blogging this month.
I've been baking and selling these cookies, they've been very popular!
My friend Pauline came to help me (thankfully!), we were so busy we forgot to take photos of all the crafting.
The girls made bath salts for their mothers, crepe paper roses and beautiful gift tags.
The tag making was the most popular activity, they kept asking if they could make more!
They also made ballet dress Christmas decorations.
And folded paper decorations.
They all had such a good time.
It was a very busy day, but we all had such fun!
And they're all wanting to do it again!
Now I have three days to get this place ready for Christmas...
Merry Christmas to you all!
Mercedes
She was one happy kid! Especially when she saw there were paints in the box!
There were stickers in the box too, this bracelet is made from the stickers
Thank you Sylvia! Liberty is still having fun making jewelery!
A while ago Sans sent me some flowers. I used the yellow paeony looking ones in the basket arrangement on the table here. 
In the latest package there were some tiny flowers that I have 'planted' in my little garden. (Rosanna - the garden should be finished this weekend, then I will reveal all! LOL!) 
Some of the large flowers had holes in them so they could be used as beads, Liberty has had great fun making jewellery! 
There were hairclips for Liberty which she loved so much she's gone to sleep in them and a little porcelain doll - which Liberty wasn't too sure about at first but today it had joined her family of dolls and was having a great time! LOL! I'm sorry I don't have pics of everything, today turned into a crazy day. We unexpectedly ended up at the cousins for dinner and got back home way later than I thought we would with one very tired and upset Liberty! I can only hope she will actually sleep in tomorrow - something she rarely does!
Well, Easter is in full swing around here! Today Liberty begged and begged to make cupcakes. Baking with her can be a bit of a trial I have to say. When she says she wants to bake what she really means is "I want to eat cake mixture". 
We'll take these cupcakes to the cousins when we go there for Easter lunch on Sunday. I made a little buttercream frosting 'nest' on top of each one and it was Liberty's job to place the candied chocolate eggs on top. Of course it was a silly job to entrust her with, I caught her licking an egg and then putting it on a cake! LOL! That one was specially set aside for her, with extra icing on top so we knew exactly which one it was.
After we had finished icing the cakes I put the icing bag on the bench, only to turn around two seconds later to see Liberty squeezing the last of the icing straight into her mouth! And to think she was so sick she couldn't eat anything just a few days ago!
And all these sweet little things for her dollhouse. Look at those tiny boxes, so lovely! And the most beautiful little wicker pram with a tiny Brazilian doll in it. Marlies wrote in her letter that it was one of the first things she ever wickered. Liberty thought I'd said 'wicked' when I read the letter to her so now it is her 'wicked' pram! LOL!!
Liberty has been very sick in the past few days, just when we thought she was over her tummy bug it came back with a vengeance. Today she was still very tired (she fell asleep on the floor without eating any dinner!) Thank you Marlies that was such a sweet thing to do, you really brightened her day!
