Entertainment Center

Hubs finally finished the entertainment center. It's...um... a bit big.. I will have to get used to it! Just happy to have it out of the garage! We used plans from Ana White (here) and tweaked to our needs. Or hubs needs anyway. It was definitely a learning experience along the way. The cabinet doors have this metal mesh stuff (technical term!) rather than being solid doors. My genius idea, thank you :) We have our internet stuff, gaming stuff, sound stuff and cable stuff all in the cabinets and it all gets hot hot hot. So the mesh as well as a fan hubs installed in the back of a couple cabinets help it from heating up quite as much.

Advent Calendar

Just wanted to share a cute advent calendar I found for Z baby. I'd been looking for awhile now. I had one growing up and loved it. We always got a small a gift each day and its something I will continue with my kids. And we started with Z this year! It also was nice to spread her gifts out. We have awesome relatives that didn't mind me giving her some of her smaller gifts as her advent gifts. Z gets a bit overwhelmed opening a bunch of gifts all at the same time so this was a great way to spread it out. The calendar I found at fisherprice.com. Z loves playing with it as well and an added bonus you can use it as a matching game to help learn to match up numbers as each little piece has the number on the back :)

Fuzzy Polar Bears

Another Pinterest idea I found somewhere and can't find again otherwise I'd link it since I can't take any credit for it being my idea. I cut some basic heads on my cricut on white cardstock. I just did a large circle and two smaller ones for ears, welded. Then I washed out some little fruit cups. The small plastic individual ones. Z baby gladly ate the fruit first for me. She's my fruit monster! Then I painted the inside of the cups white and glued them onto the head cutout for the nose. Then I gathered cotton balls for the fur and found a bunch of colored puff ball things I had intending to use those for just the eyes and top of the nose. Z baby and her BFF had other ideas though! We ended up with some mighty colorful polar bears! Love the creativity :)

I just smeared a bunch of white glue all over the head and then let the girls go to town with the cotton balls and puff balls. In hindsight I should have used more glue, many were falling off. Or I could have let them dip each ball in glue and stick them on that way. Next time!