December

I think I say this every year, but this year really has gone by so fast, it feels a little odd thinking about decorating the house for Christmas, but with today being the 1st of December, thats just what we have started to do.

I gave a little sneak peak in my last post of the Advent calendar I have been making, here it is all finished :-)



I admit I cheated a bit, with so much crafting to do I didnt think Id have time this year to make an Advent calendar, but on a trip to Hobby Craft I saw some make your own kits, all the material is there, you just need to snip out the bits, sew on the pockets, back it and add something to hang it up with, and despite slightly cheating we really love it and its the biggest project I have done on my sewing machine to date!



We decided on fudge to go inside the pockets, something that I was confident would last the 24 days without melting or going stale, so yesterday we set about making chocolate fudge. The recipe was really easy, melting together chocolate, condensed milk and butter then beating in some icing sugar, pouring into a non stick tray and leave in the fridge to set for an hour, unfortunatly our fudge has turned out more like a loose set toffee, delicious, but a bit gooey, so rather than my plan of wrapping all the chunks up and filling all the pockets up, Im having to keep the chunks in the fridge and each night Il fill the pocket up ready for each morning, doing it this way also means little hands wont be tempted to empty all the pockets in one go when Im not looking ;-)



This morning Emy and H were both so excited to get their treat out of the pocket and we lit our advent candle too while we waited for the sun to come up



Wishing you all a wonderful start to Advent x