Advent calendar bag No 24

Bag No 24 is of course the last bag...

... always a bit of a sad moment for me. My little one thinks this will go on forever I guess, so she quickly opened the bag, ate the gummi bears, gave the cookies to her baby doll and then moved on...

We can really learn a very valuable lesson from our children: live in the moment. Don’t worry about tomorrow. After the last bag there will always be a new bag (even if you have to wait for a whole year)!

Advent calendar bag No 23

Our Advent calendar rope looks very sad by now. Just one bag left, since bag no 23 was opened today...

... and contained a huge chocolate cake.

Already decorated with icing and cherries as well as pre-cut. The perfect purchase for any working mum ;-)

By the way whoever came up with the idea of using Velcro to stick pretend play fruits, veggies (http://ninotschka13.blogspot.de/2011/12/homemade-christmas-adventskalender.html ) and cakes together? Thank you! That was brilliant. My little one loves to cut them with her little wooden knife and it gives me the time to do the same with my sharp knife without any yelling from her.

Eye Candy: Christmas Cookies

All it takes are 5 girls, lots of icing, sugar stars, hundreds and thousands and butter cookies – et voila! Almost too beautiful to eat. Well, almost ;-)

Advent calendar bag No 22

The sweets department really is the strong side of Vicky’s shop. Bag no 22...

... delivered a birthday muffin with three candles.

How convenient since my little one always plays 3^rd birthday with all her dolls and animals. Oh my how she longs to turn 3! Ever since the day she turned 2 actually ;-)

Advent calendar bag No 21

In order to make the ice cream shop even more popular, bag no 21...

... offered two new ice cream flavours: cherry and vanilla with hundreds and thousands...

... or tomato and glitter as my little one called them.

Advent calendar bag No 20

Bag no 20...

... wow, Christmas is really just around the corner. So today there were a few felt cookies and a real pack of gummi bears...

 

... to calm everyone’s nerves.

Quick Gift: Hot Chocolate Set

Still need some pressies? Yes, it is the same thing every year ;-) Here is a quick and very sweet idea

For... girl friends, sweet guys, child care taker, neighbours, colleagues, children, snow lovers and skiers

Why? Because everybody loves a hot chocolate. To warm up after a long day outside. To give one an emotional hug

Buy a beautiful cup. I found mine with the matching spoon in a 1-dollar-shop

Make a bag full of hot chocolate powder, a bag of chocolate sprinkles, a bag of homemade Ginger-Almond-Crossies (http://ninotschka13.blogspot.de/2011/12/homemade-christmas-ginger-almond.html)