I Spy a little Christmas

You've seen these books. My kids and I love these books. We can pour over them for hours looking and searching and trying to find the hidden things from the riddles and then we go back and try to find the things from the lists in the back of the books.  I even found a small board book of I Spy Christmas that I used to let my kids take to church. I should get that out for Jordan and Hunter to "read" when they are here....

I have had an idea coasting around in my head for a while now. I stopped into Micheals today on the way home from the rheumatologist's office.

I was looking for a special container to hold some stuff. (it's Christmas time, I can't be more specific)

Micheals was having a sale. 60% off stuff.

This really cute lighted Christmas bear just jumped into my cart. His price tag said $69.99

His sale tag said $19.99

At the register the cashier gave me a coupon to use on him.

He cost me $10.

I'll show you a picture of him when I take a picture of my outside decorations later tonight

But I digress in my story of my trip to Micheals this morning.

So, while perusing the aisles of marked way down stuff

I came across a cute little wodden snowman

and my I Spy idea took root and sprouted

I picked up this jewlery tray

(only thing I got that wasn't on sale

I have another idea, but this

worked for the currently

sprouting idea)

they came in gold, red, and white as well

but this was what I wanted today

I then got gobs of way marked down stuff

See those cute snowmen in the middle right?

Gobs of wooden cutouts

(most of their Christmas ones were

not stocked, but I made it work)

Then I went home

opened all the packages

got my wire cutters out

snipped

arranged

rearranged

snipped and arranged some more

called Jess to come give me her opinion

she helped me rearrange again

Then I heated up the glue gun

glued, and glued and glued

And this is what I made

(instead of cleaning out my sewing room- again)

My original idea was to get a shadow box divide it into 26 sections and do an alphabet I spy box. I still want to do that, and I want to do a dinosaur one for Hunter and a princess one for Jordan and soccer for Brandi and music for the boys and, and, and....

You can see where this is going can't you? I am going to spend the next year hunting for little nativity things and make a nativity one for next Christmas. This was so fun. I think I might make some and start selling them in my etsy shop.

And I have another idea as well. I got it from this that my kids love and the Christmas idea  here.

(and speaking of nativities, am I the only one disappointed by the lack of nativities in stores this year?? What's up with that?)

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Indeed.