new ornaments

Christmas festivities have begun around here....Rudy, our elf, made his yearly trek, much to the girls' delight, our advent calendar is in use each day, and the girls got their new ornaments for the Christmas tree.  Every year I try to get them one that reflects their current interests.  The problem this year was that Rachel's biggest interest, Minecraft, doesn't have a Christmas ornament available to purchase, and Wonder Woman, Rebecca's favorite thing, is equally hard to find (old ones are available on eBay, but that's the only place I found any).  As I was searching online for minecraft ornaments, which don't exist, I came across a few etsy shops where people make them.  Several were made out of perler beads.  Well, Rachel has a mosnterous sized jar of perler beads, and it looked easy enough that I could figure it out, so that's what I did!  I made my own!

Then, I thought, why can't I just make my own Wonder Woman ornament too?  So that's exactly what I did.

I felt kind of silly during nap time, sitting at the kitchen table all by myself doing perler beads, but I was pretty happy with the results, and the girls were really excited about them.

Happy December!