How sweet are these! Amazing what you can do with tubes of 3D fabric paint and a chopping board. There are a few US tutorials on Pinterest using parchment paper but I can tell you grease proof paper does not work!

Best to draw your shapes free hand onto a plastic chopping board and leave to harden for at least 24 hours. (You would be amazed how long this stuff takes to dry!) I added some glitter to the Santa beard for extra sparkle!

We had so much fun and you can reuse them over and over again. Just peel off and stick to a mirror or window.

We went outside and they peered through the windows!

Afterwards we came inside and stuck them to a mirror and learnt all about our reflections. Did you know it is often not until a baby is 2 years old that they will understand the baby in the mirror is actually them! A developmental milestone! You can test your baby (just for fun!) by putting a mark on their face like a red nose with lipstick, if they see themselves and touch their nose, recognising they can see the lipstick mark, they understand it is a reflection!

An easy and quick idea for your little ones Christmas party! The hard bit is separating the Oreo's without breaking them!

Take a chocolate Oreo cookie, slice the top from the bottom carefully with a sharp nice. Squirt some icing in the middle and stick 2 pretzel halves in as antlers.

Lay the top of the cookie back on and add two chocolate button eyes and a red cherry nose. I used a black icing pen to finish the eyes!

There is an old, very traditional fabric shop in the back streets of Weston super Mare. It has no frills but has plenty of fabric including a fab selection of off cuts ready for patchwork. I buy a few occasionally for craft projects and photo back drops and recently bought 3 to make a scrappy wreath, along with some I had left over at home. I am useless at sewing so this is as seamstress like as I get!

Cut your fabric into approx 6 inch lengths, 1 inch wide. The rougher the better so don't worry about any stray ends of some being slightly wider or longer than others.

I tied mine in simple knots to a large twig wreath in a repeated sequence. 5 strips per group with the ends being the same fabric.

Dig out some off cuts as a cheap and easy but very effective holiday wreath!

I was going to add some battery operated fairy lights but it looked perfect just as it is.

I love the front of the house. Big, bold and very festive! I have reused the $1 bows I bought in America last December and filled the lanterns in the porch with festive dried fruit and bay leaves so it smells sweet for visitors!

The big bunch of mistletoe completes the porch for me, even if you do have to duck when you come in!