crafts from Christmas {wrapping paper

We made our own wrapping paper this year!

 brown packaging paper from the Dollar Tree 

 Christmas foam stamps from the same store 

[3 packs=6 stamps {ink included}]

 it was lots of fun

I think we'll do it again next year!

blankets & pillows & castles

upon first glance you must think 

this is a haphazard mess!

 and, in a way, you would be correct :)

but there is control in the chaos!

 with EVERY. SINGLE. couch pillow forming walls

and the coffee table edging the 'front'

 with all their throw blankets spread out. 

one on top of the other.

[cause no one's blanket can be left out!]

my girls lounge in their CASTLE!

can you find them? LOL

and yes, they KNOW they are PRINCESSES!

My girls ask to play CASTLE- and I know that I will have, at the very least, 30 minutes of relative harmony and very few questions. Of course, there is the mess. But he who makes a mess... you know it! Cleans it up! Mostly it is just putting the pillows back on the couches and taking their blankets back to their room... 

and they will sit in their CASTLE and read books, color, watch TV, and play general make-believe very nicely-so I help them get all those stuffed animals back to their basket when it's all done.