On the fourth Sunday of Advent, the Love Sunday, these are the presents we all gave and received.
Here are Laolao and Laoye with the rugs Mustang and Button made for them. 
We took fleece, cut it into 3" strips, and the kids braided the strips into a long, long braid. Then they hand-sewed them into a coil rug using upholstery thread. I found the instructions on the Internet while looking for patterns for fleece hats and thought it would be a good project for the kids. I've been dying to post pictures and tell about all their hard work, but Laolao sometimes reads this blog so I new I had to keep it hush-hush!! Amost every Saturday morning before breakfast Mustang and Button have spent an hour or so first braiding, then sewing, while I worked on other projects. I gave them very little assistance with the whole thing, just guidance and a bit of patching of holes or tightening loose spots right at the end (and sewing together the stips while braiding, and cutting the strips at the very beginnining - that's it!).
We took fleece, cut it into 3" strips, and the kids braided the strips into a long, long braid. Then they hand-sewed them into a coil rug using upholstery thread. I found the instructions on the Internet while looking for patterns for fleece hats and thought it would be a good project for the kids. I've been dying to post pictures and tell about all their hard work, but Laolao sometimes reads this blog so I new I had to keep it hush-hush!! Amost every Saturday morning before breakfast Mustang and Button have spent an hour or so first braiding, then sewing, while I worked on other projects. I gave them very little assistance with the whole thing, just guidance and a bit of patching of holes or tightening loose spots right at the end (and sewing together the stips while braiding, and cutting the strips at the very beginnining - that's it!). Button's treasures included a quilt from Mommy, a Franklin book, and some paper for folding airplanes as well as a movie and another small book. 
Mustang also got a quilt from Mommy, a bag with a horse decoration on it, a CD with four Magic Tree House books, and a set of toy horses she'd seen at Mrs. Tiggy Winkles and just adored.
I got a bookon face painting and a small mask from Ten Thousand Villages.
The horses close up. 
And here is our Amaryllis, just starting to bloom out nicely in time for Christmas!
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