Hellooooooo! Did everyone (who celebrates it) have a nice Christmas? I hope so.

I couldn’t decide if I wanted to write this week – most of the blogs I read are taking the week off. But I’m around, so I decided to do Charlotte’s Fancy Lite: in addition to today, I’ll post something tomorrow and Wednesday and leave it at that.

So, here’s a pretty, easy and free craft from Kind Over Matter – one that I haven’t done, but that I hope to do for Elena’s forest friends birthday party (coming up in a couple of weeks).

You can get the downloadable patterns from the Kind Over Matter website (poke around their site for other crafty projects and lovely inspiration). And if you have leftover wrapping paper tubes from Christmas, like I do, you’re all set!

Now, where can I get that acorn? I love it.

And one other thing. If you’re thinking about doing the surprise ball favors/craft from last week, I made two more – for my girls, for Christmas Eve – and I added a few things that weren’t in the original party favors. So here are some more ideas of what you could put in them:

Not in the original party favors: Chocolate coins, rubber bands in the shape of zoo animals, a ladybug/butterflybracelet (Elena got a little watch), a compass, and a bouncy ball with colorful balls inside (this was the center of the surprise ball).

I got most of these treasures at the nearby teacher supply store, with some help from Gymboree (the ladybug bracelet and watch), the chocolate gold coins,  and the butterfly stickers (American Girl Doll crafts from Michael’s).