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Greetings,
Every holiday season we try to find new things to add to our existing traditions. I take 2 weeks off of work and each day we do something.
Many board game days - some days we'll do all-day campaigns, other days we'll do 2-3 hour co-op, others we'll do dexterity tournaments. We added a nice "Go!" set this year from Yellow Mountain.
One day we'll do an Animal Tree (make a bunch of animal ice-cubes and food blocks that we hang in a tree in the woods that animals flock to for a couple weeks).
This year we also began painting miniature models from our games that have them - Shadows Over Camelot, Zombicide and Blood Rage. (quick shade makes modest painting skills pretty legit!)
For years my wife has been wanting to do homemade ravioli - like she did as a kid. It's a 3-day commitment (a couple hours each day), so this year we finally tackled it. We ended with 140 ravioli (big, they double in size). (recipe and instruction on request)
Every year my wife gets me an instrument. She is very musical and does piano lessons, plays dulcimer, guitar, ukelele, etc. She's gotten me a few things over the years, bongos, djembe, harmonica, lap drum...this year was a Didgeridoo:
We always have a Lego day - each of us gets at least one new set. It took years, but Lego is finally making closeable boxes and lasting manuals:
My boys are getting more serious about their action figure collecting and playing - so we got them Clayface and Titan Joker this year - i'm blown away at the sheer size and articulation of these. If you're familiar with the Marvel Diamond Select line, where Abomination, Juggernaut and others are a full foot tall, weigh nearly 3 lbs...then you have a baseline. These new ones are massive - Clayface is nearly 5 lbs and 18" tall - just enormous:
These just are a few of the things we've expanded on or gotten into this year. The model painting is going to require some additional investment - we have good paints (army painter) but our brushes aren't going to cut it long term.
So, what traditions or new discoveries have you found?
Every holiday season we try to find new things to add to our existing traditions. I take 2 weeks off of work and each day we do something.
Many board game days - some days we'll do all-day campaigns, other days we'll do 2-3 hour co-op, others we'll do dexterity tournaments. We added a nice "Go!" set this year from Yellow Mountain.
One day we'll do an Animal Tree (make a bunch of animal ice-cubes and food blocks that we hang in a tree in the woods that animals flock to for a couple weeks).
This year we also began painting miniature models from our games that have them - Shadows Over Camelot, Zombicide and Blood Rage. (quick shade makes modest painting skills pretty legit!)
For years my wife has been wanting to do homemade ravioli - like she did as a kid. It's a 3-day commitment (a couple hours each day), so this year we finally tackled it. We ended with 140 ravioli (big, they double in size). (recipe and instruction on request)
Every year my wife gets me an instrument. She is very musical and does piano lessons, plays dulcimer, guitar, ukelele, etc. She's gotten me a few things over the years, bongos, djembe, harmonica, lap drum...this year was a Didgeridoo:
We always have a Lego day - each of us gets at least one new set. It took years, but Lego is finally making closeable boxes and lasting manuals:
My boys are getting more serious about their action figure collecting and playing - so we got them Clayface and Titan Joker this year - i'm blown away at the sheer size and articulation of these. If you're familiar with the Marvel Diamond Select line, where Abomination, Juggernaut and others are a full foot tall, weigh nearly 3 lbs...then you have a baseline. These new ones are massive - Clayface is nearly 5 lbs and 18" tall - just enormous:
These just are a few of the things we've expanded on or gotten into this year. The model painting is going to require some additional investment - we have good paints (army painter) but our brushes aren't going to cut it long term.
So, what traditions or new discoveries have you found?
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