My girls love their chocolate advent calendars each year, but I thought it would be nice to have a larger (colour coordinated lol) display for my kitchen bench to remind us how many days we have until Christmas. I created this with a mini clipboard (available from OfficeWorks for $2 or $3). Cover with scrapbooking paper and then decorate . Quick & easy. Each day I will just change over the numbers or perhaps I can give that responsibility to Miss Meg as she is always the first one up in our house.
I saw a cute shadow box with bells in it recently on Pinterest (my new favourite website - you have to check it out!) I made my own version with some gorgeous black & white photos I took of the girls last Christmas in their Santa hats. My thought is that this will be a decoration that will come out every year to remember my girls when they were so little.
I don't want to alarm anyone, but it is only 5 weeks til Christmas (and less than 2 weeks til I can break out the Christmas CD's).
Really enjoying being part of the family! Which, of course, we are!You are SO gifted creatively and your brain must be a collage of colour and texture and shapes!
ReplyDeleteThanks Aunty Fredwyn. Yes it is filled with all those things + a lot of useless song lyrics! Sadly, no room for new information at all lol
ReplyDeleteGorgeous idea Christy - u r so innovative! Pinterest rocks - so many wonderful ideas to peruse and of course pinch lol
ReplyDeleteThanks Tan - yes I absolutely LOVE Pinterest. It has inspired me to get my crafty groove back on (outside of traditional on the page scrapbooking).
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