Originally posted December 2009.
Our new advent calendar is done! I think it turned out cute and was a joint effort between Derrick and I. He cut out the wood and metal for me and I painted the wood, then mod podged matching paper to it. The numbers were cut out on my Cricut as well as the circles for inside the candy tins. I found my candy tins at Joann's in the wedding section. You can buy 25 of them in a tote for $19.99, but I had a 50% coupon so it made it much more affordable. I glued magnets on the back of each one, filled the tins with candy and we were done. The kids like their calendar and now all I need to do is hang it up!
That looks a lot like the one my mom made for my sister. So cute! I was totally going to make one but I got all craftied out. I bought one instead... lame, I know.
ReplyDeleteThat is sooo cute!! Maybe after Christmas I will make an advent calendar when everything goes on sale. We did Christmas chains with different Christmas scrapbook paper & the one from the Friend. I'm thinking of doing another one but we'll see. Yours is sooooo cute!!
ReplyDeleteI love this idea! We don't celebrate Christmas, but I'm going to try and think of another way to do something like this-- it's too cute!
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