Our holiday season got a bit of a late start after the weather kept our house without power for five days. It was hard to come home from Thanksgiving holiday to a house without electricity, when all I wanted was to get life back on track. November and December are already busy months with all the extra things holiday related. I was not thrilled when the ice hit. Nevertheless we made it through it and now just have a yard of trees that have to be trimmed. ugh.
Now on to the reason I am writing. The advent calendar I made this year... I used a tree limb from one of the many we have picked up in our yard and will be picking up for quite some time. I just used a little hand saw to cut it.
I needed the advent calendar to come together quickly so that we could use it. Most of the decisions I made were based on time. I was about 7 days late but my oldest is still loving it and doesn't care too much that it wasn't there on day one. I picked up a few premade felt stockings, made a couple really quick fabric bags (maybe I will make a video tutorial on these) and used my silhouette to cut out some paper boxes, I even used a little jar that I had and some paper bags. Then I just tied them all up with bakers twine and this year the advent calendar is complete.
I didn't number the bags simply because of lack of time. My son actually likes it this way because I have let him pick the one he wants to open that day. Kind of defeats the purpose of the "calendar" part if there isn't days on them but it still does it's job of getting him excited every morning when he gets to open a new package. The best part of Christmas to me is that childhood excitement. Re-living it through my children is one of the best things about Christmas time to me.
