Christmas Challenge#49: Advent Calendar

Our Third Advent Calendar was such a fun treat to have over Advent. I loved taking a carob bear out everyday and some tea and sitting down to enjoy it was the best. The calendar was hangging on our bedroom door which gave a fun jingly sound everytime the door was opened and closed because I had quite a few bells on the bags. 

I simply tied some tinsel to the door and then used fun pegs to attach each bag to the tinsel, this worked really well, none of them fell of!

Many nights we had our advent treat whilst putting together a Christmas Puzzle which was the best!

So I will leave you this time with a few close ups :)

Christmas Challenge #26: Advent Calendar, It's Done!

Be warned this post is photo heavy! I just couldn't resist, I LOVE how this turned out!!!

My only small dilemma is the fact that you can see what chocolates are inside I may just have to  wrap them up in some white paper. I like there to be an element of surprise as to exactly what is inside. But other than that I love it!!

Christmas Challenge #24: Advent calendar

So I have finished this Advent Calendar and so far I am loving how its turned out!

Although it took a while to weed all of those numbers Im happy that I did, because this will be an advent calendar that we use for years to come. In the past I have used paper and it has ended up in the bin after a lot of crumpling and ripping.

 I love that the black has a touch of glitter but not so much that my boys will complain ;)

At this point I'm still a little undecided as to who's advent calendar this will be, an adults one or a kids  one, hmmmm??

Christmas Challenge: Advent Calendar #23

So I have begun an advent calendar but it has been taking me a while to finish. So I may be sharing my progress over the next few posts.

 I started out by buying 100 of these 4x6 muslin bags from amazon. I figure I will probably make two advent calendars out of these. There are a tonne of ways you could number these bags, you could screen print, paint, add paper or embroider, appliqué or even stamp them. I decided to get some black glitter heat transfer vinyl from silhouette and cut the numbers with my silhouette cameo. Its the first time I've ever used heat transfer vinyl and I'm really happy with how it turned out- I think I may even make some t-shirts with it!

I'm loving the size of these muslin bags too I feel like they could have all kinds of things inside of them or even multiple things!