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Advent Calendars

The day after Halloween, Adri woke up and before she even said, “Good morning!” I heard, “Mom, there are only 29 days until my birthday! Then after my birthday there are 23 days until Christmas!” She’s got it alllll figured out! We’ve been working on our version of this project the past couple of nights, and finally finished it today.adventjenn.jpg

I purchased 24 kraft boxes from my local packaging store, and the two of us spent the first night painting the tops green and the bottoms red with Making Memories paint.adripaints.jpg

Once the paint dried, we glued rectangles of Basic Grey Figgy Pudding to the tops and created tags with white cardstock. We used a new Martha Stewart punch and the SU! ticket corner punch, stamped numbers with red ink, then tied the tags to the boxes with different ribbons.

I don’t know if we’ll tack the boxes to the wall like Ali Edwards, or E6000 magnets to the back and put them on the fridge.

We’ll see. . . . and we’ll see y’all tomorrow on the SCS homepage for tomorrow’s tutorial!

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6 Comments

  1. Posted November 15, 2007 at 10:18 pm | Permalink

    That is a wonderful project to do with your daughter! I sure you will all cherish for many years!

  2. Posted November 16, 2007 at 1:08 am | Permalink

    I love your version as well! These look like a lot of fun to make, and you did such a wonderful job!!

  3. Posted November 16, 2007 at 12:20 pm | Permalink

    LOVE this, Jenn — SOOOO cute!!!

  4. Elizabeth
    Posted November 16, 2007 at 4:33 pm | Permalink

    What will you put inside those little boxes? It’s cute!

  5. Posted November 17, 2007 at 1:50 am | Permalink

    This is so incredibly awesome!! I haven’t been to Ali’s site in awhile, so I had missed this. I LOVE your version and your helper is sooo cute! I need some help, can you send her over my way?!

  6. Alexandria
    Posted November 17, 2008 at 4:24 pm | Permalink

    “Kraft Boxes” What are those?

    Would I just go into like the post office or like a fed ex or kinkos and ask for Kraft Boxes?

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