Homemade Advent Calendar 2011

I have been searching for a way to make Payton an advent calendar for awhile now. I finally decided, oh- well maybe I will wait till next year. Until yesterday, after reading my sister’s post, I decided to go ahead and make us one for this year! I actually didn’t make it until today.

I used a punch to make the number labels.. or whatever you call it.

These are the ones I used.

I have a bunch of card stock and Christmas scrapbooking paper, so I just used those.

And then I hand wrote the numbers.

I went to Hobby Lobby with the intentions of buying the same ones Marla bought, but then I wondered over to the isle with all the gift bags and found these.

So, then I used sticky roll thing to put the numbers on the bag. Folded the bag over a little, then poked a whole, then added the ribbon.

I bought this ribbon awhile back

The ribbon that the clothes pins and bags are hanging on I got at Hobby Lobby. I thought it would kind of go with my paper that I used for the numbers.

Somebody was REALLY excited!!! Oh and that is blue marker all over her face.

Stuffed with all sorts of different things. I sort of have a problem, and buy lots of stuff while I am out and about.. well the “problem” I have sort of came in handy today. I used lots of things that I have already bought and not used yet. Things like lip gloss, nail polish, stickers, crafts, etc. I still need to get a few things to put in them. I plan to bake and do different things with her throughout the month. But, I didn’t know which days would be “good” to do those things, so I didn’t stuff them in her bags. But, she is excited and call them her gifts. She knows that every morning after she wakes up we can open a bag. Then, when they are all gone… Santa will come and it will be Jesus Birthday!!