Christmas is in the Air!!!

December 13, 2012 By 2 Comments

Ahhhhh Christmas my favorite time of year! Although this year in Sunny Florida I could use some cooler weather. It’s still in the 80′s in South Florida which makes me a little sad :( . I prefer to be in at least 60 degree weather around this time. At least it’s not snowing though!!! Wouldn’t that be interesting if it was snowing in South Florida. I think it did one time in 1977. I thought there was another time that it snowed in Miami sometime in the 80′s but I can’t find that information so I am just going to go with a yes because I think I remember it happening one time in 80′s but I was young so I could be wrong!!!

I am totally off subject with this whole post though. The reason for this post is to share how utterly talented my mom is. I can paper craft and scrapbook with the best of them but when it comes to floral arrangements or Christmas decorations that don’t require paper you might as well not even look at me. I am horrible at floral arrangements!

I have proof of how horrible I really am and I wanted to share with you how wonderful my mother is at making Christmas decorations with you. I am lucky that I have a mother that will come over and make Christmas decorations for me so that I have some Christmas decorations up in my home!

I did help a tiny bit with making this happen as I was the one that picked out the materials and purchased them because I thought for some reason that I would be able to put them together myself! Obviously that did not happen!

I have photos so that I can put all this in my December daily at the end of the week of course!

 


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Advent Calendar

December 2, 2012 By 1 Comment

I know I’m late in sharing my advent calendar procedure that I made with love for my two monster children! I had many complications this year with my advent calendar. I bought a calendar from Michaels that was shaped in a Christmas tree with little wooden boxes. It was adorable, until I decorated it!

I painted all the boxes had a great color scheme going and then the boxes would not go back in!!! I was so mad and frustrated with the whole thing.

So then I saw Monica Bradfor’s advent calendar and I thought it was a wonderful idea so I became inspired again!

I made little 2×2 pockets by trimming my cardstock to 3×4. I then scored at the ½ inch mark on either side and then at the 2 inch mark right down the middle. Next I embossed the cardstock with my wonderful little texture boutique and cut down the middle where the score lines meet. I then folded them and had little pockets.

I have these ancient stickers from creative memories that I used to number my little pockets. I purchased two 16×20 canvas’ and wrapped them in wrapping paper (the pretty foil wrapping paper). I glued the wrapping paper to back of the canvas so after this year if I decide that I don’t like these calendars I just have to remove the wrapping paper and I have two great canvas’ to play with.

My next step was to glue the pockets onto my wrapped canvas and create the titles for them. I used my cricut to cut the titles out in red vinyl! I didn’t have any transfer tape so I was stuck putting the titles on by hand but that was ok. It’s not meant to be absolutely perfect as I made them with love!

So there you have it my advent calendar catastrophe that I managed to somehow make right by December 1st. I threw a piece of candy in each pocket for now and I am sure I will come up with something else to put in them before the end of the month but for now the kids are very happy with their candy countdown   I mean their advent calendars! Please forgive me the pictures were taken late at night last night and I hung them up forgetting that my hallway does not have any natural lighting what so ever.

P.S. Here is the blog post that inspired me to make little pockets for my advent calendar. I wanted to share this with you because it gives you a step by step on how to make the pockets.

 


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