Advent Activity Calendar Complete!

Alright, so I dedicated my day to this little project. Those who are crafty could have mastered this in about 2 hours, I'm sure, but I had to put my whole day aside.

BUT...

IT IS DONE!


So, to reiterate my post a little while ago, I saw this on a lovely blog, and I wanted to do something similar (aka exactly the same).

This is where I was several days ago:

I organized everything on a Business Card template in Pages, so I didn't have to muss around with such nonsense like cells, or boxes or whatever they are all called. This gave me symmetry. Something I like.

Then I attacked them with a papercutter and a scrapbooking Corner Edger. It made my corners very pretty and not so homemade looking.

Aren't they pretty now?

Then I took number 3 coin envelopes and did minor decorating on each one, marking the advent days on each one.

I went through our personal calendar, and figured out which activities would be best each day. As we only have my husband's boy 1/2 the time, I wanted to make sure he got to take part in some of the ones I think he'd find most memorable. Some of the events were time based and only landed on certain dates (like the LIVE Bethlehem we wanted to take part of this year where a church uses like people/animals/sets to relive the events of Christmas), so I didn't have much of an option as to who got to all take part in it. And other activities that were small (unwrap a special ornament and put it on the tree), could land on days where we had a family gathering planned, or a Christmas concert scheduled, or the like.

Then I loaded up the envelopes, and I tossed them into my favourite mexican bowl. I don't have a fancy display for the cards, and I'm not crafty enough to sew one, or create one. So I figured this would be good enough!

And now....we wait. I'm hoping the kids enjoy it. I think it'll be fun, and create memories, and give lots of photo opportunities. As I look back at my picture collections, it makes me sad that 1) I haven't taken enough pictures and 2) the kids are growing up way too quickly.

But that's my attempt at the advent calendar. I hope that you can gleam some of your own ideas off of it, and have some fun with it!