last year i had the urge to make an advent calendar. i thought it would make the holiday season so special for our little family. i envisioned kate waking up excited to look into that days gift for small trinket or a clue to that days events...
but after rushing to gather the supplies and being overwhelmed with ideas and underwhelmed by resources and time... I abandoned the project.
so when I stumbled upon this advent 'house' at the craft store I snatched it. it was ridiculously marked down in price and it was the only one like it.. and you all know how much i like it when there is not another one like. hurray for originality.
ok, i am super bummed i did not take before photos. in it's original state it was all cream colored with silver numbers on each door. plain jane.
from the moment i saw it i thought it would be awesome as a little brown stone type house...
i still need to paint the numbers on each window-door but overall i love how it turned out. perfectly imperfect. I can not wait to put the little prizes in each door. we have some special activities planned thru the holidays and i am thinking up clues.
like maybe a tiny lightbulb on a string necklace for the night we go christmas light driving or a tiny donkey for when we go out to Burnet to walk thru there Bethlehem village.
i am so thrilled I was able to pull this together right in time.the only problem is I have other advent calendar ideas...do you think this is something I could collect ?
