One of my goals for this holiday season was to make an advent calendar. I had seen a burlap one from Pottery Barn that I really liked, but it was more than I wanted to pay even on clearance and it was very very large, larger than I prefer. We don't have a lot of wall space in this house so I wanted something to fit on a door. I also wanted to do a kind of Jesse Tree/Advent Calendar hybrid. My plan was to work on this over Thanksgiving weekend. But Clara came and so we were a little busy that weekend. I finally finished it this weekend and I just did the calendar and not the Jesse Tree ornaments I had planned to do. It is not perfect, which bugs me, but it came out mostly how I wanted it to. And I was pretty satisfied with how the embroidery of the numbers came out and I really like the burlap look. This year we did some advent activities even though the calendar wasn't ready, so I really look forward to being able to implement the entire thing next year.
Friday, January 13, 2012
No Longer Advent
One of my goals for this holiday season was to make an advent calendar. I had seen a burlap one from Pottery Barn that I really liked, but it was more than I wanted to pay even on clearance and it was very very large, larger than I prefer. We don't have a lot of wall space in this house so I wanted something to fit on a door. I also wanted to do a kind of Jesse Tree/Advent Calendar hybrid. My plan was to work on this over Thanksgiving weekend. But Clara came and so we were a little busy that weekend. I finally finished it this weekend and I just did the calendar and not the Jesse Tree ornaments I had planned to do. It is not perfect, which bugs me, but it came out mostly how I wanted it to. And I was pretty satisfied with how the embroidery of the numbers came out and I really like the burlap look. This year we did some advent activities even though the calendar wasn't ready, so I really look forward to being able to implement the entire thing next year.
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