Our advent calendar 2014

I can’t remember where I saw the idea
to make a photo advent calendar,
but I knew I wanted to right away.
A way to look back over the year?
So fun.

Even more fun now that Danny and I are in the same place.
For 8 months out of the year we were on separate coasts.
I knew I could just go through Instagram and find photos for our year,
and used Social Print Studio, a great way to easily print Instagram photos.

I picked out the photos and Danny hadn’t seen them yet.
When they arrived, I already had an idea what I wanted on the backs,
and I was hoping they weren’t glossy.

They were glossy,
meaning,
no using watercolor paints.

So I just had to use paper.
I have TONS of graph paper from some project I’m sure I wanted to do years ago.
It actually made it easier to cut the pieces the right size; I just did 15 squares by 15 squares.

I cut 24 of them then worked on a design..

Ideas for the finished product
Ideas for the finished product
First, numbers
First, numbers
Gotta do 24 of those!
Gotta do 24 of those!
Then painting green around the edges
Then painting green around the edges
Gotta do 24 of those!
Gotta do 24 of those!
New idea: Add some black around it, then some gold.
New idea: Add some black around it, then some gold.

Surprisingly, it took a while.
Then I went through the pictures to put them into order,
Writing the numbers on the back,
so Danny could help me glue the backings on.
He’s a trooper and I’m glad he helped.

He also helped set up the yarn to clip all the pictures to.
I think it turned out pretty great.

All hung up :)
All hung up 🙂

We’ve been having fun revealing one each day.

7 days in :)
7 days in 🙂
What it looks like today. Almost there!
What it looks like today. Almost there!

 

I think we’ll do this every year 🙂

Do you have any fun DIY Christmas stuff I should know about?
We’re always looking for new traditions to make 🙂

KE

20141224-132714.jpg

2 thoughts on “Our advent calendar 2014

    1. I do things in chunks. And yeah, I love being a crafter too! I’m working on a new design for the blog that will focus on me as a maker, not just as a writer, so I can include more fun stuff. I don’t know where you find the time to blog about all the stuff you do! Still trying to get better at that! Thanks for cheering me on 🙂

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Close