{"id":36896,"date":"2017-10-31T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T23:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=36896"},"modified":"2017-10-06T16:33:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T21:33:19","slug":"diy-advent-calendar-revisited-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=36896","title":{"rendered":"DIY Advent Calendar – Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have little ones and you plan to make an advent calendar, then you just might like the one we showed you last November.\u00a0 In case you missed it, that’s our revisit for this month.\u00a0 This calendar is simple, inexpensive to make, and really cute.\u00a0 Little Miss loved it last year so much that I am putting it on repeat for this year.\u00a0 Does that make it a tradition?\u00a0 Enjoy the revisit.<\/p>\n

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Happy December, everyone!\u00a0 I am so excited for this month! \u00a0I am so thankful that Little Miss is home with us this year to celebrate Christmas, and she is loving all the sparkle and lights that I am putting up around the house. \u00a0We are coming up with some of our own traditions, and one that I wanted to start off with is an Advent calendar. \u00a0Little Miss isn’t the biggest fan of chocolate, so I didn’t want to buy a pre-made Advent calendar with chocolate behind every door. \u00a0I thought I would DIY something fun.<\/h3>\n

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I started out with a DIY chalkboard that I made a few years ago. \u00a0It was hanging by our side door but was removed when Yankee started building our new mudroom.\u00a0 (Details on that soon).\u00a0 I thought it would be the perfect base for the Advent calendar since I no longer had a place for it. \u00a0First thing I did was pull out my Silhouette Cameo <\/a>and cut out the words Merry Christmas in vinyl. \u00a0Do any of you have a Silhouette Cameo<\/a>? \u00a0I received it as a Christmas gift a few years ago. \u00a0I loved it and then had some issues and put it away due to frustration. \u00a0Well, I pulled it back out and got it fixed. The problem was minor, and now I am LOVING it and everything I can do with that little machine. \u00a0After I added the vinyl, I stretched some twine<\/a> and made four rows on the board. \u00a0I used a glue gun <\/a>to hold down the twine.\u00a0 Those rows of twine would be the base.<\/h3>\n

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When the base was ready, I needed to prepare something for each day. \u00a0Mom brought these cute little numbered hearts home from Europe, and each one had a colorful number on it.\u00a0 There were\u00a0 29 of them. \u00a0They were the perfect color and size. \u00a0I\u00a0ordered these little brown paper bags<\/a> on Amazon, and I glued the heart numbers onto the bag.<\/h3>\n

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I wanted something cute to hang the bags onto the twine, and I found these adorable mini clothespins at the Dollar Tree and bought a pack of trees and snowflakes.<\/h3>\n

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I took down a print that was hanging in this space and hung the Advent calendar up so that Little Miss can see it.\u00a0 We can open a numbered bag each morning. \u00a0I filled the bags with little treats or printed out an activity to do for the day. \u00a0You can see how Yankee loves technology in our house with The Nest<\/a> thermostat and our Amazon Echo <\/a>which I \u00a0LOVE.\u00a0 Each would be\u00a0an excellent gift idea, by the way.<\/h3>\n

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I added some branches that were cut from our tree and vintage Christmas postcards. \u00a0It adds a little festive touch to the area.<\/h3>\n

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So there you go…. our own DIY Advent Calendar. \u00a0This was so easy to make and you could pick up most of these things at a craft store and make to use this year.<\/h3>\n

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Cheers!<\/h3>\n

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If you have little ones and you plan to make an advent calendar, then you just might like the one we showed you last November.\u00a0 In case you missed it, that’s our revisit for this month.\u00a0 This calendar is simple, inexpensive to make, and really cute.\u00a0 Little Miss loved it last year so much that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36896"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36899,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36896\/revisions\/36899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}