Christmas Advent Calendar - Stampin Up Decor Elements

I have been MIA this past week - life got in the way of stamping and a blogging. It was budget time at work (deadline is tomorrow). I have a hard enough time doing my personal budget never mind doing one for our department at work. It is done though - I like getting that off my plate each year. Speaking of budgets - it is official - I am broke - but in a good way. My trip to Italy has been paid for. I still have 3 months to wait but there is no turning back now and I can start to get excited.

This weekend I have made up for my lack of creativity. I have some classes coming up this Friday and Saturday. Everything has been cut, sorted and separated. I can't wait to show the ladies some new techniques.

Now what I am really excited about and spent most of my weekend working on. I remember when I went to Convention last year - the one "demonstration" that I oooohed and awwwwwed about was an Advent Calendar. I remember sitting beside my travel mate and roomie (Hi Jamilla - I finally made it - a year later!) and telling her - I have to try that. It isn't finished yet but I couldn't wait to show everyone (yes I am worse than a kid at Christmas). I need to adhere the boxes to the board and finish off the date numbers. There will be a cup hook that will go in the middle and the numbers are on Balsa Wood with a hole punched at the top to go on the cup hook. I also lost the dot on the exclamation point so need to fix that as well. I was contemplating teaching this as a class - but the cost factor and prep time is enormous. I am going to give this to my niece for her family. Each of the little boxes will have treats inside. I couldn't find the boxes that were used in the demo so I used ring boxes. No word of a lie - by the time this is finished (without treats), it will be over $100.00 to make. I am happy it turned out how I envisioned it. I will post the final picture when it is all done.



Off to bed to get ready for another week. Have a good one.