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.
Elizabeth, Your Stampin' Up! Demonstrator
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I always like advent wreaths, this is such a cool project. I agree with Stephanie, looks like I’d find it in a catalogue. Budgeting . . . as I recall in math class wasn’t there something called imaginary numbers? I would think those might come in handy . . . 🙂
This is GORGEOUS!!! Looks like it came directly from Pottery Barn 🙂
Isn’t it amazing how quickly projects can add up. I made cookie sheet advent calendars for two family members and myself two Christmas ago. By the time, I bought all the embellishments and paper I was amazed at how much I spent. Seeing them again this Christmas made it definitely worth the price. I’m sure your niece will adore this!
Very pretty!
Wow! What a great project, I love it. i am sure your niece will appreciate it.