The craft of the day was an advent calendar!  I didn’t get it done by the first, but finally took the time to get it done today, so at least we get to enjoy it for most of the month 🙂 I love how it turned out 🙂

the 24 days up to Christmas!

I started with the antique cubby that I got on a trade from a friend.  There just happened to be 24 “holes” so the first thing that came to my mind was advent calendar!

I started with a random bag of wooden “blocks” that I found at the craft store.  I mod podged pages of old books, music and hymnals…

Then I painted the numbers on and “aged” the surfaces and edges with an ink pad to make it look even older…

And now I know exactly how many shopping days I have left ’til Christmas…Yikes!!!!

Oh, and Lilly wants to get the credit she deserves for helping me with the entire thing…

Is she not the cutest thing ever???