Counting days until Xmas

DIY : A simple & poetic advent calendar

Supermarkets released toys and chocolates, Virgile sings « Jingle Bells » while returning from school, which offers us to order a tree – I can hear Christmas quickly approaching.

This year, I want a homemade Christmas with simple materials and geometric patterns, which bases can be reused once December is passed. And to start my Christmas decoration, I prepared a DIY Advent calendar for my boys, it’s simple to do but airy and poetic.  It’s a tree branch on hanging blooming colored sweets that make you want to pick them. Would you like to make it too?

To make your advent calendar, you need:

24 small surprises

IKEA SITTNING paper napkins in yellow/grey, pink/grey and grey patterned

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70312102/

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90312101/

nylon thread

a roll of masking tape

packing paper

support for suspending, I used an arbutus tree branch from my garden

an A4 sheet of self-adhesive sticker paper for printer

template of stickers numbers to count down the days until Christmas downloadable here :

How to do?

Download the template, print your sticker sheet and cut them

pack 24 gifts in wrapping paper that you roll into a ball

wrap each ball in a paper napkin and tighten it with the masking-tape, attach a length of nylon thread to it

don’t forget to place a sticker on each surprise

hang your balls to your branch – and voila, your own Advent calendar made with love, a few bucks and little time!

It only remains to decorate your home to greet the long bearded gentleman in red coat.

This post was written by Daphné