Christmas Countdown {a.k.a Alexanders Advent Calendar}

First off, I have to say that this was one of the most time consuming, yet most fun projects I've done! November's project day we tried something new by offering a project for people to work on. I put together kits of the basics and those who wanted one just came with the rest of the items on their lists.

My cute friend Monique was the only one who finished hers that day. Everyone else was too indecisive {and chatty} to complete it, but that's fine by all. Visiting is half the fun.

I only got one good picture of Mo's calendar. It was already 6:30p or so by the time we decided to stop and go to dinner, so I hastily grabbed a few and two of the three were blurry; otherwise there would be many many more.

Ryan actually prefers her style to the one I made! What a great compliment, Mo!

Isn't it beautiful!?

Now, you get to suffer through obscene amounts of pictures of mine. First, pictures of some of my favorites. They took the most time, therefore, they're my favorites.
And then a nice side view.
And one of the bottom.

And one of Santa. I was so proud of him. He's from an old Christmas card that my thrifting friend Brooke found at an estate sale we hurried to a few weeks ago. I scanned him in, printed him out (2x) on cardstock and then layered a few features and added glitter. I LOVE him.

And what it will look like on Christmas Day.

Wasn't that fun? We used this tutorial by Teresa McFayden as inspiration and made them our own from there.