Sunday 23 November 2014

Homemade Advent Calendars

Hey guys!

As it's nearly December everyone is getting their advent calendars sorted whether that be a chocolate one, a beauty one, a nativity scene one or even a toy based one, and so I thought it would be nice to share some ideas about homemade calendars :)

I heard the cutest story the other day about a guy who made his girlfriend an advent calendar of all her favourite things, and then on day 25 she opened her little box and there was an engagement ring inside. Is that not the cutest thing ever? Melted my little romantic heart.

There are so many different ways you can make an advent calendar:

You could buy the little houses with 24 doors like this one from Next:



These are so cute and you can fill each door with something you love. The only issue with these is it that the boxes are quite small, so you'd have to think really hard about what you could fit inside! But if you want to fill them with little chocolates or something like that, they are perfect! 


I love the idea of getting 24 little presents and wrapping one up for each day, though they can get quite pricey! I had a friend in high school whose grandparents would make her one of these each year and they would wrap up jumpers, shoes, make-up, chocolate, everything, it looked so good! You could buy different beauty products, or your favourite sweets or anything you wanted!


I was inspired to find a photo of this after my friend Siobhan had her birthday a few weeks ago. She used to live with her boyfriend but they had to move apart for uni and now they only get to see each other at weekends, so for her birthday he got a jar and wrapped up 52 date ideas, one for each weekend until her next birthday. Is that not the cutest thing?! 

You could do something similar for an advent calendar, whether it be for a partner, a child or a friend. You could do so much with it! Something to do or somewhere to go each day until christmas, if you love lego it could be a challenge to build something every day until christmas, if you love photography it could be a challenge to take a photo of something everyday until christmas, for beauty it could be to try a different look each day, so many options! Such a good idea, and it can be as easy or as hard or as fun as you like!

What do you think, would you want to use one of these or would you buy an advent calendar ready made? (I've got a lego one this year, and I could not be more excited haha)

Love Amylou x

4 comments:

  1. omg the 52 date ideas in a jar is so cute!! and holy cow, your friend is lucky! her grandparents gave her so many gifts haha


    Jessica
    the.pyreflies.org

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  2. It's adorable isn't it! She was really lucky to get them! She might even still do, I was always a little bit jealous haha! xx

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  3. I am so jealous of you lego advent calendar sounds amazing! I love the idea of a homemade one too though!


    Lucy xx
    www.lulabelloves.com

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  4. I'm so excited to open it, i'm such a child! haha, yeah I thought about a homemade one too, I couldn't decide between that and lego, but lego won in the end! :) xx

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