My sister-in-law, Caitie, and I decided we each wanted to make our own Advent Calendar this year. We gathered ideas from Pinterest and planned out what we wanted to make. Caitie had some Christmas fabric and I had some felt. We knew we wanted a large calendar so we decided on 21.5” x 51” for our dimensions.  Here is what we did to create our calendar:

1.       Cut 4.5 inch squares from the fabric and 4 inch squares from the felt for our pockets.

2.        Lay out squares (so we could s...

I was so excited to decorate my house this year for Christmas. We moved into our new house in the spring of 2013 and I now have a banister and a fireplace mantel that I got to decorate. I took to Pinterest to get ideas of how I wanted the banister to look. I decided I wanted to put swags on the railing, so this is what I did:

We are lucky enough to have several types of evergreen trees and bushes in our yard, but you can get the same materials from your local nursery. I went out and cut my e...