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snowy weekend

Bird Advent Calendar

Posted on December 2, 2011 by ilsahan

I have trouble not buying an advent calendar when I see one and I already have way too many, but I had to make another.

This latest one is fun because you can fill all the drawers with presents. The tree came as plain wood that I painted white and then drew on it with a sharpie.

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Last week at the Feed n’ Seed store there was a little antique holiday sale section off in the corner and right away I recognized a bunch of old fashioned ornaments for sale – just like the kind my Oma has – the vintage ones in metallic blue, pink and yellow with stencilled flocking. Oma also had a collection of those glittery cardboard Christmas village houses with the cellophane windows that the lights shine through. So when I saw the vintage ornaments and houses at the Feed n’ Seed I had to get them. I made a wintery forrest out of sticks behind the houses in honor of the skeleton trees in Minnesota. I think I might add some crows flying in the sky above them too so that it’s even spookier.