Fabric upcycle: make a chicken door stop
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To make this chicken door stop I used the template kindly offered by Bake and Sew. I adjusted the sizes in mine to make it a little larger by adding 4 cm on each …

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Recycling magazine: make a simple advent calendar

Submitted by on November 21, 2013 – 6:44 am2 Comments

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I am very proud of our advent calendar this year, which I made with my favourite recycling material: the hugely versatile magazine pages. I made 24 cones using the magazine pages, I printed some basic labels with the numbers 1 to 24 and cut them out; finally I attached them to the kitchen door in a tree shape.

I only have to fill them up with goodies and Christmas messages in time for the 1st of December.

I made a PDF printable of the labels; click here for your Christmas advent calendar labels 1-24.

Check out more advent calendar ideas and Christmas decoration over at Thinly Spread, her Festive Friday collection is very inspiring!

 

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