Christmas Tree Craziness

I have waited to post this blog, in order to minimize spoiling the surprise for our family members, but the last few are in the mail today. What, you might ask, has been sending me to the craft store once a day, has been monopolizing Sadie's nap time, and has taken over our kitchen counter? Well, our relief society had a craft project to make advent calendars shaped like trees from matchboxes, and I guess you could say I got a little carried away. Over 300 boxes (I used party favor boxes like you get at weddings), 13 trees later, and 900 pieces of chocolate later (I also put slips of paper with Christmas activities for each day in ours), Chris is grateful to see this project ending, and to be getting a kitchen table back. I have been a little decopauge crazy the last two months (that is a whole different post completely), and I think that I might have finally gotten my fill of it. Here is how they turned out:

Here is my little 'forest.' Each tree is unique.


Anyone interested in instructions on how to make your own advent tree, check out my sister's blog 12 days of Christmas Gifts. They are day number 8, and all twelve days are now posted!