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Girls love gifts – boys do too. That’s why today I want to show you another calendar apt for boys/men or others you want to make happy. It all depends on the selection of your paperboard. I chose three different ones. The green one looks a bit like a Christmas tree giving the impression of a little forest with 24 pyramids. In this case I’d line a large tray with wadding, place the “trees” and put some Christmas balls and stars in it. For the other two boxes I considered the favourite colours of the beneficiary. I’ll place them on a large silver tray (here I took a small one so that the boxes don’t look too lost) with a bright tea light in the middle and some fir sprigs in between. You’ll find the pattern for download here. In case you want to make boxes with corrugated cardboard I drew corrugation line. The pattern shows one half of the box and needs to be turned at its baseline when transferred to your cardboard. Cut out the pyramid and fold dashed line with a folding tool or your scissors. Therefore take one blade and tear the inner side of it along a ruler to score the cardboard lightly. Fold sides up to the left inner side of your box and the middle of the ball on top just to the other side.  Fold up all four sides after filling and close with a nice ribbon just a the bottom of the “ball”. Seperately packed sweets or samples of shower gel, shampoo or other wellness products will fill these boxes. If you like it really precious you may write down the day numbers with a gold- or silver colored pen. Otherwise you can still download numbers using the link of my previous post. If you attach them to the ribbon you may use the boxes further on supposed that you didn’t take Christmas paper.

Adventkalender - Advent calendar

Adventkalender - Advent calendar

There’s not even a month left before the advent season. That means a lot of work for me to get ready with all the advent calendars to be prepared. This year my proposal for a nice girly calendar is a white heart to be used as a card holder later on. The little gifts may be wrapped in many different ways. The fotos show a version with cornets and another one with two sorts of wrapped gifts. For the cornets you need to draw quadrants which are to be turned in over their tip and then fastened with glue. I chose a length of 5-6 inches for the cornet sides and fastened crumpled tissue paper on the inner edge of them. The tissue paper should mesure 12 x 8 inches. If you don’t have time to make the cornets then you may wrap typical Christmas sweets and accessories in wrapping paper and attach them to the heart. Numbers from 1 to 24 in blue and red can be downloaded here or bought in crafts stores. To both, cornets and gifts, I attached a knotted curly ribbon which I fixed between the double hearts originalley meant to hold cards or photos.
If you dispose of some space in your house or appartment or want to surprise someone not being really fond of hearts and pink you’re well advised with the advent calendar of branches. You need two of them with a size of about 2 yards and four smaller ones mesuring between 0.5 and 0.8 yards. Tie them together like a ladder with Christmas ribbons or thin manila rope and drive 6 nails into each of the smaller branches. The gifts will be attached to the nails with a ribbon loop. My calendar is assembled with small bags filled with sweets.
Decorate heart or branches with Christmas baubles, stars and other accessories. After Christmas the branches can be stored space-savingly when dismantled.