Thank you so much for showing your process and for not being an amazing draw-er and for saying not to be afraid of cutting fabric. I’m such a silly saver CHICKEN when it comes to the best fabrics and supplies and it’s totally ridiculous. I’m working on it. Also working on letting myself draw despite not being a draw-er.

Also, also, and then some: We never had “get a treat everyday” advent calendars as a kid, we had a felt tree on a burlap background (burlap, the linen of the 70s!) with ric-rack garlands and hooks from hooks and eyes sewn on. Each day, we could hang one (specific! numbered! the same sequence every year because kids love ritual!) ornament on, according to the chart. My mother had made all of the ornaments from “baker’s clay” – flour/salt dough. Sadly, the ornaments died a moldy death a few years ago, but at the same time, I found out that my mother had actually made TWO of the calendars (including all of the , so my brother and I would each have one when we grew up and left the house.

All that means, rock on with your gorgeous tree.