These are just beautiful … thank you!

This is so cool Emily and a great use for all those trinkets and scraps that add up in the craft bin. I suppose you could put a little sticky note behind each card with either an activity written on it or pointing to a small gift or piece of sweet to unwrap as an advent calendar or just leave as is and enjoy the decoration. This is sweet. Thank you for being so generous.

Those are so pretty…so do you add a new number everyday, or do you put one away? Not sure how it works because it is so gorgeous as is, that I would want to keep the display up the whole season

I love this project and I have wanted to do something similar myself for a while! Yours turned out beautiful

What font did you use for the tags? Love it!

Hi Emily…could you explain how the actual board was made also? (Where you found the fabric and pins for it) I love it!! Thanks!

This is FANTASTIC! I love all the little items, but I literally swooned out loud over that tiny paper chain! It is so adorable! Thank you for the wonderful download. You are too, too generous!

I love this!! I did something very similar last year: http://sunshineontheinside.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-countdown-1.html

The font you used is beautiful!! It’s all so festive.

I LOVE what you created here. Such beautiful tag decorations…I don’t know why, but tiny things seem even cuter to me. Thanks for sharing.

I just printed the tags! Can’t wait to get the rest of the things that I need on my lunch break (a board and pins).

I have mini ornaments from the dollar store. My plan is to pin the numbers to the board and add an ornament each day.

Thank you!!

Awesome! I was just trying to create something like this and getting frustrated Thank you!

Have seen similar projects this year and been wanting to do it myself…I might just have to do it now. Thanks for the inspiration!!! Merry Christmas to you and yours:)

beautiful! Thank you!!

I just finished an advent calendar last night with a similar idea to yours of just hanging it to count down the days…Mine’s not nearly as fancy as yours though! Love the uniqueness of each day’s embellishments.

This is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!

Thank you so much! I’m going to try to make this tonight…and will make one for my mom—she will be thrilled!

Thank you!!!!!

Oh I love this! Printing now! Did you make your linen bulletin board? Do you have a tutorial on that? I must make that!

These tags are beautiful & I love how your countdown turned out!
Cheers!

Now do you move the trinkets to the tree to “mark off” that day? Or just leave it out as decor?

Great job Emily! This turned out fantastic!
-Shayna

WoW! What a fantastic idea, looks so, so beautiful x x x

J’adore!! I like every tags, especially the one with the paper banner “un petit cadeau”, no.4. I like it when you have french words in your craft. I’m from Montreal (Quebec, Canada) and I speak french, but I read every single post of your blog and enjoy it very much. I love every thing you made!!

oh emily, once again you have out done yourself.
i just started working on mine. i am trying to make each ornament or trinket something i have loved this year. a few examples are a piece of chevron fabric. a striped drinking straw (cut down a bit), baby foot prints ( i had my 3rd little one this year), a few little baby wreaths ( my 4 yr old helped me make out of washi tape), of course a pair of faux antlers made from sticks), and a few of my favorite versus and sayings ( of course using stamps and pretty font writing). i hope to make one each year that reminds me of my amazing life.
love your blog and look forward to reading it everyday. all the best to you.

This is so Victoria Magazine, beautiful! I’m glad they brought back the magazine. Thanks for sharing.

It’s a very cute look! Thanks for sharing!

What size is the board? I love this and all of your helpful suggestions. I want to jump on this one tonight. I already have the linen fabric and the T-pins so I am on my way. I have been wanting to do one of these, just because I think they are so festive looking. I will not be using mine to count, but leaving as is. Thanks!

Thanks so much for the freebie! I was just trying to come up with an idea for an advent calendar, and the tags are perfect! I’ll just write an activity for each day on the back of the tag. So fun!

Each day you could also transfer that ornament to the tree, but then your display wouldn’t be nearly as cute at the end! But most of those decorations could double as ornaments.

Beautiful tags! Thanks for sharing!

You are officially the coolest lady on the planet! Love this idea!!

I absolutely LOVE this!!!! Thank you for sharing!!!:)

LOVE this, Emily!! I’ve already printed my tags onto brown kraft paper, and will be mounting them on cool board I already have (kind of a woven, natural grass type bulletin board) with a cool black frame. Can’t want to find 25 things around the house to add to the tags… THANK YOU!

Thank you so much! My kids and I had a blast picking out tiny embellishments at the craft store last night.

You are the best!

Thanks for sharing your fun idea for a Christmas Countdown.

You’re the cutest, craftiest person ever!!! Thanks so much!!

Hey Emily! Just wondering where you found the deer ornament??

Thanks for the lovely tags, i will use them in my dec.daily

Absolutely LOVE THIS.
Can you tell me how big the cork board is and did you pad the cork board with batting?
Thanks for your inspiration.

This is such a pretty advent calendar/idea! . At first glance, I assumed it was a Jesse Tree but I don’t think it is after looking more closely at the ornaments. A Jesse tree is similar in that there is an ornament for each day as we countdown, but the ornament symbolizes a bible story and the story of Jesus Christ. There is a Jesse tree book that serves as the guide with an adult and children’s lesson and bible reading for each ornament. My kids are 2 1/2 and 5, and though my 2 yr old quickly looses interest in the longer readings, she loves the ornament and the story summary and my 5 year old loves every second of the whole Jesse Tree experience. We put the ornament of the day into a gift bag each night to be opened after the reading and hung on the Jesse tree.

oh, i saw this on nesting place and had to click over to check it out.

absolute love for your craftiness!

so glad to have found you.

I just love this calendar!! I made one this past Sunday and I am filling in the numbers daily. It is so much fun to think about what I will come up with for the next day. It makes me look for inspiration in every little nook & cranny of the house.

Thanks for all your cleverness!!

I made this over the past weekend. Thank you so much for the lovely idea and the inspiration. I made three matching sets for me and my sisters as Christmas gifts. I was able to find so many scraps in my craft supply, so this project was (almost) free! And since I had different materials than you did – it was a good way to stretch my creativity – although I borrowed lots of your brilliant ideas too I have to say, that the reindeer is probably my favorite! Hope your family had a Merry Christmas!

So, this is pretty funny to me because I just went to Hobby Lobby for the first time this month and I walked away with knobs, polka dot wrapping paper and tissue paper, and a W that came from the same spot as your &. Another funny thing, I consider my style very much like yours except that I have splashes of color everywhere. When I read your blog I long for neutral rooms! Grass is always greener!