Sweet Little Stocking {Advent Calender}

Are you all ready for the Christmas countdown?  I can't believe its almost here.

My girls are ready...Ally keeps asking me if tomorrow is the day she gets to start finding her surprises.  Yay!!  Only two days now!

I'm so excited about our advent calender this year.  It's was SO super easy to make and simply adorable I think!

Last year we had a really fun ladder advent with buckets that I didn't think could be matched, but this one turned out pretty fun too.

All I did was add stockings to the ladder instead of the buckets.  I got the set of homemade stockings from here.  I love them and think there will be a lot of uses for them throughout the years.

I used twine and small clothespins to fasten the stockings to the ladder.  It was super easy!

And then I added a variety of fun treats and goodies inside for the girls to have fun with.

Here's some {overload again!} pictures I took of it.  Happy December!

Linking up with these parties

as always

DIY Advent Ladder

Ever since the Christmas projects came into bloggy land this year I have been obsessed with all of the GORGEOUS advent calenders out there.  And I have been determined that I would make one this year  
no matter what!!

So here I am on the very LAST day I can post this project, posting away!
{If you know me at all, you know that I am quite a procrastinator and a perfectionist with projects!!
I never can seem to get everything good enough to post.} 

In the past two weeks, I've had about ten ideas for how I wanted to make my advent calender, and even started two or three of them.  But it seems like I kept being out of one or two items needed for the projects, so I never quite finished any of them.

Last week I was browsing through one of my favorite blogs and found this post and I was totally sold.

I dropped all former advent projects and decided to take this one on.  Since I had an old ladder I had been waiting to use for some time now, I couldn't help but fall in love with Lemonade Makin' Mama's darling ladder calender!

So here's MY version and I just LOVE how it turned out.  Can't wait to share it with you!

I took an old ladder and tied some cute little favor buckets to it...and put stickers on for the numbers.
Then I added some flair with burlap bows and some cranberries.
Now I am trying to decide whether I should add tissue paper to hide the little gifts inside!!  I think I will!  The last five buckets have to sit at the bottom of the ladder since there are no rungs for them to hang on.  I kind of like how they look though too.

Each bucket has either a small gift or a piece of paper in it (or all of them will eventually!) with a fun Christmas activity for us to do written on it.  

I just LOVE it!!  And I think the burlap and cranberries really helped
to finish it off.  It was super easy too, and not really that expensive either.

Don't ya love it?  I hope you are having fun with your advent calenders too!
Happy December and countdown to Christmas!