(I always made one for my own boys and loved the way their faces lit up with pleasure every morning in December.)
Having 2 grandies means 48 parcels! I try to vary homemade and bought, sensible and fun things. And of course I try to keep the cost down! So I start hunting around early. (And end in a rush!)
Girlie things are easy - scrunchies and hairclips are great fillers. Boy things aren't so easy, so I have to be on the look-out. The fun part for me is in the hunting and making, and that no other kids have a calender like it.
Yesterday I finished girlie parcel no 1! Warm, alpaca wool socks to keep little J's feet snug on cold winter days.
The 2009 calender rush is officially opened
The 2009 calender rush is officially opened 
Hi Anne-Lise--I have not done the advent calendar the way you are doing it--my kids just had the paper ones where you opened a window each day to a saying--and we did the stocking thing--sometimes I have done the 12 days of Christmas with them--like they (or a girl friend) would get say a pack of gum that had 8 sticks to it for the 8th day--pencils might me for day 10--I love shopping for those gifts and for stocking stuffers---have fun with your Hunt, tooo---hugs, Di
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