Advent calender

In recent weeks I worked on my Advent calendar for Sep. The calendar is made ​​of toilet rolls (see also my first blogpost). In each toilet roll is a gift or a treat. For winter effect, I chose the colors: gray, white and black. Each creature/character has a little story. Can not wait until December the first!

Folded high-heeled shoes

Let me introduce....BootsJoost...my guestblogger. He's very good at folding. Look at those shoes...!!!
He send me a link Ku-Ku ORIGAMI so you can try this yourself.
Thanks Joost, hope to post much more of your foldings!

Stammetjes

These are reward stickers from a Dutch publishing house called Stam. When I was a teacher, I loved to stick the "stammetjes" in the exercise books of the children. There are "stammetjes" for each season like these for Saint Nicholas and Christmas.

Geertje Aalders

Yesterday, I visited Flavourites Live, a unique webshop event. My highlight was a meet & greet with Geertje Aalders She's a wonderful illustrator and paper artist!
I bought, of course, some paper designed by Geertje. 

Paper garland for Sinterklaas

This morning I made a paper garland for Sinterklaas. Sinterklaas is a traditional winter holiday figure still celebrated today in the Netherlands. He is celebrated annually on Saint Nicholas eve, 5 December.
Sinterklaas is an elderly, stately and serious man with white hair and a long, full beard. He wears a long red cape or chasuble over a traditional white bishop's alb and sometimes red stola, dons a red mitre, and holds a gold-coloured crosier, a long ceremonial shepherd's staff with a fancy curled top. He carries a big book that tells whether each individual child has been good or naughty in the past year. He traditionally rides a white gray. Although he is usually referred to as Sinterklaas he is also known as Goedheiligman or simply Sint.

I used paper from a free craft sheet for children provided by a Dutch supermarket called Albert Heijn.

Craft idea: tree of hearts

Today, I finished my "tree of hearts". I made it of scraps of paper. For the hearts I used a punch.

Folding christmas trees

I like folding. I know it's still november but look at this Christmas trees! It's easy to make. Follow the steps above. It's nice to make a lot of trees (that's why I post this now). If you make a hole in the top, you can hang them with fishing line. For example in the Christmas tree or on a branch or mobile. You can also use them for wrapping presents. I used wrapping paper from Blafre!
Send me a picture of your folded Christmas trees!