Time to hang those advent calendars

Hello and happy Monday. I am not at work today as we have  enjoyed a long weekend away at none other than the Winter Wonderland at Centre Parcs in Longleat. We went to celebrate our SIL's birthday and for us to spend some precious family time together. There were 7 in our party and even Bear my son's dog joined us. We had a really brilliant time, it was so good to spend 4 days with our children, their partners, our darling Daisy and Bear. I need to sort through my photos and I will be back to share some very soon together with a couple of posts.
Daisy had an appointment with the Man in the red suit, which I think Nanna was the most excited about, on Saturday afternoon......LOL....she was not impressed with Santa and hung onto me for dear life!

It's time today to get our advent calendars hung up. Tomorrow is none other than December 1st and my Christmas countdown will begin in earnest. As I have done every year I have bought my daughter and son their's and also one for little Daisy.
I like the traditional German ones but these are the ones I have bought for my babies.

Below is Daisy's, she watches the snowman all year round and this is sure to be a hit.  Incidentally I add glitter to all their calendars before I give them...Christmas memories of mine again. These photos are all pre glittered.

My daughter's

My son's

and mine...I had ones like this for my 1960s  childhood....I'm so glad that they are reproducing these vintage advent calanders.

I just adore these cute images.......I can be transported straight back to 1966....awwwwhh

I shall be searching for window Number 1 today.

My card today is a cute but vintage inspired one. I coloured up the angel blonde just like my darling Daisy Jane using one of my new Lili of the Valley Christmas stamps......I adore their Christmas images. I used Promarkers, highlighting with some Prismacolor pencil.

I added some Tim Holtz stamped snowflakes, which I gold embossed. I used a Joanne sheen bell die cut and Whimsy snowflake and sentiment. The stitched frame is by Memory Box, I love this die. I added some angel ribbon from my stash.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Simon Says stamp Wednesday anything goes
Simon says stamp work it Wednesday 2/3 holiday/Christmas 
Papertake Weekly take your pick I chose the technique theme, glitter it up.
Sweet stamping sparkle and shine
Pixie's snippets playground #205 I have used snippets of card for the snowflakes
Noor UK anything goes
Crafting for all seasons brr it's cold outside
Passion for Promarkers Christmas is coming
Creative card crew cold outside
Cute card Thursday fairies and angels
Winter wonderland sparkle and bling
Crafty Ribbons frosty Christmas
Crafty hazelnut use die cuts or punches
Christmas card challenges anything goes #52

I'll let you know what I found behind window number 1...will I ever grow up?...no I don't think so, not when it comes to the magic of Christmas.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x