Happiness is…Giving…Advent Calendar from The Foley Family, Unedited

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Hi there BRB readers!!

I’m Kristine, and I blog over at The Foley Fam {unedited}.

The Christmas Season is one of my favorite times of year! It’s such a magical time of year and it’s also known as “the busiest time of year”. That hold true over here at The Foley Fam household.

Last year was no exception.

With that said I made up the fun idea/project below:

Our “Happiness is… Giving” Advent Calendar of Sorts

I’ve done our Summer and Fall Bucket Lists projects before, but wanted something to hang in our home instead.

Not only did the list include our “Winter Bucket List,” but sprinkled in were Random Acts of Kindness we did to really CELEBRATE the Season, and REMIND us of WHY we celebrate it.

Here’s some Random Acts of Kindness we did last year, and hope to do this year as well.

Serve food at a local Soup Kitchen

Pay for the meal of a person behind us in the Drive-thru

Bring Poinsettias to the hospital

Bring goodies to our local Police and Fire Departments

Make hair pretties for our local Women’s Shelter

Participate in the Angel Tree program

Send goodies to the Soldiers thru Operation Shoebox

Giving flowers to a mom at the grocery store

Compliments to everyone and anyone!!

I
would love to hear what Random Acts of Kindness you have done, that we can add to our list this year!

EASY Steps on how to make your very own!

Gather supplies:

Picture Frame

Scrapbooking Paper

Adhesive

Ribbon

Clothespins

Sharpie Marker

Trimmer/Scissors

I used a
coordinating line of papers and paper embellishments from Cosmo Cricket
to decorate my frame base. Cut and trim your paper to fit the picture
holes of your frame. I needed (4) 4×6 “pictures” Embellish papers as you
wish. For my “title” I used a matching journal card with the perfect
prompt! Under Happiness is… I put “giving” with stickers (sorry no
picture with the word).

After placing
your paper into the frame, adhere ribbon to the back of the frame. I
did (3) strips to fit my clothespins, since there are more than 25. I
just used good ole’ fashion tape (wink).

Close up of
clothespins hanging – I have the activities on the two outter ribbon,
and as we complete each one they get moved to the center ribbon.

Close up of hanging frame

And another of the finished product

I hope you not only make one for your own family, but are inspired to go out and DO
this Christmas Season. If you’re an over-achiever feel free to make it a year long thing! #letsdothis

If you make one, please comment with your link
below! I would love to see it, and feature you!

Thanks to Melanie for hosting such a fun series, and for letting me join in the fun! Would love it if you came over and partied it up with us over at our casa too!

Happy Day lovely readers!

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Comments

Cranberry Morning says

July 7, 2012 at 1:32 pm

That is a great idea! I’d say that my most recent act of kindness is when I didn’t let my 124 pound German Shepherd outdoors when a stray Pomeranian appeared in our backyard, barking its little head off. Okay, I can see I need to work on random acts of kindness. And I do like this clothes pin idea.