This is what I was working on, on Wednesday night, before Waldo.

An advent calendar. I’ve been wanting to make one for years. And this year I finally made one, though it was a little bit late when I started. Every year I have these grand ideas of sewing something up. But that hasn’t happened so far.

So this year, since I was already late, I thought I’d do something quickly with paper. They’re basically paper pouches like these from zakka life and didn’t really end up being quick seeing as there are TWENTY FOUR of them.

I made the design to fit four little pouches onto one sheet of paper.

Anyone want to make them too? Here’s a pdf of the pages.

I designed it so that if you can print borderless, it should take 3 cuts per page. Though if you’re like me, you can’t figure out borderless printing and will have to cut freaking 7 cuts. Thank goodness for paper trimmers. Just make sure all the grey boxes on the corners are showing when you print. That’s how you know the numbers will be centered properly.

Then it’s basically follow the directions on zakka life. Just cut on the grey lines. Fold on the red line. Oh and don’t crease the other fold where the number is. And that’s it.

Enjoy. Or sorry for the tortuous folding, cutting, and taping.