As a gift for a gardener, I think I'm going to add seed packs and identification tags for planting. Herbs, flowers, and veggies too! I love this project and can't wait to start !
ohh, that's awesome! :) I don't know anyone who I could gift an advent calendar with JJ material to. But seeds? yeah, that could work! Thanks for the idea!!
More ideas that were not shown in the video (I will be adding to this as the comments come in) - "30 days to Anniversary" - put a love not in each pockets. Or 30 reasons why I love you.. - A gift for a gardener - add seed packs and identification tags for planting. Herbs, flowers and veggies. - Put them in different order so that the recipient must flip through the book to find each day. - Use blues and whites and greens to recreate a crisp, chilly snowy winter night - hot cocoa in pockets - Money in pockets - Spring/Summer/Winter/Autumn themed - Decoupage the book pages with beautiful napkins to get a design on the page and to push the text into the background! - Jig saw puzzles!!! That leads to a completed puzzle in the end! - Photographs of all the fun times you had with the recipient - Journaling Prompts for each day! - "use it for a birthday month. Include necklace, earrings, charms, bracelet, gift card, tickets to movies or an event, pics of both of you, a birthday card, and/or things they like. Also these can be thin or flat to fit pockets" - make one of these as a memory book. Child's or grandchild's milestones, and family times, in individual mini handmade books.
I made one for my mom at the beginning of December. Her birthday is Christmas day, so instead of a Christmas advent calendar, I made hers for the 25 days till her birthday and wrote on 25 reasons and memories of why I love her. One to open every day. Thank you for the brilliant idea!
I'm so inspired. I'm Jewish but always wanted to come up with nice gift ideas for my Christian friends. But it occurred to me I could make one for Chanukah for my kids too. Just 8 large envelopes 😍😍😍 I'm very excited. I have 4 Christian children and 2 Jewish children to make these for. Thank you!
@@juliebarkley9033 I think I'll make a paper menorah and in each envelope I'll do a gift and a paper candle to tuck into the menorah. This video was super inspirational
Yes! Feeling inspired!!! ✉📩📨🎄🎅 Other pocket stuffer ideas: large jigsaw puzzle pieces 🧩 some of Natasa's cardstock buttons🪶pretty feathers; photos from times shared with the recipient; poems and quotes; seeds for the garden (if not sending abroad); journalling prompts, Xmas cracker jokes, pawprint greetings from your dog or cat, flat Xmas tree decorations, recipient's initials in wooden or stick-on letters, Chinese papercuts, skeletal leaves..."the possibilities are endless"!
Just think how a friend or relative in a nursing home would love this. A tea bag and a prewrapped cookie along with a napkin, a little ornament to add to a mini tree, some spending money, little cards for them to share with others, so many possibilities to add joy to each day.
This is what happens when I watch your videos: I'm 5.25 minutes into the video. I pause the video and go into my studio and immediately begin making 3 advent calendars at a time 😅😂. Now that it's dark, I'll finish watching the video, Thank you very much 😂👍❤️
I missed this video when it aired (camping trip). VERY inspiring! I love this idea. I’ve decided I’ll make myself one in January for my birthday in July. I’ll “forget” what I put in pockets and be excited opening them. 💖💖💖 Thank you!!!
As always love love love your videos. They are always inspirational and I revisit them as am making 7 albums for my grandchildren for Xmas. Frequently making what you have demonstrated. I am unwell so it is a very healing process for me to be doing my crafts. I sit in my lazy boy chair most days. I was chatting to one 6 year old grandson on the phone the other day thinking he must think I'm very messy ( as i can reach most of what I need from my chair). "No Grandma - thats your creative corner!" was his reply. Boy do I love him!!!!!!
Your creativity is mind blowing to me. Im going to make one of these for my nephew’s fiancé. She can open one envelope a day until their wedding day. Thank you for sharing your creativity and inspiration!
You never stop amazing me. You are the greatest crafter ever. I'm going to do this and put it for my teen under the tree so he opens it and his gift cards ,money ,and other things for X-mas are in it. Then he can keep it for a book to hold keepsakes in. Thank you 😊
I love the idea of creating a scavenger hunt where each day is a clue to a word that describes a place where you will find the ultimate gift.with each clue could be 1 serving size treats
Natasha, every single video you make I'm inspired. I shared your channel with my mother and she's not a Journalist. I just think your imagination is impecable. Thanks for always sharing your ideas with us. I'm so obsessed with your channel I can wait every single week to see you. I did a watch-a-ton the first time I found you😅 To me, a week is tooooo... long to wait but, I know how hard it it's to do crafting and being a momma. Just know that you inspired the almost 200k people you have in here. The thing a love the most is your sense of humor. Thanks for everything you do. Happy Holidays ❤
I’m going to make one of these as a memory book. I’ve been recording my 8mo grandson’s milestones, and family times, in individual mini handmade books. I was going to just put them all into a decorated box, but now I’ll be art journaling pages, and putting each mini book in its own little envelope on those pages and gifting it to my son and DIL on his first birthday.
I made one of these for my mom and dad, only I had their grandkids and great grandkids put something in a pocket of their choice, in place of the number I made name plates to hold the envelope flap down❤
Natasha! This is stunning and what a fabulous idea! I love this for my adult daughter. I will pop a small gift card for her favorite places in each day and write her a letter about all I love about her and the woman she has become for day 25. Thank you so much for constantly sharing your creativity with us. You are such a beautiful soul. ❤
I got inspired right away. I was thinking if the first pocket holds a blank journal, everything else can be stuff to embellish the journal, so it is like a little kit.
Honey, you are always an Inspiration! I love all that you do, I have a smile on my face throughout my time with you! And you have me laughing which is such a wonderful thing for me, (I have a few mental illnesses due to stress). So know that I find you marvelous in so many ways and I’m so excited to be able to find you so easily, day or night! I am a 67yo female Veteran of the USA, born and raised in Memphis, TN, maybe 10 miles south of Graceland, you remember Elvis Presley, right!?! I have had 4 children and I have 8 Grandchildren, the youngest is 14yo now! I love your sessions, you have so much to teach and I have so much to learn from you! I can’t wait! Thankfully I am blessed to be able to save your sessions, my memory isn’t the best, but it is getting so much better now that I have made my diet full of antioxidants, they are so good for your brain and the whole body! Okay, you have said your good nights, I suppose it would be good for me to as well, Good Night, Natasha. Oh! I’m Karen. ☺️
I DO feel inspired!!! I always feel inspired by your videos and really really look forward to the next one. I have all kinds of tools and machines but it's just amazing to see the elegant journals and books you make from practically castoffs. Don't ever feel we are not inspired! Also, it would be fun to see your daughter's little hands play crafting with you. 💕💕💕
Love this idea. But... I also think that on the last page of the book i will add a note about the recipient refilling the pockets themselves and passing the book onto someone else the next Christmas. Makes me wonder how many years it would be passed around and if it would ever make it back to the original recipient 😊
Inspired. I want to add an appendix or epilogue for the 12 days of Christmas, counting from Christmas to Epiphany. When I was young, one year our family had no money for Christmas, so my dad wrote each of us a story for our Christmas present. A few paragraphs a day in each envelope would be a gift always treasured.
I absolutely love this project. What a great idea for even children. They would love opening an envelope each day finding kid stuff like gum, coloring pages, stickers, a portion of the Christmas story ending on the 25th with the Magi bringing gifts to the young child Jesus. Letters of love from grandma. I better get started!!!❤
If you have given someone a journal one year as a gift. The next year you could give this. You could leave the numbers off and use it for ephemera storage. Thank you for the video! Treasuring my books, I make.....
Watching this in October 2024 ... I am so making this ... what a cute Advent project! You could even put strips of paper in the envelopes to do something good for the 25 days ... write down 25 good things to do and add it in with the goodies!
Yes! Your video totally inspired me! I am listing Christmas related things for the pockets. I want to make this for my adult daughters and include things like Christmas stamps, return address labels, to from tags, Christmas list papers, and ask things along those lines. I also love the 30 days to your birthday. Each day will have little notes saying what I love about the person I'm giving this to and also insert pictures of fun times together. This is exciting. Thank you for the inspiration. I run out of ideas on what to give those that don't need more stuff!
This would be a great gift for someone who likes to travel. The cover, maybe a map? Making pouches a little larger to store memorabilia from a trip. Each envelope or pocket could have a tag to write on a date and location. Ohh!! All the possibilities!!!
This would make the absolutely perfect gift idea… if I had friends and family who enjoyed these types of things. But I’m super inspired and brainstorming non-scrapbooking ideas for pocket fillers. Things like… Fabric swatches. Threads. Stickers. Maybe a gift card or two for small amounts? Eyeshadow pallets. Makeup brushes. Eyeliner pens. (For the long, narrow pockets.) Of course, most of these are incredibly bulky items.
19:25 The advice you gave at this spot is so useful. I should sort my book pages and save the ones with illustrations at the bottom for making envelopes with interesting top flaps. I found this reminder also very useful: to use book pages as decorative paper especially when we need exact straight lines (like for checking where to fold without extra measuring). One of many-many things I admire about your channel is that you do your homework - you prepare prototypes, you clearly demonstrate how to go about planning stress-free by building quick visuals, you test run, and you have your cheat sheets ready.
This is a wonderful project. I see how it can also be a gift that keeps on giving. I see it being refilled after all the wonderful things are used and given to another person and they use it, refill it and pass it on. I love this project. You are definitely an inspiration. Thank you❤️
Teaching my 4 year old granddaughter to craft. She loves it! Might make her one of these with lots of glitter, stickers and other things with a journal to go along with it.
Inspired? YES! We pulled names for family Secret Santa and I can certainly implement this idea for my gift! Recipient isn't a maker, but will fill pockets with notes of affirmation and encouragement! Gift card or cash might fill a couple. I may fill pockets with clues to a scavenger hunt to the gift(s). YES YES YES you have inspired me! I may make one for friend to open when she needs a boost with instructions how she can refill pockets with favored things. Oh, the inspiration! Thank you!
Absolutely magical. I love all the little details sprinkled throughout that make the whole project cohesive, such as the gold decorations and using the same sewing stitch on all the envelopes. Definitely a true ‘treasure book’!
I love this idea. I think I'm going to do one for each of my children, and for my parents next year. I envision including gift cards, tickets for events, sentiments, small gifts, codes to redeem games online, subscriptions, clues to find larger hidden gifts. Such fun!
Just incredible!!!! Every single thing you share inspires me more and more! Thank you for giant effort I KNOW it must take to create these videos. Believe me….YOU’RE inspiring millions! 🥰
This is a marvelous idea for a gift. A crafter would love it,grandchildren that craft, like mine, would be happy to receive it. Meticulous instructions and yes, very inspiring 😊❤👍
You always provide inspiration in ways I bet you never even thought about. ❤ Sadly, I have no family. It's of my own decision, stay with emotionally blackmailing, manipulating, control freaks, and a mom that's a narcissistic alcoholic or cut ties and deal with lonely holidays. Lonely holidays are less to deal with than 365 days of nasty. But this is a Brilliant idea!
Better off being alone, than surrounded by people who drag you down over and over and over again. I'm glad you found peace in solitude! Crafting is your friend!
Away from the abuse and ugliness is a wonderful thing, I’m living through that myself and thankfully getting help through the USVA for the emotional trauma that has been throughout my life. I hope you are or have gotten help for yourself, you will be added to my prayers. 😊🙏🏻😊🙏🏻😊🙏🏻😊
This is so wonderful!! You have such a great imagination. I can see this as a stationary holder. Stamps, paper clips, envelopes, cards, etc... My mind is going now. Lol. Thank you
Your precious daughter being inspired by her Mom is just beautiful to my heart. Brings back memories of my daughter being inspired by my scrapbooking, some years ago. She would scrapbook along side my Mom and me. She’s a bit embarrassed at what her scrapbooks look like now that she’s 19, but she is so artistic and truly loves art! She doesn’t consider that this was ten or more years ago. This is one more incredible project that you’ve shared, Natasha! I find myself wondering if you EVER get sleep😂♥️
Thanks, Natasa! I now know what I'm going to give my niece for her birthday! She's very creative and crafty and would love the challenge of creating a journal page each day, for a month, leading up to her birthday, with the ultimate page on her actual birthday. I've also been reading the comments with other wonderful uses for this idea that are phenomenal. This is just brilliant... as you always are! Thank you so much!
I do feel very inspired by this project. Think I will do something for my disabled sister for December. Thank you so much for this video tutorial to show us the advent calendar. ❤
There is no feeling like your daughter, imitating you it's like a warm hug but from the inside that's the best way I can describe it. Why not do a wonky envelope count down album. love this vid, you are always so inspiring, youv'e got my ideas flying around in my brain. tfs have a blessed day. Nicole UK
I am inspired! A great gift idea for different hobbies or events one might have - new baby, wedding, graduation, birthday quilting, gardening, cooking ( new recioes to try, tips, etc) I think it would make a great prayer journal - I am really inspired with this idea. You never cease to amaze me with your creativity! You are very gifted!
Love this idea ❤. I will use it for a birthday month. Include necklace, earrings, charms, bracelet, gift card, tickets to movies or an event, pics of both of you, a birthday card, and/or things they like. Also these can be thin or flat to fit pockets. You out did yourself on this one. So very creative!!
Wowza! Yes inspired!! In the years to follow the recipient can use this as a Christmas daily journal. They can keep what they wrote and add to it year after year. Love your daughter’s envelopes! Yes make them a little wonky like those paper houses you made! Maybe make it Whoville and Grinch themed! As you say, the possibilities are endless! Thank you for this amazing project!
I love the way you inspire us! You have so many great ideas, I have used a lot of them on my journals. You leave me in awe with your great ideas. My son bought me your book for my birthday. Thank you, and happy holidays! ❤
Like everyone else, I am inspired by this amazing project. Your creative mind and eye for detail always leave me awestruck. I don't have any friends who do junk journals or are even into crafting, so I have enjoyed reading some of the other ideas people have shared. My mind is spinning.
My God, I love your videos so, so much!!! You always have the greatest ideas, are so informative, you clearly explain instructions, and have such beautiful projects ❤️! Thank you again for such a wonderful video and great creative ideas. I always learn something new. I love you and your videos. You are so talented. Thank you for sharing your art❤
If I ever received something like this, it would blow me away. But I intend to make something for myself. I long for corner dye cuts like yours Natasa. Love the whole project. Beautiful as always.
Wow Natasa!!! What an awesome idea! You could do so many themes with this project. I would bet that each one of my daughters (I have 5) would love this as a gift. 😮❤
I love this project. I am going to make one purely for myself to store little bits and pieces of ephemera and supplies for other bigger projects. What fun!
This project was quite something. In fact, amazing comes to mind. You certainly have the talent, technique, teaching ability and personality to create and inspire your viewers. Most impressive and I don’t impress easily. Carol from California
I love this project and I'm very inspired. I like to save all my Christmas cards with the thought to do something to repurpose them. Now, I am motivated to try some ideas inspired by your beautiful advent book.
Natasa I really feel inspired by that Advent calendar book !! How gorgeous ! I liked that you showed us what to put in the envelopes, certainly great ideas ! I shall make one for… myself like you !! Delightful. Thank you for sharing this wonderful idea. ❤
I've been trying to think of something to make my best friend/neighbor for christmas. She's been wanting to get into junk journal making and I think this is the coolest gift for her, adding little bits and bobs in the pockets to help her along her way! Thank you for the idea!!
This is clever! I love it. I’ll be making one for our family for the whole month of December…filling it with a movie or game every night leading up to Christmas! Thank you for this wonderful idea!!!❤❤❤❤
This is awesome... thank you so much! This advent calendar would be great gift for a crafter or artist - young & old! - filled with all sorts of treasures (embellishments and bits & bobs etc) that they can use in their craft or artwork. Next year they can give the empty calendar back to you to refill 😁 All I would add is if you were thinking of gifting embellishments such as googly eyes or beads etc that the envelope closes fully so nothing falls out. Paper embellishments, pretty cardstock etc shouldn't pose a problem!
As a gift for a gardener, I think I'm going to add seed packs and identification tags for planting. Herbs, flowers, and veggies too! I love this project and can't wait to start !
I absolutely love your idea. ❤
ohh, that's awesome! :) I don't know anyone who I could gift an advent calendar with JJ material to. But seeds? yeah, that could work! Thanks for the idea!!
Oh that's such a good idea! 🥰
What a great idea!!
That’s a great idea, my aunt loves to be in her garden, I would love to see a tutorial on using the seed packets
More ideas that were not shown in the video (I will be adding to this as the comments come in) - "30 days to Anniversary" - put a love not in each pockets. Or 30 reasons why I love you..
- A gift for a gardener - add seed packs and identification tags for planting. Herbs, flowers and veggies.
- Put them in different order so that the recipient must flip through the book to find each day.
- Use blues and whites and greens to recreate a crisp, chilly snowy winter night - hot cocoa in pockets
- Money in pockets
- Spring/Summer/Winter/Autumn themed
- Decoupage the book pages with beautiful napkins to get a design on the page and to push the text into the background!
- Jig saw puzzles!!! That leads to a completed puzzle in the end!
- Photographs of all the fun times you had with the recipient
- Journaling Prompts for each day!
- "use it for a birthday month. Include necklace, earrings, charms, bracelet, gift card, tickets to movies or an event, pics of both of you, a birthday card, and/or things they like. Also these can be thin or flat to fit pockets"
- make one of these as a memory book. Child's or grandchild's milestones, and family times, in individual mini handmade books.
Great ideas, I thought holiday guessing game mix up the no. let the kids find them and try to guess where they are going.
Gorgeous ideas 😍😍
These are all fabulous ideas, Natasa. Thanks for sharing.
Brilliant! You could also put clues in each slot so people would have to figure out their gift :)
I made one for my mom at the beginning of December. Her birthday is Christmas day, so instead of a Christmas advent calendar, I made hers for the 25 days till her birthday and wrote on 25 reasons and memories of why I love her. One to open every day. Thank you for the brilliant idea!
I'm so inspired. I'm Jewish but always wanted to come up with nice gift ideas for my Christian friends.
But it occurred to me I could make one for Chanukah for my kids too. Just 8 large envelopes 😍😍😍 I'm very excited. I have 4 Christian children and 2 Jewish children to make these for.
Thank you!
That's a brilliant idea! So smart of an alternative!😍
@@juliebarkley9033 I think I'll make a paper menorah and in each envelope I'll do a gift and a paper candle to tuck into the menorah. This video was super inspirational
YES! I have a Jewish friend and I thought it would be wonderful to send her one as well 💖
Better get started.
Fabulous idea, I love it!!!!
Yes! Feeling inspired!!! ✉📩📨🎄🎅 Other pocket stuffer ideas: large jigsaw puzzle pieces 🧩 some of Natasa's cardstock buttons🪶pretty feathers; photos from times shared with the recipient; poems and quotes; seeds for the garden (if not sending abroad); journalling prompts, Xmas cracker jokes, pawprint greetings from your dog or cat, flat Xmas tree decorations, recipient's initials in wooden or stick-on letters, Chinese papercuts, skeletal leaves..."the possibilities are endless"!
More great ideas! I see I’m going to have to look through what others have written as well! Thanks!
Just think how a friend or relative in a nursing home would love this. A tea bag and a prewrapped cookie along with a napkin, a little ornament to add to a mini tree, some spending money, little cards for them to share with others, so many possibilities to add joy to each day.
This is what happens when I watch your videos: I'm 5.25 minutes into the video. I pause the video and go into my studio and immediately begin making 3 advent calendars at a time 😅😂. Now that it's dark, I'll finish watching the video, Thank you very much 😂👍❤️
Hehe I love it!!!
What you creat is not only beautiful but very classy. Thank you for sharing your wonderful ideas.
Thank you so much!
I missed this video when it aired (camping trip). VERY inspiring! I love this idea. I’ve decided I’ll make myself one in January for my birthday in July. I’ll “forget” what I put in pockets and be excited opening them. 💖💖💖 Thank you!!!
Hope you had a nice birthday x
As always love love love your videos. They are always inspirational and I revisit them as am making 7 albums for my grandchildren for Xmas. Frequently making what you have demonstrated. I am unwell so it is a very healing process for me to be doing my crafts. I sit in my lazy boy chair most days. I was chatting to one 6 year old grandson on the phone the other day thinking he must think I'm very messy ( as i can reach most of what I need from my chair). "No Grandma - thats your creative corner!" was his reply. Boy do I love him!!!!!!
Your creativity is mind blowing to me. Im going to make one of these for my nephew’s fiancé. She can open one envelope a day until their wedding day. Thank you for sharing your creativity and inspiration!
Wonderful idea!!
You never stop amazing me. You are the greatest crafter ever. I'm going to do this and put it for my teen under the tree so he opens it and his gift cards ,money ,and other things for X-mas are in it. Then he can keep it for a book to hold keepsakes in. Thank you 😊
I love the idea of creating a scavenger hunt where each day is a clue to a word that describes a place where you will find the ultimate gift.with each clue could be 1 serving size treats
I like that idea! 😊👍
Natasha, every single video you make I'm inspired.
I shared your channel with my mother and she's not a Journalist.
I just think your imagination is impecable. Thanks for always sharing your ideas with us.
I'm so obsessed with your channel I can wait every single week to see you.
I did a watch-a-ton the first time I found you😅
To me, a week is tooooo... long to wait but, I know how hard it it's to do crafting and being a momma.
Just know that you inspired the almost 200k people you have in here.
The thing a love the most is your sense of humor. Thanks for everything you do.
Happy Holidays ❤
Is hard when she don,t post on a saturday😂.i,m not the only one looking at RUclips hundred times,i,m sure😂❤
@@auroralafuentesalgado2775 lol you are not!.
Its a little depressing I'm not going to lie.
😁
ohhhh this message melts my heart! Thank you so very much, I truly appreciated your kind words :)
I absolutely love your videos. I am just beginning and don't know how to find all of them. I just have to hunt. Where can I buy your books?
I’m going to make one of these as a memory book. I’ve been recording my 8mo grandson’s milestones, and family times, in individual mini handmade books. I was going to just put them all into a decorated box, but now I’ll be art journaling pages, and putting each mini book in its own little envelope on those pages and gifting it to my son and DIL on his first birthday.
Excellent ideas, added to the list! Thank you for sharing :)
I made one of these for my mom and dad, only I had their grandkids and great grandkids put something in a pocket of their choice, in place of the number I made name plates to hold the envelope flap down❤
Natasha! This is stunning and what a fabulous idea! I love this for my adult daughter. I will pop a small gift card for her favorite places in each day and write her a letter about all I love about her and the woman she has become for day 25.
Thank you so much for constantly sharing your creativity with us. You are such a beautiful soul. ❤
I love that your daughter was so inspired and so creative. That is really special. I can imagine lots of ways to use this idea. Thank you, Natasha.
I got inspired right away. I was thinking if the first pocket holds a blank journal, everything else can be stuff to embellish the journal, so it is like a little kit.
Absolutely love that idea!!!
Oh my goodness am I inspired!!
“Absolutely stunning”. ..doesn’t even come close….!
Thank you so much :)
Honey, you are always an Inspiration! I love all that you do, I have a smile on my face throughout my time with you! And you have me laughing which is such a wonderful thing for me, (I have a few mental illnesses due to stress). So know that I find you marvelous in so many ways and I’m so excited to be able to find you so easily, day or night!
I am a 67yo female Veteran of the USA, born and raised in Memphis, TN, maybe 10 miles south of Graceland, you remember Elvis Presley, right!?!
I have had 4 children and I have 8 Grandchildren, the youngest is 14yo now!
I love your sessions, you have so much to teach and I have so much to learn from you! I can’t wait!
Thankfully I am blessed to be able to save your sessions, my memory isn’t the best, but it is getting so much better now that I have made my diet full of antioxidants, they are so good for your brain and the whole body!
Okay, you have said your good nights, I suppose it would be good for me to as well,
Good Night, Natasha.
Oh! I’m Karen. ☺️
I DO feel inspired!!! I always feel inspired by your videos and really really look forward to the next one. I have all kinds of tools and machines but it's just amazing to see the elegant journals and books you make from practically castoffs. Don't ever feel we are not inspired! Also, it would be fun to see your daughter's little hands play crafting with you. 💕💕💕
Love this idea.
But... I also think that on the last page of the book i will add a note about the recipient refilling the pockets themselves and passing the book onto someone else the next Christmas. Makes me wonder how many years it would be passed around and if it would ever make it back to the original recipient 😊
Your work is very disticitive. As soon as I come to your videos I know it's your designs.
Thank you so much!!!
Inspired. I want to add an appendix or epilogue for the 12 days of Christmas, counting from Christmas to Epiphany. When I was young, one year our family had no money for Christmas, so my dad wrote each of us a story for our Christmas present. A few paragraphs a day in each envelope would be a gift always treasured.
I absolutely love this project. What a great idea for even children. They would love opening an envelope each day finding kid stuff like gum, coloring pages, stickers, a portion of the Christmas story ending on the 25th with the Magi bringing gifts to the young child Jesus.
Letters of love from grandma. I better get started!!!❤
Great idea!
I felt totally inspired! It was so fun to watch you fill each pocket and talk it through to us. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is absolutely stunning! 💖 And I love the first page & the “misfit” blue envelope. It’s kicking off the season in its blue glory! 😅💙
If you have given someone a journal one year as a gift. The next year you could give this. You could leave the numbers off and use it for ephemera storage. Thank you for the video! Treasuring my books, I make.....
Watching this in October 2024 ... I am so making this ... what a cute Advent project! You could even put strips of paper in the envelopes to do something good for the 25 days ... write down 25 good things to do and add it in with the goodies!
Yes! Your video totally inspired me! I am listing Christmas related things for the pockets. I want to make this for my adult daughters and include things like Christmas stamps, return address labels, to from tags, Christmas list papers, and ask things along those lines. I also love the 30 days to your birthday. Each day will have little notes saying what I love about the person I'm giving this to and also insert pictures of fun times together. This is exciting. Thank you for the inspiration. I run out of ideas on what to give those that don't need more stuff!
This would be a great gift for someone who likes to travel. The cover, maybe a map? Making pouches a little larger to store memorabilia from a trip. Each envelope or pocket could have a tag to write on a date and location. Ohh!! All the possibilities!!!
Great ideas to add to the ever growing ideas from Natasha!
Thanks!
This would make the absolutely perfect gift idea… if I had friends and family who enjoyed these types of things. But I’m super inspired and brainstorming non-scrapbooking ideas for pocket fillers. Things like… Fabric swatches. Threads. Stickers. Maybe a gift card or two for small amounts? Eyeshadow pallets. Makeup brushes. Eyeliner pens. (For the long, narrow pockets.) Of course, most of these are incredibly bulky items.
Gusseted pockets so they're more like small boxes
Long narrow envelope could hold 2-3 colored pencils. Larger flat pocket could be pages to color
19:25 The advice you gave at this spot is so useful. I should sort my book pages and save the ones with illustrations at the bottom for making envelopes with interesting top flaps. I found this reminder also very useful: to use book pages as decorative paper especially when we need exact straight lines (like for checking where to fold without extra measuring). One of many-many things I admire about your channel is that you do your homework - you prepare prototypes, you clearly demonstrate how to go about planning stress-free by building quick visuals, you test run, and you have your cheat sheets ready.
And the detail of your nail polish matches your creation! The countdown video is beautiful. Thank you
Thank you so much!
Oh! My! Word! that is absolutely AMAZING.
Love it.
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It's absolutely beautiful. I never knew about junk Journaling until I started watching your videos. I have started making some.
This is a wonderful project. I see how it can also be a gift that keeps on giving. I see it being refilled after all the wonderful things are used and given to another person and they use it, refill it and pass it on. I love this project. You are definitely an inspiration. Thank you❤️
I love your daughter envelopes so much❤and yes,i feel inspire,i feel inspire everytime i see your videos,no one like you for that.❤
Thank you so much :)
What an amazing project! Unique gift for anyone!
I love how you explain every tiny detail😍.. can you please make a video on how you organize your supplies? Thank you very much🌷💕
I love what you shared about your daughter. Her envelopes are perfect! I’m so happy to hear about moms that share with their children their passion.
Teaching my 4 year old granddaughter to craft. She loves it! Might make her one of these with lots of glitter, stickers and other things with a journal to go along with it.
Wow!
Stunning
Inspired? YES! We pulled names for family Secret Santa and I can certainly implement this idea for my gift! Recipient isn't a maker, but will fill pockets with notes of affirmation and encouragement! Gift card or cash might fill a couple. I may fill pockets with clues to a scavenger hunt to the gift(s). YES YES YES you have inspired me! I may make one for friend to open when she needs a boost with instructions how she can refill pockets with favored things. Oh, the inspiration! Thank you!
Ohhhh I'm so happy that you feel so inspired!!! Thank you so much :)
I love your daughter’s envelopes! ❤
Absolutely magical. I love all the little details sprinkled throughout that make the whole project cohesive, such as the gold decorations and using the same sewing stitch on all the envelopes. Definitely a true ‘treasure book’!
Thank you so much!
It’s Treasure Day !!!!!
Those little nail-art stickers are great to use on finished handmade beads because of their small size.
I love this idea. I think I'm going to do one for each of my children, and for my parents next year. I envision including gift cards, tickets for events, sentiments, small gifts, codes to redeem games online, subscriptions, clues to find larger hidden gifts. Such fun!
Wow, Mind Blown.
Wow!! So inspired to make a version of thus for each of my two granddaughters! My brain is on overdrive!!❤
Just incredible!!!! Every single thing you share inspires me more and more! Thank you for giant effort I KNOW it must take to create these videos. Believe me….YOU’RE inspiring millions! 🥰
I concur! 🥰
This is a marvelous idea for a gift. A crafter would love it,grandchildren that craft, like mine, would be happy to receive it. Meticulous instructions and yes, very inspiring 😊❤👍
Thank you so much :)
You always provide inspiration in ways I bet you never even thought about. ❤ Sadly, I have no family. It's of my own decision, stay with emotionally blackmailing, manipulating, control freaks, and a mom that's a narcissistic alcoholic or cut ties and deal with lonely holidays. Lonely holidays are less to deal with than 365 days of nasty. But this is a Brilliant idea!
Better off being alone, than surrounded by people who drag you down over and over and over again. I'm glad you found peace in solitude! Crafting is your friend!
Away from the abuse and ugliness is a wonderful thing, I’m living through that myself and thankfully getting help through the USVA for the emotional trauma that has been throughout my life.
I hope you are or have gotten help for yourself, you will be added to my prayers. 😊🙏🏻😊🙏🏻😊🙏🏻😊
The bright light in ab awful week. Thank you so much!
Cool idea for an adult advent calender ❤ Greetings from Denmark
This is so wonderful!! You have such a great imagination. I can see this as a stationary holder. Stamps, paper clips, envelopes, cards, etc... My mind is going now. Lol. Thank you
Love this idea of stuffers!
Love it!!!
Your precious daughter being inspired by her Mom is just beautiful to my heart. Brings back memories of my daughter being inspired by my scrapbooking, some years ago.
She would scrapbook along side my Mom and me. She’s a bit embarrassed at what her scrapbooks look like now that she’s 19, but she is so artistic and truly loves art!
She doesn’t consider that this was ten or more years ago.
This is one more incredible project that you’ve shared, Natasha!
I find myself wondering if you EVER get sleep😂♥️
Thanks, Natasa! I now know what I'm going to give my niece for her birthday! She's very creative and crafty and would love the challenge of creating a journal page each day, for a month, leading up to her birthday, with the ultimate page on her actual birthday. I've also been reading the comments with other wonderful uses for this idea that are phenomenal. This is just brilliant... as you always are! Thank you so much!
You literally come up with the absolute best ideas!!!!!
Thank you so much :)
Was loving all the nice cute things u put in the pockets. I'm thinking doing for my grandkids..love it
Thank you 😃
I do feel very inspired by this project. Think I will do something for my disabled sister for December. Thank you so much for this video tutorial to show us the advent calendar. ❤
There is no feeling like your daughter, imitating you it's like a warm hug but from the inside that's the best way I can describe it. Why not do a wonky envelope count down album. love this vid, you are always so inspiring, youv'e got my ideas flying around in my brain. tfs have a blessed day. Nicole UK
You always inspire me❣️I can’t wait to make one. Maybe an ABC one. Thanks for sharing❣️
I am inspired! A great gift idea for different hobbies or events one might have - new baby, wedding, graduation, birthday quilting, gardening, cooking ( new recioes to try, tips, etc) I think it would make a great prayer journal - I am really inspired with this idea. You never cease to amaze me with your creativity! You are very gifted!
Love this idea ❤. I will use it for a birthday month. Include necklace, earrings, charms, bracelet, gift card, tickets to movies or an event, pics of both of you, a birthday card, and/or things they like. Also these can be thin or flat to fit pockets.
You out did yourself on this one. So very creative!!
Excellent ideas, added to the list! Thank you for sharing :)
Wowza! Yes inspired!! In the years to follow the recipient can use this as a Christmas daily journal. They can keep what they wrote and add to it year after year. Love your daughter’s envelopes! Yes make them a little wonky like those paper houses you made! Maybe make it Whoville and Grinch themed! As you say, the possibilities are endless! Thank you for this amazing project!
Such a delightful idea, and I could see this being a year-round activity to bring to holiday bazaars!
Would you fill it? If so, with what?
I love the way you inspire us! You have so many great ideas, I have used a lot of them on my journals. You leave me in awe with your great ideas. My son bought me your book for my birthday. Thank you, and happy holidays! ❤
Exquisite 💃 Your daughter’s envelopes are the most precious. 😊
Thank you so much :)
So beautiful
Thank you
Like everyone else, I am inspired by this amazing project. Your creative mind and eye for detail always leave me awestruck. I don't have any friends who do junk journals or are even into crafting, so I have enjoyed reading some of the other ideas people have shared. My mind is spinning.
What a great achievement and concept. It could be used for every holiday 😊😊❤
Baby due month, new home month, new job, vacation month, wedding month. Ideas are endless, back to school, end of school year, graduation……🦋❤️
Jewelry would go in pockets too
My God, I love your videos so, so much!!! You always have the greatest ideas, are so informative, you clearly explain instructions, and have such beautiful projects ❤️! Thank you again for such a wonderful video and great creative ideas. I always learn something new. I love you and your videos. You are so talented. Thank you for sharing your art❤
If I ever received something like this, it would blow me away. But I intend to make something for myself. I long for corner dye cuts like yours Natasa. Love the whole project. Beautiful as always.
Thank you so much :)
@@TreasureBooks 😀🇨🇦🍰🍰🫖☕️🧁🩷
Enjoy all your videos. Look forward to Saturday when your video comes out. The dots, I call them gem dots. 💕
Thank you so much :)
Wow Natasa!!! What an awesome idea! You could do so many themes with this project. I would bet that each one of my daughters (I have 5) would love this as a gift. 😮❤
Sweetest part with your daughter’s creativity! Please show us on a side note in one of your videos her finished creation if she finishes it. ❤️
The most unique and beautiful advent calendar i have ever seen....it's magical to me
Awww I love that you showed the envelopes your daughter made! 🥹 always inspiring! 🦋🍄 This project is striking, and you’re a master at repurposing! ✨🧡✨
I love this project. I am going to make one purely for myself to store little bits and pieces of ephemera and supplies for other bigger projects. What fun!
Great idea!
Your creations and enthusiasm are amazing. Thank you
Thank you so much :)
This project was quite something. In fact, amazing comes to mind. You certainly have the talent, technique, teaching ability and personality to create and inspire your viewers. Most impressive and I don’t impress easily.
Carol from California
Thank you! Cheers!
I love this project and I'm very inspired. I like to save all my Christmas cards with the thought to do something to repurpose them. Now, I am motivated to try some ideas inspired by your beautiful advent book.
Thank you so much :)
I love this so much! I’ll be making this every year for my granddaughter and other little ones in my life!!!
This is just incredible. Beautiful, thanks for sharing
Natasa I really feel inspired by that Advent calendar book !! How gorgeous ! I liked that you showed us what to put in the envelopes, certainly great ideas ! I shall make one for… myself like you !! Delightful. Thank you for sharing this wonderful idea. ❤
You are so welcome! Thank you for watching!
This is gorgeous abs could be used over and over again year after year. What a fabulous gift
I've been trying to think of something to make my best friend/neighbor for christmas. She's been wanting to get into junk journal making and I think this is the coolest gift for her, adding little bits and bobs in the pockets to help her along her way! Thank you for the idea!!
What a fabulous way to introduce someone into junk journaling/handmade books :)
This is clever! I love it. I’ll be making one for our family for the whole month of December…filling it with a movie or game every night leading up to Christmas! Thank you for this wonderful idea!!!❤❤❤❤
Great idea!
Great inspiration to make one for both my children before Christmas. Even one for my neighbor that I babysit for.
Very inspiring! You are so creative and have the best ideas! ❤❤❤
Thank you so much :)
I loved this idea before I even clicked on the video. Simple and beautiful 😊😊😊☮️♥️🌎
Thank you! 😊
Just wonderful! What a fun gift to give another crafter.
This is a fabulous project. Yes, I am inspired. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you so much :)
This is awesome... thank you so much!
This advent calendar would be great gift for a crafter or artist - young & old! - filled with all sorts of treasures (embellishments and bits & bobs etc) that they can use in their craft or artwork. Next year they can give the empty calendar back to you to refill 😁
All I would add is if you were thinking of gifting embellishments such as googly eyes or beads etc that the envelope closes fully so nothing falls out. Paper embellishments, pretty cardstock etc shouldn't pose a problem!
Sooo inspired!!! Starting mine as soon as I cancel the original plans that I had for today.😊😊 LOVE everything you do!