Stationery Advent Goodies! [ Week Two]

Week two brought many surprises yet again!! There was a massive variety of stuff, I love not knowing what I'm going to unwrap next. One day it's owl stickers, the next it's elephant pegs?!

The above photo is an overview of all of the goodies I got from both my advent calendars (Mrs Brimbles & Advent swap).

In the Mrs Brimbles Advent I got a couple of owl related goodies! There was a sticker sheet and a pencil sharpener. I'm planning to use the owl stickers in my journals, I use stickers like this to represent things like when I've had a late night, or if I've stayed up super late working, the phrase 'night owl' comes to mind. So decorating the day with owls would make sense.

There was also this minion pen (AHH MA GADDD) and pineapple washi tape! I have the washi tape in my shop, but I never kept one for myself because I had to limit myself to how many of the foil tapes I could keep from the stock. So it's really nice to have one I can actually keep and use myself!!

These stamps were from the Advent swap I received. I've seen these before in a set from Wilkos, I'm pretty sure I never got the set because I didn't think I'd use all of the stamps in the set. But this 'Hey!' and speech bubble were two of the stamps in the set I did actually like! Perfect to use on snailmail.

These stickers were very different, I've not seen them before but they are a very pretty font! I wasn't so sure on the colour, green is one of my least favourite colours and I do rarely use it (Ironic right, with the name 'MyGreenCow' lol), BUT I can always colour the letters, I could paint them, or use a permanent ink pad on them to make them black. Which is a colour I definitely use more often!

So yes that's week two of my advent goodies!!

Roll on week three! :D

- Daisy X

Stationery Advent Goodies! [ Week One ]

So this year I have two Stationery Advent calendars to open!!

The first one was a swap I took part in on a Facebook group. We had to buy 24 little gifts and wrap them all individually to send to our swap partner!

The second Advent calendar is the one from Mrs Brimbles. She surprised all of us in her Design Team by sending us all one of her advent calendars, which was so awesome of her!

First of all (above) these were some of the items I've received in the Advent swap calendar. I can't remember which days were which, Julie actually forgot to number them so I've just been randomly picking a present out of the pile everyday haha. But I've really enjoyed randomly picking them, it's an added bit of fun and a little different to my Mrs Brimbles Advent calendar!

This was one of my favourite things I have received. It's a Heidi Swapp washi strip booklet. There's some beautiful designs in it! I can't wait to use them. They are a little more handy to store in your planner or take with you when you are travelling, rather than a whole roll of washi tape (or 20 rolls if you are me lol).

We then have some of the stationery that I got in the Mrs Brimbles Advent calendar. (The washi booklet and everything above it was from the Advent swap).  So far I've absolutely loved the variety of stationery I've received!! My favourite things so far from Mrs Brimbles' Advent is either the washi tape or the adorable duck paper clip!!

The true colour of this washi tape isn't picking up in the camera, but it's a proper turquoise colour! I just love it!!

So that was all of the stationery goodies I got in my Advent Calendars from the 1st - 6th of December. I know there's going to be quite a few items to include each week, so I'll try not to ramble on too much in these blogposts. More than anything I just wanted to share a kind of overview of what I've received, as I have had people asking!

Have you got a stationery Advent calendar this year? Or another kind?I also have a good old Dairy Milk chocolate calendar ;)

- Daisy X

Christmas Advent Calendar Swap!

This year I decided to take part in a Advent Calendar swap on a Facebook group!

I had seen multiple photos of these flying about Instagram on the Tiger Instagram accounts, and felt incredibly inspired.

They are currently holding a competition to create a 'pakkekalendar' which means 'countdown advent calendar'. The swap I signed up to on Facebook was planner themed. So all the goodies wrapped up are mainly stationery related and can be used in planning!

I went with a Candy Cane themed box, I found this simple striped wrapping paper in Wilkos, and wrapped up all the gifts. I then stamped out the number 1-25 onto some white paper, cut them out and stuck them on the gifts. I tried to order them so that they were evenly mixed. I obviously included multiple items in different styles. Whether that's numerous pens but different styles, or different styles of washi tape, I wanted to make sure they were all mixed up evenly so my swap partner wasn't opening all washi tapes from days 1-5 etc.

I shredded some white paper to pack in the box with all the goodies, not only did this help to pad things out and make them less likely to be damaged when I sent them to my swap partner in the post, but it gave a snowy feeling to the box!

I found some Candy Canes and decided to pack them between the gifts, as an added bonus to the gifts, it kind of made it like a 'pass the parcel'.

All the gifts included cost between 50p - £3.00 each, there was a limit with this swap to make sure everyone was getting an advent calendar of similar value. I shopped around and found lots of little gifts, bearing in mind that I had to fit 25 gifts into a box that needed to be posted to my swap partner. So I didn't want to make the box too big, or too heavy!

Lastly I wrote my swap partner a little Christmas card and packed everything in nicely with some added bubble wrap so nothing got damaged in the post.

I really enjoyed putting this together, and loved having a theme to go with.

I just wanted to thank Tiger for the inspiration on Instagram over the past few weeks! If you guys are interested in entering, there's not long left but you can find a link to the competition info here.

Fingers crossed my swap partner will enjoy this Calendar on the run up to Christmas!

It's definitely something fun to do for a fellow stationery lover, there seems to be tons of Beauty & make up advent calendars on the market, but not many in other areas.

I know Mrs Brimbles had stationery Advent Calendars this year, which sold out super quickly!

But yeh! Let me know if you guys have taken part in a swap like this in the past, or have done this year?!

- Daisy X