Here's the advent calendar that I made for my mom for Christmas.
I picked up the tree bases from Walgreens for $4.99 and just altered the heck out of them!
To alter this, I covered all 5 sides of each box with decorative paper and then sanded and inked the edges. Several of the boxes were put together kind of wonky, so I had to take them apart and re-glue them straight before altering. Then I literally just raided my stash and started putting things together! I didn't buy a single embellishment for this baby (that should tell you what a hoarder I am! LOL). I just typed up some numbers on the computer, printed and cut them out and then started adding embellishments here and there.
The drawers pull out, so you can pop a little surprise in each box to be revealed every day leading up to Christmas.
Oh Kathy, thank you so much for this! I too, bought this 'tree', then got overwhelmed and stuck it away! Now I have a picture to work from for next year! Thing is, I have 5 grandchildren...lol...lol...lol.