Thanksgiving Calender

This is kind of like an Advent Calender, but it is for Thanksgiving.
You need a yard of felt - your choice of color, I used dark brown, on sale at Jo-Anns for $2.99
Then I got 11 sheets of a lighter brown, and tan. I traced my hands just like you probably did as a kid. I used red, orange and yellow and cut extra fingers to make the tails fuller, and also red for the gobbler thingy. I got the felt on sale 4/$1.00
I hotglued the turkeys together, and added a plastic eye on the thumb.
WARNING: If you are going to sew your turkeys on, don't put your eye on until after you do. I sewed three of them on, and it was a big pain managing that much material, the needle didn't want to go through that many layers. I ended up hotglueing the rest of the turkeys on.
You aren't ready to do that yet.
I used orange blanket binding and sewed it down the sides - it took 2 three yard packages.  Then I flipped the top down and machine stitched a hem big enough to allow a wooden dowel to slip through.
You can't see it in the picture, but I sewed orange and gold beaded braiding as a hanger. This was the most expensive part - it was $7 for two yards.
Then I glued all the turkeys on.
Then with white felt, I cut out numbers - I didn't have a stencil so I hand drew them on cardboard and made my own. I glued the numbers on.

One suggestion - I made this for two children and trying to fit two treats in each pocket was tight. It would have been better for one child.
Also, filling it was the expensive part. Except for the braiding for the hanger, the project was about $10 to $12.  Then filling it was about $30.

Some suggestions for filling it - tiny playdough, cute toothbrushes or pencils, tattoos, candy, gum, sachet, hot chocolate packs, jewelry, little cars, little soaps, crayons.
This was fun and I can't wait to make them a Christmas one, I already bought the supplies.

This is a mirror I picked up at an auction for less than $20. It was white and it hung in my dining room, but now I have moved and I am doing a bedroom in pink and gray. I used duct tape to edge the mirror to protect it. It only took one coat, and I can't emphasize enough that using a quality paint makes all the difference. This was done with Valspar, very expensive but I have managed to do a lot of furniture with less than a gallon.

This is an old bed I picked up at a junk store and made a few repairs on. I am doing a pink and gray bedroom. I used Valspar paint, which was about $40 a gallon. But with paint you really do get what you pay for. I still had to use two coats because the bed was black when I was in an oriental phase.
That center is a piece of cheap plywood, but I am on the hunt for an appropriate size mirror to replace it.

Spray paint queen

I love spray paint. I love skeleton keys, which I had been collecting. I rounded out my collection with a few I scored from ebay. My step dad had made this box for my Mom, and she used it for many years. It was laying around one of my buildings, so I spray painted it with Krylon smoke gray. I use Krylon Ballet slipper pink for just about everything I don't turn red. I am going to use that gummy stuff you can use to hang posters to fasten them in, so that you can't see the fasteners. Total cost, about $7 for spray paint, and about $10 for some keys.