One. She prefers the night to day.

[venta]

Morning all. White rabbits.

However, never mind rabbits, today is much more exciting, as it's the day Advent calendars kick off. Everyone who played The Great Advent Game this year (with the exception of our German outpost, whom the post has thus far failed) should now be in possession of some sort of spangly home made means of counting up to 24.

My calendar flolloped through the letter box in good time at the beginning of the week. I have to admit, I've never thought of dmh as the type liable to faff around with glue and cardboard for fun, but he's rather surpassed himself.

In the large envelope, I found a glittery, stocking-shaped calendar:



In addition, there was a small pile of chocolates in the bottom of the envelope. Ooh, I wondered, maybe there's one for each day. Indeed there were... each one numbered, and with a Christmassy picture:



I'm chomping on today's as I type.



They're really rather lovely. And our house is only slightly covered in loose glitter ;)

Thanks a huge amount to DMH for such a marvellous calendar, and thanks to everyone else who joined in and made calendars and posted them round the world.

Now, what's everyone else got ? Come on, I wanna know!

Coming soon, The Great Advert Game for ach, whose reading isn't so good.

Comments

[marjory.livejournal.com]

Ooh - so I'm the German outpost now, am I? :)

So long as the post hasn't fsailed me in the outward direction I'm happy (but mostly because I'm a big kid who is looking forward to opening/looking at/reading more than one entry at a time...).

[cuthbertcross.livejournal.com]

I've got an exciting pile of little coloured bags with postcards inside them. Some of them even have lumpy bits in :o) Today I got a little message explaining the calendar of Exciting Ideas, and some funky stickers with which I intend to festoon my desk.

(and Marjory, sorry for the delay! I posted your calendar on the 28th which is pants for getting to Germany on time, but hopefully it'll be with you soon courtesy of Royal Mail (ho, ho ho!))

[marjory.livejournal.com]

(you have ruined the surprise! Just kidding!)

(Oh - and as I said - I will get to look at more than one entry to begin with, which is great for me, so no sweat! :))

[ebee.livejournal.com]

oooh...yours is from me then- hello!!!

[marjory.livejournal.com]

And it arrived! Thank you! A drinks calendar! I've only opened #1 so far, which contains a Choc Option, something which is hard to get over here and for which I have been longing!

Thank you! :)

(and we've been reading ebee's calendar from last year. It's still brilliant!)

[dmh.livejournal.com]

Ack, I knew that Pritt Sticking glitter was going to be a big mistake, I can see the damage from here!

I rather like my calendar (made by Emma), even though it only goes up to 21 days, probably on account of its maker being a hippy. :oD It has a nice picture on the front of the Sun during last years Winter Solstice, and the itty-bitty pictures so far are of Jack Skellington (being Santa) and some candles.