And the calendar pages blew

[venta]

Well. It's Novemeber. The clocks have gone back, Hallowe'en is past, it's getting chilly outside and ebee is hassling the hell out of me.

You know what that means ?

Yup, it's time to declare open season on the Great Advent Game. Said Game requires you to manufacture some form of Advent Calendar and post it to an address I give you. In return, a handmade calendar from some far-flung corner will arrive for you in time for December 1st.

It's worked pretty well the past two years, when a dozen or so calendars have ended up travelling around in the post. I think the PO has let us down a few times (it lost my calendar, sent to Ebee, for a spectacularly long time last year).

I've had two 24-door calendars: A beautifully hand-drawn cartoon one from thurisaz_art in 2005, and a monumentally unconventional and hilarious one from dmh last year. I've heard tell of other people receiving flash web calendars, hot-drinks-based calendars, complicated mobiles and a variety of other stuff.

Signing up below doesn't commit you irretrievably - I'll mail people in a couple of weeks and see who's on course for completion and who's still interested in playing.

[Poll #1080902]

Please point any of your friends who're likely to be interested in this direction - the more the messier merrier. Anyone who can't fill in polls, please comment if you want to get in on the act.

Comments

[ebee.livejournal.com]

Hassling to hell...nah..this is only mild agitating- you should see me when I'm trying to get someone to become an assistant Rainbow Guider!!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Poetic licence... I don't really think you've been hassling with menaces ;)

Re: Hi!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Hello, come on in. Nice to meet you :)

[darcydodo]

Over here from taimatsu.

It's a fantastic idea, and I'd love to participate, but I'm horribly busy through much of November, so I don't know if I'd be able to get the calendar to someone by December 1. Which I suppose is really the third poll-option, but... :)

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! I have inspiration! Now I just need to remember that this needs to be done before December, rather than before Christmas...

[venta.livejournal.com]

Woo :)

I'll prod people for any more entrants tomorrow then start mailing everyone.

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

Hello there - I replied to your advent calendar email but haven't had a response yet, and I know we're supposed to be posting tomorrow.

Also, I haven't finished the calendar - I can, but I won't bother if for some reason my emails didn't get through and so I've missed the boat...

[venta.livejournal.com]

Please do finish it! I'm terribly sorry not to have replied to your mails, I've been away and really busy at work and other such excuses. I'm actually just compiling definitive lists of who sends what to whom and so forth. An address to which to dispatch your calendar will land with you by tomorrow, promise :)