Back in 2018, out of a whim, I started the Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar on my instagram account. The idea was to create a digital version of the much cherished Advent Calendar of my childhood for my followers, something whimsical and ephemeral and very very old fashioned. In the years that followed I chose themes and created the calendar around those, publishing the daily entries here on the blog for certain years. I think you all really liked it, especially those of you who also follow my ventures and ramblings through instagram, where it’s all perhaps a bit more intimate and engaging. I for my part have always thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
I will share this year’s Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar again through daily blog posts whenever possible (my subscription on WordPress doesn’t include uploading videos, so I’ll link those entries to instagram). I thoroughly hope you’ll be stopping by and have fun indulging in these little windows of oldfashionedness. This year’s theme? Pssst, it’s a well guarded secret only to be lifted on the first day of December! Looking forward to seeing you peep through this digital door then!
*This is Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar! Advent calendars are a big tradition where I come from: every day until Christmas Day you prepare a small gift for a loved one, fourandtwenty little surprises. Advent calendars come in beautifully old fashioned prints on cardboard, extra glitter and glory, and each day there’s a little perforated window waiting for you be opened. Others are more elaborate, pretty baskets filled with twenty four numbered parcels, red velvet ribbons and sprigs of fir. The one I’m making for you this season is a different one altogether, it comes in digital form. Unless specially marked, all content is hand-stitched by myself, lovingly compiled and written for your amusement.
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