I’ve changed my mind. Let’s do the Virtual Advent Tour after all.
For those unfamiliar with it, the Virtual Advent Tour (hosted here last year and previously on Blogspot) has its roots in the paper Christmas accessory. Daily, you’d open a numbered door that corresponds to the date, revealing a picture (or bit of chocolate) beneath it. In this case, instead of a tasty morsel or drawing, every day between Dec. 1 and Dec. 24, you get a blog/vlog post from around the internet. These posts share how their authors celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, solstice, and/or other winter holidays with favorite customs, memories, songs, foods, photos, books, events, and other traditions. To make sure everyone knows where to go, every day I’ll post with the address(es).
Does this sound like fun? Would you be willing to compose a post or two to make this successful this year? What you share is completely up to you, and you don’t need to let me know the topic ahead of time. All that I ask is that you have your post published by midnight your time the evening before the date(s) you pick.
If you’d like to participate, please leave me a comment on this post telling me what date(s) you’d like. I’ll update this post as people claim days. And I’ll work on creating a badge for those who want it tonight. For those who want it, you can find three sizes of the badge after the jump.
150px:
250px:
500px (sized down here to 400px to stay in the column):
Feel free to save any of them to use on your site if you want.
| Dec. 1: sprite Dec. 2: Zoe Dec. 3: sprite Dec. 4: sprite Dec. 5: As Kat Knits Dec. 6: Rudi Dec. 7: raidergirl3 Dec. 8: Jo Kay Dec. 9: Dec. 10: Bridget Dec. 11: Tami Dec. 12: Aine |
Dec. 13: Rudi Dec. 14: Dec. 15: raidergirl3 (if no one else wants it) Dec. 16: Jo Kay Dec. 17: Tami Dec. 18: Tasha Dec. 19: As Kat Knits Dec. 20: Molly Dec. 21: Deb Nance Dec. 22: Dec. 23: Bridget Dec. 24: Teri |
I’ll take 7th and 15th (but if some one else wants the 15th, grab away!)
Comment by raidergirl3 11.30.16 @ 12:13 pmI was just thinking about this fun blogging event last week! I’d love to participate I think I will write about our stocking tradition, so perhaps later in the month might be best – perhaps the 20th(?)
Comment by Molly 11.30.16 @ 10:37 pm[…] And if you’re interested in taking part in the tour, details and sign-up info can be found here. We’d love to have you […]
Pingback by sprite writes 12.01.16 @ 5:50 amI was wondering if Virtual Advent Tour would be happening this year, but I was super late to think about it, I think it was last weekend, and I even saw your mid-November post, but I thought you wouldn’t be doing it because of the lack of interest. But I’m glad we’re doing it after all!
I’d love to take December 8th and 16th. (Now, what will I post? 😉 To brainstorming it is. (Well I do have at least one idea.))
Comment by Jo Kay 12.01.16 @ 6:22 amI’d like the 10th and the 23rd if possible.
So glad you’re going to do this! I’ll see if I can rustle up some other people too.
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