Wednesday’s Weekly Reader: Advent is Upon Us!

I’m not gunna lie: I felt a little panicky when I got back from vacation and had 850+ unread posts in my feedreader this week. Ack! I ended up marking-all-as-read to a lot of them just to help my sanity. Not that it has any bearing on today’s links because I’ve been gearing up for this one for several weeks!

My favorite season of the year is Finally upon us: Advent! I just love the anticipation of Christmas approaching and the magic that’s in the air. Not to mention, there’s something rather satisfying about opening a door a day and revealing a tastey little piece of chocolate or a surprise (or even just removing a paper chain link). To celebrate, I’m sharing the fun I’ve come across below:

Advent Calendars to Buy:

• What better way to count down than with Typography? Verlag Hermann Schmidt‘s Adfontskalendar from Judith Schalansky lets you do just that! (via Slanted)
  
• Poppytalk had a whole post about cute Advent Calendars that are around this season. This one especially caught my eye because it would also work nicely with St. Nicholas day coming up this Saturday (Dec. 6):
  
• Lego has an advent calendar: who knew? (Seen at Barnes and Noble)
  

Advent Calendars to Make:

• DesignSponge had a really awesome Advent Garland how-to recently if you’re feeling crafty and happen to have extra envelopes lying around…
  
• Maria of Stickers and Donuts found this handy template on-line if you want to create your own:
  

Advent Calendars On-line:

• Grain Edit’s Dave guest-blogged about vintage Advent Calendars on Design Sponge a while back: makes for good eye-candy…
  
• Slanted is posting a “lyrisch-illustrativen Adventskalender” each day by pairing an illustration with a poem if you’re up to reading some German…
  
  The series of posts is mainly to promote their book of the same name:
  

And finally, another look at a truely inspired ad campaign:

Tags | Advent, Calendar, Christmas