Advent Calendar: Day Three

Day Three's Advent offering begins with a silver reflective number to mark the outside,


and opens to show three miniature playing cards and a bingo marker.


And because it's so hard to see these up close and personal, here is a recap of the first three days after they were opened. I hope you are enjoying these. I had so much fun making them, and I have a ton more jewelry boxes, which means I could make another one.

I had a bit of a problem (OK, big problem) with my internet connection again yesterday, and couldn't log on. Seems the electric company is trimming trees in my area, and they have caused some power outages for both phone service (which means my internet, too) and electric power lines. They are trying to prevent the very problem they seem to be creating. This could go on up to two weeks, I'm told when I finally got through to the electric company. I was so glad it was a gorgeous day, sunny and beautiful with a high in the low 60s. So, I didn't need electricity or heat, and decided to get some much needed errands out of the way before it turned cold last night (well actually tonight when I'm writing this). Pretty upsetting when I wanted to post to my blog, but good that I got some running out of the way on a gorgeous day. So, I owe two blogs, one for yesterday and one for today. And to make certain I get at least one blog entry today, I am posting this from a friend's house and am scheduling this post for six am. Let's hope my internet/phone line is up and running again soon. I'm going bonkers.

Yesterday's blog is Green Paper written by Mary Green. Now I realize a lot of this blog is about advertising her various collage sheets, classes, etc., but when I first discovered her blog, it was all about beautiful collages. Imagine my surprise when I returned yesterday to find most posts were pimping her wares. But that's OK, because interspersed with the self promotion is a smathering of lovely glue book type collages as well as some really incredible freebies. So, if you like vintage, you should give this one a peek.

Today's blog is Nicole Lahy, a graphic designer and artist who lives in Wisconsin. I thoroughly enjoyed her watercolors and woodcuts, although I found the woodcut images slow to load, even on a very fast internet connection. Her web site is well worth a peek, though, because there is a great deal of clever art and graphic design on it.