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14th Day of Advent. Heavy snow & Hare missed her mother desperately, so she brought out her old button tin & laid the button-jewels in patterns across the kitchen table. Pearl, ceramic, gilt, glass & plastic, enamelled, shanked, roped & fisheye, in every colour, shape & size.

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Behind the curtain of today's advent calendar is the amazing Snuffy & Zoey Book 1 - The Dragon & The Cupcake from
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2019-12-14

13th Day of Advent. The Fox was called out to a cottage in the hamlet. One of the mother mice there was inconsolable. Frightened for her children. He tucked her into bed, made the little mice chocolate & told them all a story about courage, how it hardens & blazes under duress.

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2019-12-13

A full on illustration for today’s I found a bit of “me time” with my art this week.

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2019-12-12

This flu is driving me crackers now (see what I did there?). Here are a couple for today’s Have a great day illustrators 😊.

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2019-12-11

11th Day of Advent. Edging the forest of Fontainebleau, Rosa Bonheur's tower bedroom is flooded with winter light. Gilt bird cages, easels, paints, typewriter, dark velvet bed, animals below, electric lights illuminating the darkness. O I have made the forest my temple, she says

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2019-12-10

10th Day of Advent. Exhausted by falsehoods, the Fox & the Girl walk deep into the birch woods for twigs to gild. How can they lie so much, she asks. Because they've lost their souls, he says. Where? Sold 'em. For money, for vanity, for power, for hurt. Oh, she says. Oh.

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7th Day of Advent. A Snow Goose is flying over the Fens, under a sky fretted with winter stars. She traces the water lines & frost ways & hedge tracks, plotting by steeple & manor & field, until she reaches the cottage & the Girl, half-orphaned & in need of a wise friend.

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7th Day of Advent. She is shopping for Christmas presents on Finsbury Square, at Messrs. Lackington, Allen & Co.'s Temple of the Muses, finest bookshop in London. Helped by an anxious young man, she buys volumes by Maria Edgeworth, Catherine Selden, Hannah More & Madame de Genlis

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2019-12-07

December 7th of Well this wouldn’t be much use today as there is still no sign of snow. I can’t remember the last time it snowed at Christmas. Maybe this year 🙏🏻.

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2019-12-07

The 7th day of
Will you be eating figgy pudding at Christmas? This tradition dates back to 16th century when fig trees became commonplace in English gardens. This hand-coloured botanical illustration by Johann Muller (or John Miller) dates from 1777.

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2019-12-07

Day 5 of Who doesn’t love a mince pie? Me, for years. I mean all those years I missed out just because I didn’t like the look of them. Then I tasted one and I was gone. 😋

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2019-12-05

Don't forget to mail your letters to Santa! Here's an illo from last year's illo advent. I'll see if I can squeeze some new ones this year.

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2019-12-04

Fourth Day of Advent. An unloved girl put on her cloak & went to the river. She waded into the icy water, but was tugged back by a wolf, who told her to live. He found her strong medicine, rooms with a kind family, hearty food & the deep constancy of love from a dying old wolf.

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December 2nd and day 2 of Don’t forget to feed our feathered friends. It’s Christmas time for them too you know. (Top tip - sell the best bird feed around 😉).

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2019-12-02

The Second Day of Advent. Down to the creek she runs, in velvet the colour of hawthorn syrup. Boots soaked in snow; overhead, gulls wheel & call. He's there, on his boat, copper kettle whistling on the little black stove. Book half-finished. I am really truly happy, she thought.

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2019-12-02

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2019-12-01

THREAD: In our Diocese we have the Bishop's Pastoral Letter for the 1st Sunday of Advent. It's really inspiring, if you are a climate activist or lack interest in the Catholic Faith. "Ecological conversion" is a "very urgent matter" unlike, say, conversion to Christ the Lord.

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