day twenty of the advent calendar picture challenge – it’s a donkey

here is today’s photo:

although the actual photo should be this one. if it hadn’t been for the advent challenge we may not have found this find !

people have a lovely time at christmas. here some jolly types had, wait for it, drawn a smiley face on a transparent bag of waste paper and written ‘mr snowman’ at the bottom ! brilliant. i hope it made the bin men smile as much as it did me.

day nineteen of the advent calendar picture challenge – it’s another wise man

here is my photo. it’s my company’s CEO’s mouth.
i was sitting next to him at our xmas lunch and he’s obviously a very wise man. i say that not especially because he might be reading this. but he might be.

christmas is all about shopping, chocolate and jesus.
the office cleaners have focussed on the chocolate element. here is a big box of chocolates they have given the office as a present to say thanks for all the mess we’ve left them to clean up over the last 12 months.

i saw very little sign of life this morning whilst walking to work. even the street cleaners were thinner on the ground (quite literally). but i did see some evidence of night-before partying.
here is an estate agents office. through the window i could see a bottle of champagne and a half empty glass on this person’s desk. i assume this is from last night, but maybe it’s a very bling-blingy hair-of-the-dog ?

and here is someone’s bow tie. i’m sure there’s a story behind it’s removal. you’ll have to make that up yourselves.

day eighteen of the advent calendar picture challenge – it’s an angel

here is the day’s photo. it’s of the angel from our christmas tree which we didn’t put away in the christmas decorations box in january. it’s been up all year which has been nice.

hasn’t she got the coolest hair and halo ?

jane has been as busy as a busy bee. i was a little busy, but only at the implimentation and printing stage. jane drove the concept, construction and dispatch phase.
“what am i on about ?” you ask. “christmas cards” i answer.
2003
i’m not going to reveal our 2003 christmas card just yet as some readers will be receiving their’s by the method of her majesty’s royal mail.
(others will have already seen it and are here to claim their money back guarantee).
update: you can see 2003’s here
however, here are some ones of years gone by for your delight. it’s interesting to see how things have progressed. my photo shop skills have improved for sure !
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2002
a paper nativity with movable characters. the first few photos are from the photo shoot. this was kezia’s first appearance
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the final card and commemorative top trump card (i went a bit photoshop mad last year):

2001
kezia hadn’t been born and esther was an angel.


2000
esther as a toddler

1999
what was i thinking. it must have been the 6 months of sleepless nights with esther which made this such a poor entry. i can only apologise to anyone who received this card for the quality.

1998
this wasn’t too bad – i stuck our heads on someone else’s picture i think

1997
the earliest card on electronic record. we were married in 1996 and i don’t think we did anything fancy card-wise that year (i don’t think we even had a proper computer). but we did by 1997 and we went kerazee !

day seventeen of the advent calendar picture challenge – it’s a candle

and here is my photo. finding a shop in london which sold forks (so i could take a picture of their handles) was quite a challenge. see this two ronnies sketch for an explanation