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To Sue Macleod,
31st December.
Being the first zoom-in of a seriously intense picture.

Happy New Year to you and yours Sue x

Link to the collection of "Advents";
http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html

Link for Wendy, "the seasons"
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150344537516424.399547.707526423&type=3#!/photo.php?fbid=10150344539051424&set=a.10150344537516424.399547.707526423&type=1&theater

What went wrong.

I thought I was diligently saving the file that I had been working on for a couple of weeks, and in the process managed to step on a faulty plug. The machine shut down and immediately restarted.
Phew! I thought, lucky I saved that image. This unfortunately was not to be; it was only part way through saving it.

I always thought that I would simply loose the work I had done that day or something similar. As it happened, it managed to screw up a lot more than that!

It was a drag as I was working on that one as the last giant image of the series. Due out the next day.
I managed to bodge it up and at present am working on finishing it off again. I am getting there but in order to tie up with the top two thirds it is taking considerably longer to get back to where I was.
Never mind.

Apart from that, I just have bought a V.H.S. copying tool.
It looks like I will be able to edit a whole load of stuff fromm long ago and which may well turn into my next stuff on line - - although I do have plans to start putting a Calendar together, something I have been working on for ages.

Christmas Eve

I was going to send this to everybody, but the machine scewed up my picture and I cant fit the reconstruction around my family commitment dictates.
There you go.
whilst saving the image, I accidentaly put my foot on the plug which shut off and destroyed the bottom third of a weeks worth of work - it actually turned it yellow maybe I should post it.
I was going to tag everybody I know on this one, make it really mad.
Shit happens.

Season's Greetings to Everyone, Everywhere -
Coming to you today from the Massed Choir of Swinging Elfs
Performing in the Birmingham Amphitheatre at Brookvale Lake, under Spaghetti Junction.

23ism

To Martin Humphries,
23rd December.
I did it my way.

Link to culminating posse of advent stuff:
http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html

All the twos

To Anne Brierley,
22nd December.
three "rescues" for your pack.

 

Link to the compendium of advents:

http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html

 

21 end of the world, as we know it.

To Tom Wiersma and Alison Campbell.
21st December.

Perfect timing on at least two fronts then.

Soon we will be sailors, sailing on a salty sea,

with the waves of the world our only company.

 

Link to compendium of Advents:

http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html

Twenty (how many?)

To all chaps.
20th December.
A years supply of the right kind of beer.

link to the collection of advents:
http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html

n,n,n,19.

To Kim Wiersma,
19th December.
It does what it says on the label.

Link to grand grouping of Advents:
http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html

18th Carol

To Richard Butler.
18th December.
Another song.

 

Link to main collection of Advents:
http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html
 

17th day

To Khalid,
17th December.
A golden winged ship.

 

Link to collection of Advent Posts:

http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html

 

 

only 16 what can I say?

To Dave Checkley,
16th December,
A smattering of primary elfs.

Link to a bigger smatter:
http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html

 



15th Wonder

To Elaine and Colin Chapman,
15th December.
The Wonder that is Advent.

 

Link to the Advent Collective:

 http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html

Coined 14th

To Olga Humphries,
14th December.

 

 

Something to loose in the Christmas Pudding

 

Link to the collection of Advents:
http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html
 



Advent with luck factor

To Mary Romaine,
13th December.
A night at the opera, (or is it pantomime?)

link to the other dozen so far:
http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html

An Advent Dozen

To Derek Jones,
12th December.
Away from it all.

 

Link to the compendium of advents:

http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html

 



11 Advents

To Jeanette Thomas,
11th December.
An advent post for you, its a bird house within a house.

and a link to the page where I have collected all the advents together:

http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html

 



ten up

To John Rogers,
December 10th.
A climbing frame to keep you in trim.

 

Are you still in Iceland?

Link to thegrowing collection of "Advents":

 http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html

 



number 9 number 9

To Phil x Will Gray
One I started earlier (more than ten years earlier)
entitled "a happy marriage" - dont you think they look exactly like you?

 

Link to the Advent "collection":

http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html



Come in no 8

To Bob Meecham.
8th December.
Three Premature Kings.

Link to the "collection":

 http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html

 

 

The Severnf

To Nigel Amson and Sabine Gollner,
A Wendy House for the kids.

 

Link to the "collection" of posts:

http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html

 

x

 

Advent Day 6

To Eleanor Avery,
December 6th

Tigger

A smug, but loving pet.

"I didn't get all the cream - just most of it"

 

 

Link to all the advent posts so far:
http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html
 



5 aday Advent

5th December,
.
A travelling clock accompanied by the 4th Christmas elf.

here's the link to the " advent collection"

http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html



Forth Day

4th DEcember

To Linda Sheppard,
Its a television set-but not a normal one-it simply enhances what you are dwelling on, and can elongate your ideas.

And, the amazing thing about this telly is that you can turn it off when you want to.

p.s. walk like an Egyptian
Link to the page that is collecting all the posts together:
http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html

x

3rd Elf DAy

3rd December.

To Peter Flack.

You get the first elf Pete

An Elf named Flak

 

For a view of the whole scheme link to:

 http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html

 

 

Advent Calendar 2nd Day

2nd December.

To Mal Williams.

Concerning the "everybodies" - together, we are strong.

I'm trying to send one of these everyday to someone I know. Your last two posts inspired me !!!!!



I posted this off yesterday but I'm not sure if it got through!



Advent One

1st December 2012.
To Simon Smythe,
Being the first Advent present, I was unsure what to give you, in some ways these things ought to reflect something- maybe our relationship, or maybe whats going on in the world at present.
So you have got a kind of rag doll - ( I'd make those sad rags into glad rags if I could [hand me down] )
Having said that and seeing that its Christmas, I will try to make them all reasonably upbeat.
Martin.



I am building a page in "Umphries" with all of these on it, link:

 

http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/advent-calendar.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Advent Calendar

There have been two things I have been meaning to do for year after year. And I always suffer for not doing them about this time of year.
Maybe I am making a new years resolution early.

An Advent Calendar.
In my workshop there is a little note reading "How small is a shrine? (or indeed, how small can it be?)
I have been thinking about, planning and composing a set of recepticals for ten years, some early ideas will follow.
This would also give me the chance to draw out a little gift each day - maybe "give" them to someone. And sometimes fit them in a little home.

An actual Calendar.
Maybe call it "Perennial" or something like that: The (historical) symbols being something that have been used again and again from Roman times onwards.