Waiting for Christmas

Enjoy a visit ... feel free to add something of your own. A friendly kick to encourage my lazy muse is welcome. If you want to give me an extra push come as a bauble head - in case you are in the club already - to spread the Holiday feeling ... otherwise I'll make you one! ^^
"'tis the season to be bauble falalalalalaaaalalalalaaaaaaaa...."


Advent Calendar 2017 - Echoes of the Past















The 12 Nights 2012 - Villians, Rogues and Monsters









There will be no 12 Nights 2017 ... unless I'll get plenty of time. Who knows.
EDIT: The Nights 2017 found their way in the calendar itself. With all the cuteness of the children repost I figured it won't hurt to have some darker echoes after Christmas. Good and evil spirits will roam these nights.

Advent Calendar 2012 - Cubs, Fawns, Pips ... Reloaded

Advent Calendar 2012 - Cubs, Fawns, Pips ... - extension










extended extension - too many children and Recognitions were left...






... begging for attention and love.

I did my best to capture all the little ones with exception of the Forevergreen bunch for obvious reasons (and Final Quest  - for reason of respect).

Bluething does indeed, Petalwing!

Such a lovely bauble! I love the color and background of it! All the colors fit together!

The Advent Calendars are built - two calendars again. Accompany each other. Complement each other. Christmas season 2017 offers:

Advent Calendar 2017 - Echoes of the Past
Memories and shadows, magic and artefacts, even survivors from the far past of Elvin history on the World of Two Moons - influencing individuals and communities one way or the other. It's also an opportunity to show unnoticed faces - you will meet unkown extras and well established characters.

The 12 Nights 2012 - Villians, Rogues and Monsters
A place for the dark side of EQ  - no new ones this time but a repost. True villians and cruel sights. Rogues and ambivalent characters or doubtful deeds. Threatening events and hidden evil. And whatever else my mind envisions ...

Holiday Specials 2016
The celebration of Christmas, New Year and Three Kings Day as usual. New ones for this season and the repost.

Advent Calendar 2012 - Cubs, Fawns, Pips ... Reloaded
... accompanied by the moments of Recognition. Prepare for cuteness overload! It will be a loooong repost - this calendar got an extention that could count as a calendar of its own. Christmas goes til Easter ^^ ... almost!
As the days follow the dates of 2012 the numbers will be slightly off. Don't mind - there will be one new window open every day.

Extra Treats - Showing Belly
Again there will be no new ones - the repost complements the 2012 calendar theme. Those scenes, dropped in the thread randomly, will keep it colorful and lively.




... and of course as many Baubleheads as needed!

Yay!!!!

I fully agree that you should go with the long 're posting schedule, to much Christmas isn't a bad thing! Sometimes I get sad when everything immediately ends right after Christmas so going longer is going to be like an extra Christmas present.

All the baubles are beautiful! I especially like Shadowpaths, the shape of her character perfectly fits the baubles and I also love Mrs Grizzly's both are so cute!

Petalwing! So cute!

Love the wolf!
And Suntop was so tiny!

There wasn't a Showing Belly segment when the 2012 calendar was originally posted, was there? So... it would have to be new stuff.

Yay, G0lden!!!  It has begun ... and this season will take long, Evie.
It makes me happy that you like what you see The next nine weeks will present you at least one picture per day ... and sometimes four. ^^

Petalwing has definitely more than one fan! Reason enough to do my best to bring at least one Preserver in the annual calendar - or make them accompany it in the extra scenes. I still remember the fun when I turned Leetah's rich red locks into Embala's blue tresses - and the pleasant anticipation to show it as the introduction picture. ^^ You've rewarded me once again, Wolfie.

Of course the first day of the season brought you back to the thread, Redhead ... still our eager chieftess. Take another look at the "wolf" ... there's more in it. ^^
There absolutely was a "Showing Belly" segment in the season 2012 - lots of pictures. Of course you had to follow the thread itself to notice them - not only the Advent calendar!




There!
Suntop points to the magic, to festive lights, to the Advent calendar itself ...

When you see this picture show up as a tiny thumbnail - click it and Suntop will bring you right to this season's calendar post. The picture is the link - literally.

Advent Calendar 2017 - Echoes ... The child is the link!

Yay!!!! New and old pretties.

I love The child is the link! image you made!! Suntop is perfect for it!
Echoes of the Past! I like this theme!

A wolf as the first bauble! Glad to see that a wolf makes it in. I wonder, which wolf is it? Very nice bauble, Embala!

Eldolil!! I love this young image of him. I'm glad he made it here! Very nice golden bauble!

Advent Calendar 2012 - Cubs, Fawns, Pips! Nice repost! I love seeing some old baubles from back then! I still remember these AND I still love these baubles!

Golden star with Suntop in it *waves back*. I love that it looks like he's pushing his face against a window and waves! XD

Toorah and Sun Toucher! Beautiful color baubles! I love the light reflections in it! I do wonder why they look so terrified about, especially Sun Toucher!

I can't wait to see more beautiful baubles!

I feel like I know who that guy is... Eldolil?

Sun-Toucher and Toorah I do indeed recognize. Or... I mean... they recognized each other.

So much to remember and what a fun way to do it.

Sounds like you are on a walk down memory lane, G0lden. Enjoy the trip. And feel free to ask if a window is too small or too much obscured to be recognizable for you. *hug*

You take a close look at each window and give love for every one, Wolfie. Is the first motive so small that "the wolf" is not recognizable? I'd say the wolf resembles Nightrunner ... but the eyes belong to someone else. And if you take a really close look you'll see the truth behind - remember the motto: Echoes of the Past! ^^
Good guess on golden Eldolil - this is either him or the vision of a random High One.
"... pushing his face against a window and waves!" is probably exactly what Suntop would have done!  
Toorah and Suntoucher *chuckles* - not terrified, Wolfie ... yet struck by Recognition! It makes me proud that you point out the "reflections" in those baubles - I've used them in a clever way to complete the original portraits! ^^

Exactly, dear Redhead - most probably Eldolil and a Recognition indeed. The first of many. ^^


and now ... the belly parade can begin!

Ah, Eyes-High.

And Lord Voll and a little one.

THANKS !


I am SO glad that our dear Creator of Christmas Baubles is back to work !

Keep the wonders coming, dear elf-friend !

My eyes see them with joy.

Hello there, Voll (and Petalwing.)

Teeny-tiny Dewshine.

... and Eyes High showing belly sitting in her tree nest. Looks like you'll miss the extra treats in the thread posts once again, Redhead.

Wow Embala!! you are doing so much stuff this year, it is wonderful!

I love seeing Voll and Petalwing, and cheerful Suntop he spreads warmth in these cold days.
Eyes High looks perfect amoung the stalks of a succulent, it reflects the scene at the top of a tree very well.

Thank you Embala for spreading such christmas joy

So it was Nightrunner! I couldn't tell for some reason...

WOW! Such a beautiful bauble of Eyes High! I love that she's sitting in a tree nest and that you made her bauble look smaller in the background! The background fits this all so well with her story! Perfectly done, Embala!

I love what you did with the baubles of Voll and Petalwing
A small bauble looking at a big bauble. Voll meeting Petalwing for the first time! A great moment!

Awww little Dewshine! She was even younger here then I remember! Such a cute little bauble!

edited: So it was recognition! Thanks for the link Embala, I do remember now!

You are welcome, PC ! I see you still love this special piece.
It's a pleasure to create another annual calendar - and repost what got lost. I love to know you are still an attentive happy lurker. My eyes see with joy.

This time Suntop cooperated nicely!

Your loving comments warm my heart, Beryl. Thank you for visiting and sharing Advent time with us.

*chuckles* Not exactly Nightrunner, Wolfie - take a look here and you'll realize that it's Cutter in a way. ^^
This ornament picture was just made for Eyes High - you've described exactly what have drawn me to it. And there was a flashback with little Dewshine - a precious scene.
Stay tuned for more Recognitions!

Beautiful work Em! I love the fact that you have Winnowill in the background and to the side of Lord Voll and Petalwing. Petalwing's little bauble is so cute!

The Purple colors for all of the pip, cub and fawn baubles fit very nicely and make me feel all warm and fuzzy. Dewshine is so tiny, sometimes I forget how tiny she used to be. Squeals upon seeing cresent.

Eyes-high looks perfect in her nest, so calm and happy, almost makes me imagine a different ending to her story.

Aw, Little Suntop bauble for PC! I love the shape of the bauble! Looks really nice!

A beautiful gold bauble! I don't know who it is though. I probably do but, right now I can't remember.

Aww and here we have a bauble with Crescent in it with her little wolf friend.
I'm glad she is here! Such a shame that she died so young in the story. I wonder who she would have been if she was still alive! I love that the background is black. it somehow fits with the colors of the bauble.

Embala wrote:

*chuckles* Not exactly Nightrunner, Wolfie - take a look here and you'll realize that it's Cutter in a way. ^^

OooooooH! I remember that page but, looking at that bauble I would have never guessed it! Now that I look closer... I can see Timmorn! Now I see it!

Hmm... who's that? (in the new one)
And lovely Crescent with Windchaser.

Welcome Evie! Great eye to spot Winnowill - obscured and in the background. She had sent the Preservers away, she belongs in the scene!
Looks like you've found your favorite cub early - Crescent was a very nice and cooperative model.
And as far as Eyes High is concerned our mind is free to make up other endings.

Crescent gets lots of love today! She is a well known character ... in opposite to the ancient elf in the 2017 calendar. Familiar in a way, Wolfie ...  yet unknown - a background character from a flashback. An echo from the farest past. Two more characters from this scene will show up in coming baubles.

Look for a flashback with Timmorn, Redhead  ... in case you are up for a quest. Or - wait til I'll post a link sooner or later.