Discovered in a Christmas Cracker

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Well, this really is the closing post for our Discovered in a Christmas Cracker challenge - thank you so much to everyone who took part, whether creating or reading and commenting and encouraging all the people who posted! Our Pros community always looks so gorgeous over winter/Christmas/December-January/Solstice-time, because of all the people who join in and make it gorgeous - you're all brilliant!

I never really know whether anyone uses this but myself, but you'll now find that the calendar links to the posts of each person on their day - click on the 1st December, for instance, and you'll find murphybabe's contribution, click on the 2nd and you'll find moonlightmead's fic for the day (click on the 5th and you'll find all her posts for that day!). If you missed a day in the calendar, you can hover over it to see who posted, and click on it for those posts to come up.

You will also find a link to the entire challenge on the community User Information page (and to all previous challenges, of course... *g*), and you can search the community by author via the tag system too (there's an lj link at the top of the User Info page to all the comm tags) and you'll also find them here - clicking on an author's name will bring up everything they've contributed to the community (ignore tags that end in things like "cracker" or "tree", we use those to make the calendar and user info page links, of course!).

1st Yellow paper hat	2nd Whistle	3rd Plastic toy	4th Fortune-telling fish	5th Red paper hat
6th A bad joke	7th Plastic moustache	8th Pair of dice	9th Spinning top	10th Green paper hat
11th Plastic toy	12th Bad joke	13th Plastic false teeth	14th Tiny plastic car	15th Purple paper hat
16th Shiny plastic ring	17th A bad joke	18th Yellow paper hat	19th Plastic hopping frog	20th A keyring
21st Sliding block puzzle	22nd Pair of dice	23rd Fortune-telling fish	24th Plastic whistle	25th
26th Red paper hat	27th Plastic false moustache	28th A bad joke	29th Plastic whistle	30th Shiny plastic ring
31st Fortune-telling fish				1st sc_fossil
2nd Sliding letters game	3rd A bad joke	4th A key-ring	5th Plastic hopping frog	6th Spinning Top

I hope this isn't too much for anyone's flist - I thought it would be nice to have one final glimpse of our gorgeous Cracker calendar.

Thanks again - and look out for the next discoveredinalj post...

Comments

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

The writing on each icon in the calendar is actually the date (of course!) and a prompt for that date, for the post-er to use if they wish. Some people did, some people didn't. They change each year, depending on the challenge - this year they were all toys that you might find in a Christmas cracker.

The three empty spaces aren't empty spaces at all, and definitely aren't due to lack of contributions - every single day of the calendar was filled with a volunteer! The calendar runs from the 1st of December to the 6th January (Epiphany/twelfth day of Christmas) which is 37 days, but we had to make the table 5 x 8 (40) squares to fit that many days in - so there were three squares "left over". We left them between the end of the old year and the start of the new just because that seemed the right place to put them! Waaaay back on our first Winter/Solstice/Christmas/etc challenge (http://discoveredinalj.livejournal.com/tag/mistletoe) we had enough extra contributions to add 3 more days to the calendar, so we squooshed them along and had all the squares filled, but that's the only time that's happened... so far. *g*

[franciskerst.livejournal.com]

That seems quite obvious when explained. My sight is very low indeed. I'm glad I didn't notice the prompt for I wouldn't have found anything to make with it. Again thanks for all the big work going with the challenge.