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It's November again, which means its time to get organised for the 15th annual December/January/Winter/Christmas/Solstice/Bacchanalia/Let-There-Be-Light type Pros festival! Let's see if there are enough of us still to fill the calendar for one more year. *g*

If you'd like to participate in our Pros December-Christmas-Winter-Solstice-festival-of-light-of-all-kinds challenge (please do!), then you simply need to choose a free date from the calendar and let me know in the comments. That day is then yours to post something Pros-y and somehow seasonal to the comm. It doesn't have to be Christmas-y, it could just be winter-ish, or it could be related to another celebration or festival - Divali or Hanukkah, or ~~Bodie~~ Bodhi Day, or to celebrate the long summer (cos you're in the southern half of the world...) Your post might be inspired by the prompt on the calendar day you choose (this year it's the colours of shining baubles!) - or not. It might even be completely anti-Christmas (although a passing reference to fit into the challenge would be nice), and just be a present offered to any Pros fans passing through the com. You can post as often as you like on that day - just once, half a dozen times, every hour on the hour - it's entirely yours to be as Pros-y as you'd like to be.

The hope is that people will receive something Pros in their flist (or by visiting the comm) every day leading up to Christmas, and even through and to the New Year.

It doesn't have to be fic that's posted, of course - although that's always brilliant, obviously - it could be art, or icons or other graphics, or it could be something completely different. Your own Pros trivia quiz? Doyle's letter to Santa? Betty's Christmas card list? Start a discussion about why Cowley adores winter and the lads hate it? Make up a Pros wordsearch puzzle, or colouring-in page! Post that scan you have of a pic no one else would see otherwise! Anything connected to our lads and CI5 is welcome. *g*

As ever, I'm happy to post for you, if you'd rather not do it yourself for any reason (such as Christmas being a hugely busy time for many people!), or if you don't have a livejournal - just drop me an email to my email on the User Info page. If you'd like to offer "extra content" that can be slotted into days nobody has claimed, or if someone has a disaster and can't fill their day after all, that would be greatly appreciated as well!

Please sign up as soon as possible (so that I can organise for whatever days appear to be empty etc.) but feel free to sign up any time the comm is running – if you're suddenly inspired on 16th December to post on the 17th, and it's still an empty day, then comment below and go for it (let me know though, because I will have tried to arrange extra content for that day!)

If you'd like more than one day then that's almost certainly do-able these days - but I'll give you one to start with, let everyone else have a chance at the most popular days, and then allocate second (third, fourth... *g*) dates.

To sign up, please comment below with the date/s you would like to post or have your work/creation posted. I will then snag the icon you've used (please make it a Pros one, and not an animated one, otherwise the calendar makes me dizzy... *g*) to block off those day/s for you on the calendar. Then all you need to do is post on that day! The icons on the calendar will then also become links to your post.

(I might be a bit slow adding icons tomorrow (Sunday) as I'm in an all-day meeting, but please check the comments to see if the day you want has already been snagged - I'll allocate days strictly in order of comments!)

Please use GMT (lads' time) when you post, and post between midnight and midnight lads' time on your day - this is just because, with people all over the world posting, times and posts can get tangled otherwise. Someone posting late can end up crossing over with someone posting early - and it's happened before! This time converter is helpful if you're not sure.

If you'd like to see how it's worked in previous years, you can find links to all the comm challenges on the user info page (all up to date now!) - simply click on the banner and you will be taken to all the entries with the challenge tag. If you find the challenge calendar, you'll be able to click on any day to see what was posted. *g* And there are fourteen other Christmas/Solstice/Winter challenges to explore and be inspired by!

If I've missed out anything vital, or you have any questions, the do let me know in the comments - and otherwise, sign-ups are open, for the fifteenth Pros Christmas/Solstice/Winter

discoveredinalj challenge! (Fifteenth! Is anyone else as amazed as I am?!)

1st Bauble	2nd Bauble	3rd Bauble	4th Bauble	5th Bauble
6th Bauble	7th Bauble	8th Bauble	9th Bauble	10th Bauble
11th Bauble	12th Bauble	13th Bauble	14th Bauble	15th Bauble
16th Bauble	17th Bauble	18th Bauble	19th Bauble	20th Bauble
21st Bauble	22nd Bauble	23rd Bauble	24th Bauble	25th Happy Christmas!
26th Bauble	27th Bauble	28th Bauble	29th Bauble	30th Bauble
31st Bauble				1st Bauble
2nd Bauble	3rd Bauble	4th Bauble	5th Bauble	6th Bauble

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milomaus.livejournal.com

Oh YES!
Thank you so much for making this happen again this year!
As always, I'd like the third, the thirteenth and the twentthird, if possible.
*ggg*