So many thanks so many people that have found and created and amassed and enjoyed the delights that I have linked to over the course of this year’s Advent Calendar. I’m totally doing this next year — next time it’ll be a more collaborative process (with you!), and I can’t wait.

Visual

• YouTube
• South Florida Sun-Sentinel [scared of santa gallery, day 3]
• SnowCrystals.com [incredible microscopy snowflake photos, day 5]
• Transmogrifier [all the calvin & hobbes. all. day 8]
• Curiosity Group [creators of the fantastico don’t die ding, day 8]
• Visual Dictionary [i’m sad to see no one has added to “christmas” yet. day 9]
• Amy Winfrey’s Making Fiends [my favorite animation series of. all. time. day 10]
• Flip Flop Flyin [i adore that Craig Robinson. i’ve lurked for years on his site. too shy to say hi. Yuletide Owls, day 11, and funfunfun, day 22]
• Mazaika [old soviet holiday cards, day 17. check out this mildly amusing 21st century tale]
• Angry Alien [it’s a wonderful life in 30 seconds by bunnies, day 18]
• Charles Phoenix [a charles phoenix christmas, day 19]
• Shorpy [vintage christmas images, day 23]
• flickr — the lifechanging photo sharing service. extraspecial thanks to the people whose photos I used [under creative commons licensing]:
  • McSkeletor [day 1]
  • duesentrieb [day 2]
  • formulaphoto [day 3]
  • Captain Midnight [day 4]
  • Bryan Ledgard [day 5]
  • EverythingSpoon [day 6]
  • zephyrbunny [day 7]
  • Tinker*Tailor [day 8]
  • Lee Otis [day 9]
  • cwalker71 [day 10]
  • tinkernoonoo [day 11]
  • nullalux [day 12]
  • noktulo [day 13]
  • amanda bel [day 14]
  • blondie5000 [day 15]
  • lilitu93 [day 16]
  • natalieguinsler [day 17]
  • Uh…Bob [day 18]
  • teresia [day 19]
  • dotpolka [day 20]
  • tinkernoonoo [day 21]
  • sagellyn [day 22]
  • dalydose [day 22]
  • benrod [day 23]
  • LanceJohnson [day 24]
  • Capt Kodak [day 25]

Words

• TV Party [everything you wanted to know about rankin bass, day 1]
• Wikipedia [for everything in the world]
• St. Nicholas Center [researchers of s.claus, day 6]
• Bonza Bottler Day [day 12]
• Mental Floss [how dickens saved christmas day 15, and 12 days of quizzes, day 19]
• Snopes [festive season superstitions, day 16]
• The Onion [there shall be no christmas this year! day 20]
• Candlegrove [winter solstice, day 21]

Play

• orisinal [ferry halim’s wonderful flash game site, day 2, 13 & 24]
• StarterUpSteve [snowglobe game, day 3]
• Chabad.org [dreidel game, day 12]
• Sullivan Higdon & Sink [create your own bad xmas sweater, day 24]

Craft

• Torah Tots [handprint menorah day 4]
• Craft: Magazine [droidal dreidel, day 12]
• Cathy of California [vintage holiday crafting, day 18]
• Look and Feel [a snowflake maker, day 20]
• Modern Mechanix [fun and games, day 21]
• Lil Fingers [kwaanza games, day 23]

Foodhole

• AllRecipes.com [numbly cookie advent calendar, day 1]
• Old Foodie Blog [vintage christmas recipes, day 15]
• The Salmons [turducken recipe and song, day 17]
• Richard Harter [whole stuffed camel recipe, day 17]
• Mumu [alligator-stuffed buffalo, day 17]
• Stronzatata [introducing the hotchken, day 17]

Category defiance

• Henry the Hand [wash them hands, day 4]
• Pee-wee Herman [day 6]
• SantaCon [yearly santa freakout, day 7]; and The Cacophony Society [the founders of santacon]
• Improv Everywhere [suicide jumper story, day 10]
• Surrealist [christmas lyrics generator, day 11]
• Cockeyed [how much is inside a christmas tree, day 14]
• Alex Komarnitsky [alek’s controllable christmas lights, day 25]
• Leslie Harpold. She created several year’s worth of online advent calendars (as well as being a gifted writer and blogger). The calendars were lovely and inspirational and sadly online no longer. Leslie passed away December 2006.

Music

• Keith Gettelman [for christmas in hollis video, day 5]
• Bizarre Records [christmas music, day 7]
• Sweet Thunder [creators of found home recordings, day 9]
• Bedazzled! [johnny cash christmas show, day 13. i love bedazzled a whole lot.]
• Check the Cool Wax [awesome vintage holiday MP3s, day 16]
• Silent Night Web [silent night in 100+ languages, day 22]
• WMFU’s Beware of the Blog [source of everything in the world that is magical and cool]
• Archer Audio Archive [beatles christmas, day 25]

Where all the cool links hang out

• BoingBoing
• Neatorama
• Bedazzled!
• YesButNoButYes
• I Am Bored
• Random Good Stuff

Genius friends who helped my blog uncrash earlier this month

• Matt at SpudArt
• Parker at Made by Parker

The humans who read my nonsense

Thanks so much for reading and commenting. I know there are more of you who read and don’t comment — I will respect your shyness here. You guys are great. Check out everyone’s blogs, too. All of my friends are fabulous and creative.

Darling Andrew! Regina! Ã…sta! CardioGirl! Violet! Tamar! Branden! Leanne! Jefffro! SpudArt! Kerrio! Jeanie! Ted! Elle! Cynical Chris! David! Pattiewack! John A! Chriggles! Kentucky Gurl! Bosco! Nora G! Bryce Babcock! Plotnick! Dagda! Mai! Scott S! Greg! Gry! Tristy! Diane! Sam! Michael Dean! Alison! Annika! Damion! Laura K! Doc! Jeana! Carol! WillowFox!

… and, of course, SANTINO! AAAAAAAaaaaa!