There is a tradition at the Soul Food Cafe. Each December, for the past five years, Heather Blakey has launched an Advent Calendar on the first day of December. Advent calendars have long helped build excitement and anticipation on the countdown to Christmas, typically revealing a pretty picture or piece of chocolate behind the cardboard door for each December day along the way. Heather Blakey adopted a new approach to this tradition. Each day during December a new link lights up on the Soul Food Advent Calendar.
The Cafe now has a collection of these beautiful features, kept for posterity and full of prompts and inspiration for eager writers and artists. This lens features all of them.
So check it out HERE and enjoy!
Irregular Bones 
Thanks for the memory, Anita! Advent calendars were a childhood tradition for me growing up in Germany…I remember how excited I was at the prospect of waking up to chocolate every day!
I wonder if I could buy one around here somewhere…does this mean I have 8 days of chocolate eating to catch up on?