2010 Virtual Advent Tour: Day 20

Phew! Day 20! The countdown is well and truly on in our house!

Take a few moments to see what treats have been shared with us today:


Lisa @ Books Lists Life


Sassymonkey @ Sassymonkey Reads

Molly @ My Cozy Book Nook

Rebecca @ Rebecca Reads

2010 Virtual Advent Tour: Day 19

I spent some time at the shops this weekend, and I think I am almost done! Only one more difficult person to buy for, and one other present. How about you? Take some time out from your busy preparations and visit the following participants today:

Krissi @ LightingMyLight

Kaye @ The River Goes Ever Ever On

Lindy @ Virtual Advent

Debbie @ Readerbuzz

Leslie @ Under My Apple Tree

2010 Virtual Advent Tour: Day 18

The tour is moving quickly on towards the end. Only one week to go, and I know that I have loads of fantastic posts to catch up, including those we are visiting today!

 

Christina @ Chrisbookarama

Susan @ Medieval Women

Beth @ Beth Fish Reads

Kat @ Book Thingo

2010 Virtual Advent Tour: Day 17

It will be another quick post today, mainly because I am one of the blogger's who is posting today! My fellow contributors will be:

Ana @ things mean a lot

Chris @ Stuff as Dreams are Made on

Boof @ The Book Whisperer

Marg @ Adventures of an Intrepid Reader

 

Now, I need to go and start my post!

2010 Virtual Advent Tour: Day 16

Today we have posts from all over, including from a blogger based in Japan! Enjoy.

Kate @ I Just Wanna Sit Here and Read!

Nat @ In Spring it is the Dawn

Melissa @ My Experiments in the Kitchen

Aaron @ Guy Gone Geek

2010 Virtual Advent Tour: Day 15

Once the tour starts, it just seems to go so quickly! We are already up to day 15, and there are only 10 days to go! Today we are visiting with:


December 15:

Pam @ Bookalicious

Sherry @ Semicolon

Sumana @ Books With a Cup of Coffee

Connelly-Ahern @ Col Reads

2010 Virtual Advent Tour: Day 14

Here are the links for Tuesday December 14. Not long to go until the big day is here. Are you ready?

December 14:

Trish @Love, Laughter, and a Touch of Insanity

Julia @ A Piece of My Mind

Naida @ The Bookworm

Diana @ This Writing Life

2010 Virtual Advent Tour: Day 13

We dropped the ball a little bit for a couple of days! Sorry, it's that time of year. If you haven't seen them already here are the links for Monday!

 

 

Tiina @ A Book Blog of One's Own

Lisabea @ Nose in a Book

Sprite @ Sprite Writes

Debbie @ The Friday Friends

wb @ wb32 reads

2010 Virtual Advent Tour: Day 12

It is hard to believe that we are all ready 12 days into December! Christmas is right around the corner. To get you in a celebratory mood, here are 5 blogs to visit!

Jane @ Life @ Number 8

Becky @ One Literature Nut

Michelle @ Galleysmith

Lorren @ The Story Girl

Miss Moppet @ The Misadventures of Moppet

2010 Virtual Advent Tour: Day 11

Today we have six stops on the advent tour! Enjoy!

Maree @ just add books

Jana @ The Secret Insight of my Bookshelf

Darren @ Bart's Bookshelf

Gwenelle @ Fuzzy Black Slippers and a Pink Hoodie

Renee Ann @ Doorkeeper

Heather @ Capricious Reader

2010 Virtual Advent Tour: Day 10

Today we not only have 5 fabulous bloggers for you to visit, but we are also featuring the Random Magic Tour: Winterlong. It is a bookish event running from the 10th to the 23rd and has lots of fun things going on.

Memory @ Stella Matutina

Margot @ Joyfully Retired

Rachel @ A Fair Substitute for Heaven

Sarah @ Writer, Reader, Dreamer

Nan @ That's All She Read

Random Magic Tour: Winterlong

2010 Virtual Advent Tour: Day 9

The tour continues today with some great posts from the following participants:

 

Gretchen @ Scarlets Letters

Heather @ Capricious Reader

Darcy @ Foxed

GeraniumCat @ Geranium Cat's Bookshelf

2010 Virtual Advent Tour: Day 8

Today we are visiting one of my blogging friends, Amy; a person that has participated before, Kerrie; and two people that are new to the tour. A nice assortment! I am looking forward to their posts!

Amy @ My Friend Amy

Kerrie @ Mysteries in Paradise

Tina @ Tina Says

Patti @ Peppermint Ph. D

2010 Virtual Advent Tour: Day 7

The first week of the Virtual Advent is over with all ready! Time flies when you are having fun, I guess!

Today we have the pleasure of visiting these fine blogs. Enjoy!

raidergirl @ an adventure in reading

Colleen @ Lavender Lines

Tami @ Just One More Thing...

Bellezza @ Dolce Bellezza

2010 Virtual Advent Tour: Day 6

Can you believe the first week on the tour is almost over already?

Today our Advent Tour treats come to us courtesy of:

Lexie @ Poisoned Rationality

Natasha @ Maw Books

Martha @ Hey, I want to read that

Carol @ Better is Possible

2010 Virtual Advent Tour: Day 5

Today we are visiting with the following bloggers! I look forward to seeing what they are sharing. I sepecially love that Iris's post links in with Leeswamme's post from yesterday!

Iris @ Iris on Books

Melissa @ Book Nut

Lesley @ Mysterious Adventures

Veronica @ The First Draft

2010 Virtual Advent Tour: Day 4

Day 4 of the Virtual Advent Tour - half way through the first week, and we have already had a host of treats served up to us as we visit all the participants blogs! Today, we are visiting with:

Judith @ Leeswammes

Amy @ A Faithful Journey

Kristen @ BookNAround

Melissa @ Jayne's Books

 

 

Can't wait!

2010 Virtual Advent Tour: Day 3

Today is day 3 of this year's Virtual Advent Tour, and we have four fabulous bloggers who are going to share their holiday cheer for us today.

Jennifer @ Mrs. Q: Book Addict

Court @ Once Upon a Bookshelf

Cindy @ Nocturnal Wonderings

Kris @ Not Enough Books

It would be remiss of me if we didn't give an extra special cheer to Court who made our fabulous buttons for us again this year

2010 Virtual Advent Tour: Day 2

What a fantastic start to the tour we had yesterday!

I am sure we are in for more of the same when we visit the following bloggers today:

Amy @ Amy Reads

Jenn @ Jenn's Bookshelves

Rob @ Books are like Candy Corn

Jan @ Staying Awake

2010 Virtual Advent Tour: Day 1

It's time! Today is the first day of the 2010 Virtual Advent Tour! We are very excited to see what everyone shares this year!

Here is where we are stopping off today:

Cass @ Bonjour, Cass

Sally from Oz @ Books and Musing from Downunder

Billy Coffey @ What I Learned Today

Tracee @ Reviews from Here

Announcing the 2010 Virtual Advent Tour

Kailana from The Written World and Marg from Adventures of an Intrepid Reader are very pleased and excited to announce that we will once again be running the Virtual Advent tour this year. This is the fifth year that we have hosted and we hope that the event has become an integral part of the book blogging community's holiday traditions.

The Virtual Advent tour first started when we pondered why should the kids get all the fun of opening a box on the advent calendar and finding a treat in there, and how could we have some blogging fun with a similar concept? So the Virtual Advent tour was born.

Each day anyone who wants to participate takes turns sharing a treat with our friends here in blogland. For example it could be something about your family traditions, recipes, your country's holiday traditions, or a favourite Christmas memory, movie, book, song...anything you like. Even if you don't celebrate Christmas we would like to hear about what your family does during the holiday season, whether it be celebrating Hanukkah or Kwanzaa or whatever it is that you do during this time.

If you are interested in signing up, then please sign up using the Google form below. If you want a specific date, then please include that along with your name. If you don't need a specific date, then we will allocate a date to you. We will create a list of links so that as people express interest we will add them to the list, and then each day during the tour we will post a link directing visitors to the appropriate blog.

The tour will get away on Wednesday 1 December and run through until Friday December 24. If there are more people than there are days that's fine too.....the more the merrier! It just means that there will be more than one blog to visit on those days.

2010 Tour Dates

December 1:

Cass @ Bonjour, Cass

Sally from Oz @ Books and Musings from Downunder

Billy Coffey @ What I Learned Today

Tracee @ Reviews From Here

December 2:

Amy @ Amy Reads

Jenn @ Jenn's Bookshelves

Rob @ Books are like Candy Corn

Jan @ Staying Awake

December 3:

Jennifer @ Mrs. Q: Book Addict

Court @ Once Upon a Bookshelf

Cindy @ Nocturnal Wonderings

Kris @ Not Enough Books

December 4:

Judith @ Leeswammes

Amy @ A Faithful Journey

Kristen @ BookNAround

Melissa @ Jayne's Books

December 5:

Iris @ Iris on Books

Melissa @ Book Nut

Lesley @ Mysterious Adventures

Veronica @ The First Draft

December 6:

Lexie @ Poisoned Rationality

Natasha @ Maw Books

Martha @ Hey, I want to read that

Carol @ Better is Possible

December 7:

raidergirl @ an adventure in reading

Colleen @ Lavender Lines

Tami @ Just One More Thing...

Bellezza @ Dolce Bellezza

December 8:

Amy @ My Friend Amy

Kerrie @ Mysteries in Paradise

Tina @ Tina Says

Patti @ Peppermint Ph. D

December 9:

Gretchen @ Scarlets Letters

Heather @ Capricious Reader

Darcy @ Foxed

GeraniumCat @ Geranium Cat's Bookshelf

December 10:

Memory @ Stella Matutina

Margot @ Joyfully Retired

Rachel @ A Fair Substitute for Heaven

Sarah @ Writer, Reader, Dreamer

Nan @ That's All She Read

Random Magic Tour: Winterlong

December 11:

Maree @ just add books

Jana @ The Secret Insight of my Bookshelf

Darren @ Bart's Bookshelf

Gwenelle @ Fuzzy Black Slippers and a Pink Hoodie

Renee Ann @ Doorkeeper

Heather @ Capricious Reader

 

December 12:

Jane @ Life @ Number 8

Becky @ One Literature Nut

Michelle @ Galleysmith

Lorren @ The Story Girl

Miss Moppet @ The Misadventures of Moppet

December 13:

Tiina @ A Book Blog of One's Own

Lisabea @ Nose in a Book

Sprite @ Sprite Writes

Debbie @ The Friday Friends

wb @ wb32 reads

December 14:

Trish @Love, Laughter, and a Touch of Insanity

Julia @ A Piece of My Mind

Naida @ The Bookworm

Diana @ This Writing Life

December 15:

Pam @ Bookalicious

Sherry @ Semicolon

Sumana @ Books With a Cup of Coffee

Connelly-Ahern @ Col Reads

December 16:

Kate @ I Just Wanna Sit Here and Read!

Nat @ In Spring it is the Dawn

Melissa @ My Experiments in the Kitchen

Aaron @ Guy Gone Geek

December 17:

Ana @ things mean a lot

Chris @ Stuff as Dreams are Made on

Boof @ The Book Whisperer

Marg @ Adventures of an Intrepid Reader

December 18:

Christina @ Chrisbookarama

Susan @ Medieval Women

Beth @ Beth Fish Reads

Kat @ Book Thingo

December 19:

Krissi @ LightingMyLight

Kaye @ The River Goes Ever Ever On

Lindy @ Virtual Advent

Debbie @ Readerbuzz

Leslie @ Under My Apple Tree

December 20:

Lisa @ Books Lists Life

Sassymonkey @ Sassymonkey Reads

Molly @ My Cozy Book Nook

Rebecca @ Rebecca Reads

December 21:

Megan @ Po(sey) Sessions

Sam @ Sam Still Reading

Lynn @ Chronicle of an Infant Bibliophile

Michelle @ The Christmas Spirit

December 22:

Eva @ A Striped Armchair

Suey @ It's All About Books

Caroline @ Beauty is a Sleeping Cat

Alexandra @ The Sleepless Reader

December 23:

Alleluialu @ Bookend Crossing

Cat @ Beyond Books

Becky @ Becky's Book Reviews

Tina @ One More Page

December 24:

Carl @ Stainless Steel Droppings

Kailana @ The Written World

Susan @ You Can Never Have Too Many Books

Sara @ Wordy Evidence of the Fact

2010 Advent Calendar Buttons

Welcome to another year of the Advent Calendar! This year we have three buttons for you to choose from for your posts and your sidebar, should you choose. Last year there were a couple requests for buttons for people that do not have snow, so hopefully everyone's needs are met. Once again the buttons are thanks to Court from Once Upon a Bookshelf. They are fantastic!