Picture advent calendars that add to the scene rather than have random pictures behind the doors

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I hope the title makes sense.
Anyway, I came across these advent calendars that seem to fit the bill and thought I'd share in case anyone else is looking.
https://www.theartfile.com/products/into-the-forest-christmas-advent-calendar?variant=46178459189534&currency=GBP&utmmedium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gclid=CjwKCAjws9ipBhB1EiwAccEi1CFW47kfefGQMaQEGzg9DnD11bb287RPkb41jPvKELK-8Zj8SJhWtBoCWLgQAvD_BwE

https://www.flametreepublishing.com/book-lovers-wall-calendar-2024-art-calendar-isbn-9781804173763.html

This is a lovely calendar. Every month shows in all sorts of settings.women.reading, totally absorbed.in a book

What absolutely gorgeous advent calendars . I will definitely be ordering

I wonder if MN orders will be enough to produce a spike and they wonder why.

I was thinking that!

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Some of these are lovely. Love the house ones.

Closet & Botts have some lovely ones.

ooh these are so lovely - over the years I have started wasting a ton of ££ on increasingly expensive choc ones for the kids, then different food things and the last few years a beer one for DH, now I can have a lovely one for myself 😊

These do look lovely.
I just wish they'd show a couple of the illustrations behind the doors so you'd know you were buying (what I now know to be) continuity calendars.

I've been fooled before and bought a beautiful picture calendar only to open first window to find a random Christmas pudding 😫

I have found advent calendars the last few years so depressing, just a picture of some chocolate and nothing else.

Ack I hate that.

I just wish they'd show a couple of the illustrations behind the doors so you'd know you were buying (what I now know to be) continuity calendars.

Here is Little Town by Richard Selmer - the scenes behind the doors are translucent so if you put it in front of a window or light, it looks like the rooms are lit within.

Oh that's fantastic!
Is that your picture @TheYearOfSmallThings ?

Thank you for this thread! I've bumped not it by accident but remember these sorts of calendar from my childhood - brought out year after year. Grandma had a lovely nativity scene where the characters, animals and star were added in as the month progressed.

I would like a little Christmas tree where you add a decoration every day of advent. A friend has one but I’ve never found them in my internet searching.

That's amazing!

@JessicaFletcherMSW do any of the Roger le Borde ones look like what you are searching for ?

Thank you! Am off to order a little red house one!

@JessicaFletcherMSW would something like this work?

folksy.com/items/8178877-Reusable-Christmas-Tree-Advent-Calendar-with-magnetic-baubles

numbered advent baubles

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155846539497?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=XzKJin4QSDa&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=hRsqhErGTcW&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

www.thelovelyroom.co.uk/products/pink-advent-baubles-set-of-24

Yes, that's a photo of our previous calendar.

The Tower was another nice one from Richard Selmer - they cost about a tenner on Amazon.

You should be on their marketing team
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I should!

I only discovered them after reading an article about how Little Town was given to Eisenhower in 1953 to try and mend fences after WW2. I love that the exact same calendar was first made in 1946.

www.notonthehighstreet.com/windowcards/product/london-christmas-advent-calendar

Not traditional, but definitely a continuity advent calendar with scenes behind each window that add to the picture.The link is for the London calendar but they also do a Brighton one, and Paris and New York. I love them.