"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

2020 Advent Calendar [14] – This Thursday

This Thursday is Tori’s nickname, a creative based in Sheffield. Her instagram is here, relevant links are here, including a Christmas cards blog post on her website and her Etsy shop here. She does beautiful work such as the Christmas Hippo, the Water Creatures 2021 calendar, the British Birds perpetual calendar, the Teapot set and the Kangaroo-Goat duo. Her shop closes in two days!

I warned you I would try and do a sort of Advent Calendar recommending you an indipendent artist and illustrator each day till Christmas: I’m not making any promises, let’s see if I can keep this up.
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