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2020 Advent Calendar [17] – ItWasaRabbit

It was a Rabbit is the nickname under which you can find Lora’s work, an artist based in Wilmslow: her Etsy shop is here and I discovered her thanks to ThisThursday’s post about Christmas Cards. The name comes from the omonimous book, «a charming story about not judging on first impressions», but if you’re looking for less educational and more festive stuff (shame on you), you might find solace in the Have yourself a roarsome Christmas card but, most importantly, the Christmas is Cancelled, I ate Santa gift card.

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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