Greeting Blogmonauts,

What's  behind door 19 paruppa-pum-pum?

It's one of those drumming soldier types that are everywhere at Christmas, our take on a nutcracker. Given that these things originate from the late 17th century, they've got that whole "some historic imagery is kind of creepy" thing going on, or is it just us that think that?

 Specifically, while we generally like their style, we've always thought they had SCARY TEEF. I mean, your mileage may vary, but in our opinion:

SCARY TEEF

As such, the handsome drumming soldier of our advent calendar has kind eyes and a majestic moustachio - possibly hiding their SCARY TEEF, but only you can decide.

Regardless, some kind of drumming boy had to make it in, because despite the fact niether of our dev duo is religious, one of our favourite festive renditions would have to be David Bowie and Bing Crosby's Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy. We love a bit of David in our house, and even discussed Bowie when we first met, in our late teens in the late nineties. A few years ago, Fay looked for the chords to this song online, and found they were absolutely nowhere to be seen and many of the lyrics online were total nonsense. Given that this absolutely would not do, Fay figured out some suitable chords and the lyrics as they sound to her, and put them up on her blog. Here, through the wonder of Youtube, you can see Fay dueting with herself via a magical splitscreen that took ages to do on her decrepit laptop, as part of her Imperfection Project - it came out pretty neat!

If you want to sing and play the song, the link is in the description of the Youtube video!

Hopefully that takes the sting out of the whole SCARY TEEF gif thing, and you'll join us tomorrow for more exclusive backstory on the development of the enchanting Festive Finds: Happy Holidays Calendar, which can be yours for just one whole dollar!

Not too many sleeps until Present Day now...

Love, 

Martyn & Fay

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