An update on the Christmas Exchange and other Christmasy things

First of all, I want to thank everyone who joined the Christmas Exchange, and also those who helped spread the word. You guys are the best! When I came up with this idea I didn't know if enough people would be interested, but now we have more than enough participants. Thanks everyone! This is going to be a lot of fun.

I am now going to post a list of everyone who's signed up so far. If by any chance you're participating but don't see your name on this list, please leave me a comment saying so. I don't want any e-mails to get lost in some dark corner of the internet. I'll edit this post as I get more e-mails, so if it's only been a few hours since you signed up, no need to worry. So, the participants are:

• Chris at Stuff as Dream are Made On
• Court at Once Upon a Bookshelf
• Dewey at The Hidden Side of a Leaf
• Dark Orpheus at Orpheus Sings the Electric Guitar
• Melissa at Book Nut
• Literary Feline at Musings of a Bookish Kitten
• Kailana at The Written World
• Serena at Savvy Verse and Wit
• Suey at It's All About Books
• Jean Pierre at Bombastic Bagman
• Amy at The Sleepy Reader
• Stephanie at Confessions of a Book-a-holic
• Lynne at Lynne's Little Corner of the World
• Violetlady at Violetlady at Home
• Lisa at Pfeiffer Booknotes
• Boolgal Books, Memes and Musings
• Cory at The Dragon's Loss
• Renay at The Book Ninja
• Jill at The Well-Read Child
• Valentina at Valentina's Room
• April at Cafe of Dreams
• Robin at A Fondness for Reading
• cj at My Year of Reading Seriously
• Rhinoa at Rhinoa's Ramblings
• Debi at Nothing of Importance
• Lightheaded at Everyday Reads
• Carl at Stainless Steel Droppings

Kailana and Marg are also thinking of Christmas already. They are organizing a blogger Advent Calendar. Each participants picks a day between the 1st and the 24th of December and posts a Christmas-related treat. Kailana says:

Each day anyone who wants to participate could take turns sharing a little treat with our friends here in blogland. For example it could be something about a holiday tradition, or a recipe, or a picture of a hot guy dressed as Santa, or a favourite Christmas memory, movie, 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 anything!

I think this is a spendid idea and I'm definitely in. Click here for more details and/or to join!