JL Edwardian Advent Calendar

JL Edwardian Advent Calendar

By Jacquielawson.com

  • Category: Lifestyle
  • Release Date: 2023-10-17
  • Current Version: 1.2.1
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 815.44 MB
  • Developer: Jacquielawson.com
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
Score: 3.9
3.93233
From 133 Ratings
Free On itunes

Description

Spend Christmas in the glamorous Edwardian era for 25 days of seasonal fun. Now updated for 2024, you can download our Edwardian Advent Calendar and experience the elegance of the 1920s all over again! Every day you’ll enter our fabulous Edwardian country mansion to discover a new surprise. Relax in the grand drawing-room, stroll through the extensive gardens, and watch the bustle below stairs as the domestic staff prepare the house for Christmas Day. You can also enjoy aesthetic games, interactive activities, fascinating books, and more when you download the Jacquie Lawson Advent Calendar! IN OUR EDWARDIAN CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN • Interactive main scene set in an English country estate, c.1910 • A grand drawing-room for you to decorate and enjoy • Over 30 gifts to unwrap! • A new animated story or other amusement every day • 25 animals hidden in the scene, one to find each day • A variety of books to curl up with • Loads of fun Christmas games and seasonal activities COSY GAMES • Our brilliant Teddy Skiing game is back! • Decorate your Christmas biscuits • Set the table for a grand Christmas Dinner • Spend a cosy afternoon with our jigsaw puzzles • An assortment of memory games • Two varieties of Patience/Solitaire – Spider and Klondike • Challenge yourself with our Marble Solitaire game • Plus, of course our popular Match Three and 10x10 games FESTIVE ACTIVITIES • Decorate the Christmas tree in the grand drawing-room • The original version of our Snowflake Maker is back! • Fun model train game • Dress paper dolls in Edwardian costume • Create your own needlework, wreath, or tapestry • Make a beautiful flower arrangement CHRISTMAS BOOKS • A glimpse into Edwardian Christmas traditions • A beautiful fine art book • Fascinating stories behind each of the 25 daily animations • Mouth-watering recipes from Edwardian times Here at Jacquie Lawson, we’ve been making interactive digital Advent Calendars for over 10 years. Incorporating the wonderful art and music for which our ecards have justly become famous, it has become an unmissable part of the countdown to Christmas for thousands of families across the world. Download your Advent Calendar now. WHAT IS AN ADVENT CALENDAR? A traditional Advent Calendar is a Christmas scene printed on cardboard, with little paper windows – one for each day of Advent – which open to reveal further Christmas scenes, so the user can count the days to Christmas. Our digital Advent Calendar is much more exciting, of course, because the main scene and the daily surprises all come alive with music and animation! Strictly, Advent starts on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and ends on Christmas Eve, but most modern Advent Calendars – ours included – start the Christmas countdown on 1st December. We also depart from tradition by including Christmas Day itself! https://www.jacquielawson.com/terms-of-use https://www.jacquielawson.com/privacy-policy

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Reviews

  • Your Advent Calendars are fun all year long

    5
    By JLFan4Now
    I'm 'one of those' who keeps enjoying all your Advent Calendars throughout the year... I have purchased 5 so far. I just tried the Glogg recipe for mulled wine and it was amazing! The 2023 Edwardian Calendar was especially wonderful in that my 'sitting room' had every possible game, puzzle, and fun thing to do all crammed into one space. I can hardly wait for this year's calendar! 📆 🤩

  • Disappointment vs other years

    3
    By carlietta17
    I have looked forward to this advent calendar for the past 5 years. Honestly, there were many key components I missed this year—the snowman, outside tree lights and other features (store displays, light poles) that changed when you touched them and the interactive nature of the scene in general. I loved the year we found the gnomes, and then they turned up on the game room bookshelf and sing Merry Christmas on the 25th. Perhaps if the animals we find each day had culminated in an outside parade?? Fingers crossed for next year?!?

  • Subpar compared to previous years

    1
    By Kat hunt
    This years felt like an old recycled version from 10 years ago. Been a happy customer for many years - not sure why they downgraded the interactions so much.

  • So disappointed

    1
    By Kathryn17*
    I’ve had a Jacquie Lawson Advent calendar since 2013; it has one of my favorite Christmas traditions but not this year. This year’s calendar has no interactive community so is very boring and the videos were substandard. The one video that promised a festive holiday ball only showed generic figures entering the house — no actual ball! Next year I will preview the calendar before purchasing it.

  • Stunning and cozy

    5
    By Tomi919
    No idea what anybody is complaining about. The art is so lovely & i keep coming back to everything even days after Christmas.

  • Disappointment compared to previous years

    2
    By BlessedMommy22
    My mother, sister and I have been enjoying the JL advent calendars for years. This year was a disappointment, I’m very sorry to say. I did love searching for animals each day, that was enjoyable. However, if you look at the main scene - where’s Christmas? Where are the lights, decorations - any signs of the season? It was bare, cold, and actually slightly depressing. In past years there were trees with lights, wreaths, decorations, children sledding, snowmen, fireworks, Santa at Christmas and so much more. This year, nothing. Lonely (although cute) animals out in the snow. Please, less videos, more entertainment and more outdoor holiday decor and excitement next year!

  • Not as fun

    3
    By Walnut lover
    Not as fun as the last two years. I’ll probably still buy it, but I hope it improves.

  • What 😮

    5
    By ikill123546
    I can’t delete the app for new year’s!

  • WAY Too Many Videos 👎

    3
    By Sabor Místico
    (As the review I originally posted seems to have vanished, I will just start from scratch). I see quite a few positives in this calendar, including some new additions (i.e.: the train set, a tapestry, new and attractive ornaments for the Christmas trees). I am also very happy that the pets are back! (They were missed!). I do enjoy the daily animal search as well! 🦔 Plus, the artwork is as enjoyable as ever, with nice little touches like the railroad in the distance, the partridge around which a pear tree appears and so on. However, there is one aspect of this app that I really do not enjoy and the impact of it is significant: the fact that instead of featuring an array of varied and engaging activities (which the 2022 Sussex calendar did incredibly well!), this calendar has reverted back to employing an excessive number of videos as the daily feature, as it did back in 2021, with the London calendar. 👎 It is not that the videos are not well done. They are - and having a few of them interspersed among other, varied daily activities would be fine - refreshing even. However, these videos constitute the great majority of the daily activities in this advent calendar, which just makes the overall experience of using it incredibly predictable and dull. Ultimately, it greatly detracts from any sense of anticipation or discovery when revealing the current day’s “surprise” (and how can it not, when we already know ahead of time what that activity is bound to be?). Now, I am not saying that there aren’t a lot of other activities included elsewhere in the calendar, but how they are used matters. Including a lot more of the interactive activities as the featured daily surprises, instead of treating them as stand-alone activities found in our Christmas home/drawing room, would really have gone a long way to break up the monotonous and routine sensation one gets when watching an endless parade of daily videos. And why such a fixation on videos anyway, JL? Realistically speaking, how many can a user absorb before boredom and disenchantment with the whole routine set in? Personally, I find that their overuse very much detracts from what once made this calendar so special: the sense of anticipation as to what the day’s featured *activity* would be, the fun of discovering it, and then…the joy of actually doing it! Finally, in view of the fact that your advent calendars are now much more expensive than they once were, it can hardly be considered inappropriate for a user to expect more from this app than just tedious predictability!

  • Compared to Sussex, 1 star

    1
    By happybee84
    Last year’s advent calendar was festive, had word puzzles and a challenging Find the Elf advent. This year, it’s dreary, lonely looking and is a constant reminder of the class system. I hope next year is better.

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