A little window to open every morning until Christmas.

An advent calendar made of twenty-four small things from the people who love someone — photos, voice notes, old memories, even a gift card or a real present. Each morning in December a new window is ready, and they tap to open it.

Free to make and preview. $9 to send, with everything in it.

✦ Tap a window — any one
Who it’s for

Anyone who’d like a reason to look forward to the morning.

It started as a gift for grandparents. It turns out it fits nearly everyone you love.

Your person

For the one you wake up next to, or the one you wish you did.

Day 6 — the photo from our first apartment.

Grandma & Grandpa

The grandkids each take a window. A new little voice every morning.

Day 12 — Ava sings Jingle Bells, badly.

Someone far away

When you can’t be there in December, be there every morning instead.

Day 3 — a voice note from the kitchen.

The kids

Twenty-four mornings of something to run downstairs for, without twenty-four chocolates.

Day 18 — a riddle. The answer’s under your pillow.

A hard winter

In the hospital, or just a long December. A door to open each morning is something to hold on to.

Day 9 — you’re doing better than you think.
What goes behind a window

Small things, made by hand.

Each window opens into a card: a note in handwriting, a taped-in photo, a voice note under a wax seal, a memory with the date burned into the corner like an old film print.

Gift cards and real gifts

A window can hold a real present, too.

Corner Bookshop$25Gift card

A gift card, sealed till morning

Paste an online gift card’s code and redeem link, or a photo of a plastic one. Nobody can see the code until the morning its window opens — then it’s one tap to copy.

Something real behind the door

Paste a link from Amazon or any shop. On its morning it unwraps on screen; the price stays hidden unless you choose to show it. We work out when to order it and email you in time.

Look in the pocket of your blue coat.

Or hide it in the house

Already have it? Tuck it somewhere and put the hint behind a window. The morning it opens, they go looking.

How it works

Ten minutes to make. Twenty-four mornings to open.

Pick a house, fill the windows

Tap a window and put something behind it. Each one you fill lights up, so you can see the house coming together.

Ask the family to take one each

Send one link to the group. Everyone claims an empty window and fills it — without seeing anyone else’s.

Send it. They open one each morning.

One link for them. Each morning a new window is ready, glowing behind its shutters, and stays closed until they tap it. Miss a day and it waits. The front door is Christmas Eve’s.

Building it is free. Sending it is $9, once — morning reminders by email, text or calendar, family windows and gift windows all included.

By Christmas Eve, the whole house is lit.

Every window they open stays lit, so the house fills with light as December goes on. It’s the nicest thing to look at on the 24th.

Free to make while it’s new.