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Holiday Wheel-a thon!?

I'm just imagining one of the options being Brown Christmas now!

Melissa wrote: "Holiday Wheel-a thon!?"

Ta-dah!!!!!

As someone who lives in a desert, I see a brown christmas every year!

Cat wrote: "I'm just imagining one of the options being Brown Christmas now!"

AHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHA

don't make me laugh at work.

Sure, I have no current task assigned, hence me being on challenge setup mode, but we're at the client's site, meaning I am supposed to look professional.

Okay.. just a little teaser, because the wheels mod has yet to give her stamp of approval. So things may still change a little.

*runs in search of graphics*

We are using holiday themes for the wheel: 2 weeks for Halloween, 2 weeks for Thanksgiving and last 2 weeks for Christmas.

Each wheel will have 24 words matching the corresponding theme, from which 2 would be colours:
- Halloween Colours: Black and Purple
- Thanksgiving Colours: Orange and Brown
- Christmas Colours: Red and Green

I love it!!!!

So it's a Halloween, Christmas & Valentines indirect door wheel-a-ton team challenge?

And here's the video that Karen used to temp me with the theme back in May the cause of it all

Keli wrote: "So it's a Halloween, Christmas & Valentines indirect door wheel-a-ton team challenge?"

Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas Wheel-a-thon.

Those wheels above are the ones we'll be using for the challenge.

Don't worry for them to be too small to read, we'll post a big one, with the words before sign-up.

Sonia wrote: "Melissa wrote: "Holiday Wheel-a thon!?"

Ta-dah!!!!!"

Ah, but which holidays? Arbor day? National vodka day (Oct. 4)? International sloth day (Oct. 20)? Pickle day (Nov. 14)?

I've seen those lists of weird holidays. Clearly I just referenced one of them. What have your chipmunks been whispering to you?

International Sloth Day! Where do I sign up??

And shome mishtake, shurely! it should be the day after Vodka Day, no?

If we can't go with pickle day, then this looks even better!

I love it! I was typing my message as Sonia posted the wheel. NBC is one of the best animations ever. I debated getting a Jack skellington tattoo.

My typing is soooo bad

Jenny wrote: "Sonia wrote: "Melissa wrote: "Holiday Wheel-a thon!?"

Ta-dah!!!!!"

Ah, but which holidays? Arbor day? National vodka day (Oct. 4)? International sloth day (Oct. 20)? Pickle day (Nov. 14)?

I've s..."

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I looked at the archive for a wheel challenge, but I must have seen a different one to what you are planning. How do the colors come in?

Now imagine how good it was to try to write Harry Potter themed tasks for classes when This is halloween was playing on my mind....

The wait is going to be foreverrrrrrrrrr! hahaha I love the Holiday time of year :D

@Jenny, during Wobble we got bonus points for books with the colour in the title & such.

My team spent a LOT of time with brown colour tasks.
I still get a nervous twitch when I think about it.

Cat wrote: "International Sloth Day! Where do I sign up??

And shome mishtake, shurely! it should be the day after Vodka Day, no?"

There should be (and probably is) an international hangover cure day, but it probably follows international tequila shooter day!

The last Uno game had a challenge in it for weird holidays in April. There was one for every day of the month. People have too much time on their hands.

Jenny wrote: "I looked at the archive for a wheel challenge, but I must have seen a different one to what you are planning. How do the colors come in?"

We had two wheel-a-thons in the past (besides the wobble edition).

First wheel was book genre. Second wheel was colors. This time we wanted to go a step forward, and what better excuse than to do a holiday challenge during holiday season?

That or the UF reader in me just wanted an excuse to read books about vampires and ghosts and werewolves. LOL. But, since we're a multi-genre group, let add some Cookies and Mistletoe and Thanksgiving blessings into the Cauldron.

Cat wrote: "I still get a nervous twitch when I think about it."

Can you imagine the giggle fit I had when I googled thanksgiving colors and got orange, brown and red?

I had to get out to grab some air.

That I can.

I am so pleased my suffering brings you happiness.

Though if you sort me into a team with brown in the name I shall not be held responsible!

gah! that's totally going to happen now, isn't it??

had to go & open my stupid mouth, didn't I?
*grumbles to self about own idiocy*

*looks at team names*

No brown in name. Lots of brown characters though,....

I guess if I get short in team names I can make an exception to you...

Like Team Brown Twitchy Eye or something

Melissa wrote: "The wait is going to be foreverrrrrrrrrr! hahaha I love the Holiday time of year :D"

Hence the teaser thread.

That way we don't have to suffer alone.

We have been spinning the wheels just for fun... to help with the wait... spoiler alert...it doesn't.

haha way to go Cat! Team Charlie Brown all the way ;)

Melissa wrote: "haha way to go Cat! Team Charlie Brown all the way ;)"

OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH a Peanuts Themed Challenge!!!!

NICE!

I needed a theme for January's one.

hahaha Glad I could help! :D

We just have to make sure Cat is on that team hahahaha!!!

Sonia wrote: "Melissa wrote: "The wait is going to be foreverrrrrrrrrr! hahaha I love the Holiday time of year :D"

Hence the teaser thread.

That way we don't have to suffer alone.

We have been spinning the w..."

Damn... spreading the impatience is so evil of you!!! How could you do that to us?!?!?!?!

Or maybe not, because if everything goes according to plan that one will be restricted to a small group of participants. So no need for a vast universe.

We'll see.

Melissa wrote: "Damn... spreading the impatience is so evil of you!!! How could you do that to us?!?!?!?! "

Me? I just wanted to call dibs on my team name. I was not to tease so soon. But hey, I've been in creativity land, so I'm not the one seeing stuff puzzling itself together. Just ticking stuff as completed.

The Harry Potter based tower teams was a great power boost to my inner chip'n dale. They're unstoppable. And since that darn thing is contagious, we're all in a roll of crazy ideas.

i don't blame you - I would want to claim my team name too :D

I love it! You all are always so creative it makes the challenges much more fun and challenging. Share away with the ideas it keeps the excitement alive haha

Loving the idea of that Wheel-a-Thon! :-)

Cat wrote: "Now...to build a wheel-a-thon, we need.... the carcasses of exhausted Quidditch players ???"

I vote for this one!

oooo I like it …..

Love the Wheel a thon. When are sign ups again..???

Cat wrote: "Torchwood..... that makes me think - Dr Who seems like it'd be rich fodder for a theme ?..."

Dr Who AND Torchwood are pretty cool ideas for themes! xD

Melissa wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "I was never a fan of him. Though I love listening to him talk :-)"

I wasn't either. Angel was my guy ;)"

I just re-watched him die

so sad

Sonia wrote: "*pats self in the back for being a non english native and being able to write words like aesthetics without the red underline of proof-spelling* .."

LOL

I just went and peeked at everything Sonia has set up in mod land. And squeee! it looks amazing
I can't wait.!

When will sign-ups be? I'm so excited for this!

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Melissa wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "I was never a fan of him. Though I love listening to him talk :-)"

I wasn't either. Angel was my guy ;)"

I just re-watched him die

so sad"

:( :(

I'm rewatching him live on Bones :D

I’ve never watched Bones. Maybe I should 😉

The first few seasons of Bones are really cool!
Not at all close to the books but well done on their own with interesting characters who grow over the episodes/seasons.

Yes, it is a very interesting show! You should at least try it out :)

I watched the first episode, and no others. I so wanted it to be like the books, that I couldn't deal with the changes. If I could separate the two in my mind I might like it.

Just read the whole thread and y'all are hurting my little fangirl heart. I've been slowly reading my way through all the Buffy/Angel tie-in novels and comics. Right now I'm a little over halfway through season 3.

Diane wrote: "When will sign-ups be? I'm so excited for this!"

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Love the Wheel a thon. When are sign ups again..???"

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