{"id":25344,"date":"2026-10-18T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/?p=25344"},"modified":"2026-10-11T12:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T19:40:07","slug":"sylum-advent-2026-check-in-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-advent-2026-check-in-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylum Advent 2026: Check In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"25206\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-advent-2026-check-in\/taighbrigh_bar-banner_advent2026\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/taighbrigh_bar-banner_advent2026.jpg?fit=500%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,150\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"taighbrigh_bar-banner_advent2026\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/taighbrigh_bar-banner_advent2026.jpg?fit=500%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25206 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/taighbrigh_bar-banner_advent2026.jpg?resize=500%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/taighbrigh_bar-banner_advent2026.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/taighbrigh_bar-banner_advent2026.jpg?resize=400%2C120&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/taighbrigh_bar-banner_advent2026.jpg?resize=150%2C45&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/taighbrigh_bar-banner_advent2026.jpg?resize=490%2C147&amp;ssl=1 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s that time &#8211; check in.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still six weeks until Advent, but we all know how that goes.<\/p>\n<p>How is everything going?\u00a0 Need help? Inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>To Paula &#8230; check the click here for more link for inspiration.\u00a0 For everyone else &#8211; enjoy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"25345\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-advent-2026-check-in-4\/lyca_carter_vehicle\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lyca_Carter_Vehicle.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Lyca_Carter_Vehicle\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lyca_Carter_Vehicle.jpg?fit=800%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25345 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lyca_Carter_Vehicle.jpg?resize=800%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lyca_Carter_Vehicle.jpg?resize=800%2C800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lyca_Carter_Vehicle.jpg?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lyca_Carter_Vehicle.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lyca_Carter_Vehicle.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lyca_Carter_Vehicle.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lyca_Carter_Vehicle.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Not the best moving &#8211; but it works \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1072px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-25344-1\" width=\"1072\" height=\"1072\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lyca_Carter_Vehicle2.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lyca_Carter_Vehicle2.mp4\">https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lyca_Carter_Vehicle2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It&#8217;s that time &#8211; check in. There&#8217;s still six weeks until Advent, but we all know how that goes. How is everything going?\u00a0 Need help? Inspiration. To Paula &#8230; check the click here for more link for inspiration.\u00a0 For everyone else &#8211; enjoy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1161,1149,137],"tags":[1136,247,1162],"class_list":["post-25344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sylum-advent-2026","category-sylum-ai-images","category-sylum-events","tag-ai-images","tag-check-in","tag-sylum-advent-2026"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Da1M-6AM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25205,"url":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-advent-2026-check-in\/","url_meta":{"origin":25344,"position":0},"title":"Sylum Advent 2026: Check In","author":"Nicolaus Meridius","date":"September 2, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 I know it's still September but we all know December will be here soon! 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