VDS Advent Calendar 2024

Hi everyone,
We are very excited to share with you our VDS Advent Calendar of 2024!
Below I will explain the details of each Advent Calendar day. Please note that you cannot combine advent day offers.

Important: For all VDS Advent days that include email orders and email special additional options, please email us from today (November 26) on with your order and which Advent day / offer you would like to get so that we can have your order ready to be paid on that advent day.
· In the subject line of your email, please include the advent day you would like to order for to make it easier for me administration wise 😉 Thanks a lot! Eg. subject line: ‘Junior 25mm – Advent Calendar day 3’
· Email orders for a certain Advent day MUST be paid on that exact day.

Have a Wonderful Holiday Season! 🎄🎁🧑🏽‍🎄

1 December
🎁 Post a picture of your VDS Planner with your favorite Christmas ornament.
👉🏽 Tag us in the picture @vdsshop and use #vdsxmas. You can enter via instagram and facebook until December 19.
On December 25 we will post a slideshow of all images (including your @ in your image) and announce two winners that will get a VDS Gift Card of € 100,-
📆 You can enter from 1 December until 19 December at 12.00 CET (midday).

2 December
The VDS Leather of the Month is JL Velvet Rose! A beautiful soft vintage pink with the same characteristics as our other two JL Velvet leathers.
🚀 Today we offer Fast Shipping on all JL Velvet Rose orders! You can mix and match, so it’s also possible to select this leather only for the outside or inside.
Only available for online orders (so no email orders and no email special additions). There is NO extra cost involved for the fast shipping.
JL Velvet Rose has a cost of +10% on the base planner just like all our other JL Leathers (not on additional options).
⭐️ Fast shipping will be applied to the first 30 planners. Your JL Velvet Rose order will be shipped within 3 workdays.
When you reach the check-out page (the step where you fill in your address details) you will see a pop-up that tells you that Fast Shipping is applicable to your order. When we reach the final amount of 30 planners you will see a pop-up at the check-out page telling you that the fast shipping options are full.
👉🏽 Your JL Velvet Rose fast shipping order will go into production immediately so cancellations or modifications are not possible.
The JL Velvet Rose leather will be available during the entire month of December.
📆 Fast Shipping for JL Velvet Rose is available from December 2 at 12.00 CET (midday) until December 3 at 12.00 (midday) OR until extra production capacity is full.

JL Velvet Rose

3 December
20% discount on Touch Me & Nappa Stock Leathers (so no waiting list leathers) for Custom Made Planners & Bags.
👉🏽 This discount will be applied automatically and is only applied to the base planner, not on additional options.
⭐️ You can mix and match, so it’s also possible to choose this type of leather only for the outside or the inside of the planner.
💌 Also available for email orders that are finalized on this day. Please email us about your order beforehand, so we can finalize your order in time. The email order must be paid on this day.
📆 Available from December 3 at 12.00 CET (midday) until December 4 at 12.00 CET (midday).

4 December
🎁 WIN René van der Spek’s favorite planner!
René van der Spek created and handmade this planner of his choice for you.
⭐️ How to participate? Details will be posted on December 4 on Instagram and Facebook.
📆 You can enter from December 4 at 12.00 CET (midday) until December 5 at 12.00 CET (midday). We will announce the winner on December 5.

5 December
All Custom Made planners that are ordered today will include the VDS Blind Embossed Logo (free of charge)!
You don’t have to select embossing as an additional option or do anything extra, it will automatically be included on your planner. If you feel more comfortable mentioning that you want the free VDS Blind Embossed Logo on your planner you can always include this information in the product or order notes.
Next to that, at the check-out page you will see a pop-up telling you that the VDS Blind Embossed Logo will be included on your planner(s).
💌  This includes email orders that are finalised on this day as well. Please email us about your order beforehand, so we can finalize your order in time. The email order must be paid on this day.
👉🏽 The VDS blind embossed logo will be placed on the inside bottom left pocket.
📆 Included on orders placed from December 5 at 12.00 CET (midday) until December 6 at 12.00 CET (midday).

6 December
Today you get a 40% discount !!! on all Touch Me (Ready to Ship) Planners and Touch Me (Ready to Ship) Pen Pouches, Credit Card Wallets, and Zipper Wallets via discount code vds40tm.
Shipped within 1 workday!
⭐️ For size A5 please note that the Krause Ring Mechanisms are currently out of stock and in back order. Your TM A5 planner will be shipped on December 31. As for all our planner orders, you will receive a Fedex email with track&trace when your item is shipped.
📆 This discount code is valid from December 6 at 12.00 CET (midday) until December 7 at 12.00 CET (midday).

7 December
🎁 Which leather accessory would you like to have in your favorite VDS leather?
⭐️ How to participate? Make a sketch of it, write down what it is, and include your vds leather and stitching choices. Post this as a story and tag us in it @vdsshop. We will pick a winner and make the accessory for you!
📆 You can enter from December 7 at 12.00 CET (midday) until December 10 at 12.00 CET (midday). We will announce the winner on December 11.

8 December
🎁 What would you like to know about VDS? Send your question in the comments. Petra will answer a selection of them in a video that will be posted at the end of December.
👉🏽 We will select a question from the comments to win a custom made planner of your choice.
📆 You can submit your question via instagram or facebook from December 8 at 12.00 CET (midday) until December 10 at 12.00 CET (midday). We will announce the winner when the video is posted at the end of December.

9 December
🚀 Today we offer Fast Shipping on all Custom Made Planner orders!
Only available for online orders (so no email orders and no email special additions). There is NO extra cost involved.
⭐️ Fast shipping will be applied to the first 30 planners. Your order will be shipped within 3 workdays.
When you reach the check-out page (the step where you fill in your address details) you will see a pop-up that tells you that Fast Shipping is applicable to your order. When we reach the final amount of 30 planners you will see a pop-up at the check-out page telling you that the fast shipping options are full.
👉🏽 Your fast shipping order will go into production immediately so cancellations or modifications are not possible.
📆 Fast Shipping for Custom Made Planners is available from December 9 at 12.00 CET (midday) until December 10 at 12.00 (midday) OR until extra production capacity is full.

10 December
Today you get a 15% discount on Nubuck Leathers for Custom Made Planners and Bags. Next to our stock leathers Nubuck Écume and Nubuck Terre we also have waiting list leathers and ‘leathers of the month’ available today until stock is finished: Nubuck Cyclade, Thuya, Myrtille, and Cashmere.
👉🏽 This discount will be applied automatically and is only applied to the base planner, not on additional options.
⭐️ You can mix and match, so it’s also possible to choose this type of leather only for the outside or the inside of the planner.
💌  Also available for email orders that are finalized on that day. Please email us about your order beforehand, so we can finalize your order in time. The email order must be paid on this day.
📆 This discount is available for orders placed on December 10 at 12.00 CET (midday) until December 11 at 12.00 CET (midday).

11 December
🎁 Win Petra’s Real Ostrich Wheat planner!
⭐️ How to participate? Post a picture of your VDS Real Ostrich Planner. Tag us in it @vdsshop and use #vdsrealostrich.
👉🏽 Planner details: Junior 16mm, outside and inside leather: real ostrich less quill Wheat, matching stitching, bontex stiffener, back pocket, secretarial flap left and right side.
📆 You can participate from December 11 at 12.00 CET (midday) until December 14 at 12.00 CET (midday). We will announce the winner on December 14.

12 December
Free Squared Corners with a Custom Made Planner.
👉🏽 You have to select Squared Corners at the additional options section of your planner. You will see there that this item is available for FREE when you add it to your order.
💌  Also available for email orders that are finalized on that day. Please email us about your order beforehand, so we can finalize your order in time. The email order must be paid on this day.
📆 Available from December 12 at 12.00 CET (midday) until December 13 at 12.00 CET (midday).

13 December
All Custom Made Codex orders in ALL SIZES will receive a Touch Me Codex Standard+Mega for Free.
👉🏽 You can mention in the order notes which colour you want.
💌  Also available for email orders that are finalized on that day. Please email us about your order beforehand, so we can finalize your order in time. The email order must be paid on this day.
📆 Available from December 13 at 12.00 CET (midday) until December 14 at 12.00 CET (midday).

14 December
🎁 Name the leather of the month January (JL Velvet ….. ). A picture of this leather will be posted on this day.
👉🏽 Write your name of choice “JL Velvet …..” in the comments below. We will pick the winning name on December 17 and that person gets a planner of choice in that leather.
📆 You can participate from December 14 at 12.00 CET (midday) until December 17 at 12.00 CET (midday). We will announce the winner on December 17.

15 December
Order up to 10 FREE leather samples (no real ostrich) and only pay for shipping.
👉🏽 Just go to the VDS Samples Page to select your choice of samples. You can of course include other items as well together with the samples in the same order. A maximum of 10 leather samples can be add per order.
📆 Available from December 15 at 12.00 CET (midday) until December 16 at 12.00 CET (midday).

16 December
All Custom Made Ring Planner orders in all sizes will receive a Free Touch Me Ring Planner in the size and colour of your choice.
👉🏽 Please mention in the order notes which size and colour and (silver) ring size you want. (If you want Gold rings you will have to pay the extra charge to make them Gold. In that case we will email you about it. Please mention it in the order notes if you want Gold rings)
💌  Also available for email orders that are finalized on that day. Please email us about your order beforehand, so we can finalize your order in time. The email order must be paid on this day.
📆 Available from December 16 at 12.00 CET (midday) until December 17 at 12.00 CET (midday).

17 December
Today you get a 15% discount on JL stock leathers + JL waiting list leathers for Custom Made Planners & Bags. The discount will only be applied to the base planner, not to additional options.
💡 This includes All JL stock leathers (also JL Velvet Undyed and JL Velvet Sand), as well as our leather of the month JL Velvet Rose. The waiting list leathers that will be available are JL Porpora, JL Avocado, JL Violet, JL Rosa, JL Cipria. Previous leather of the month ‘JL Argilla’ will also be available today!
👉🏽 Normally the JL Leather are 10% more expensive so instead of +10% you will see -5% mentioned for these leathers on our webshop.
⭐️ You can mix and match, so it’s also possible to choose this type of leather only for the outside or the inside of the planner.
💌  Also available for email orders that are finalized on that day. Please email us about your order beforehand, so we can finalize your order in time. The email order must be paid on this day.
📆 This discount is available for orders placed on December 17 at 12.00 CET (midday) until December 18 at 12.00 CET (midday).

18 December
Today you can order a custom made planner in a very special leather: ‘Christmas Suede’. It’s Black Calf Leather with a gold “drop” finish. There is no extra cost for this leather and production time is the same as for all other custom made orders.
⭐️ You can mix and match, so it’s also possible to choose this type of leather only for the outside or the inside of the planner.
💌  Also available for email orders that are finalized on that day. Please email us about your order beforehand, so we can finalize your order in time. The email order must be paid on this day.
Ps. There is no special ‘Christmas Suede’ stitching. You can select any stitching for this leather.
📆 Available from 18 December at 12.00 CET (midday) until 19 December at 12.00 CET (midday).

Christmas Suede

19 December
Free Chunky or A4 Clasp with a Custom Made Planner.
👉🏽 You have to select the clasp you want (Chunky or A4) at the additional options section of your planner. You will see there that this item is available for FREE when you add it to your order.
💌  Also available for email orders that are finalized on that day. Please email us about your order beforehand, so we can finalize your order in time. The email order must be paid on this day.
💡 Please note that if you go for a ‘Nomad’ (TN) Planner, you will have to pay € 20,- / € 25,- (depending on the planner size) to include a clasp, because the base planner is without a clasp. The upgrade to a Chunky, A5, or A4 clasp is free.
📆 Available from December 19 at 12.00 CET (midday) until December 20 at 12.00 CET (midday).

20 December
Free Big Back Pocket with a Custom Made Planner.
👉🏽 You have to select the Big Back Pocket at the additional options section of your planner. You will see there that this item is available for FREE when you add it to your order.
💌  Also available for email orders that are finalized on that day. Please email us about your order beforehand, so we can finalize your order in time. The email order must be paid on this day.
📆 Available from December 20 at 12.00 CET (midday) until December 21 at 12.00 CET (midday).

21 December
🎁 WIN the exact same VDS planner of someone else in the VDS Community.
👉🏽 Post a story of the post in which you saw your dream planner and tag us in it @vdsshop and use #iwantyourvdsplanner
📆 You can enter from December 21 at 12.00 CET (midday) until December 23 at 12.00 CET (midday). We will announce the winner on December 23.

22 December
🎁 Be the first person to solve the VDS Christmas puzzle (the puzzle will become available at 12.00 CET (midday) on this day and you can post your answer in the comments) and win a complete TM set! Including: TM Ring planner of your choice, TM Codex Standard+Mega, TM Pen Pouch, TM Credit Card Wallet, TM Zipper Wallet. You can pick the colours of your choice (according to availability).
📆 You can participate from December 22 at 12.00 CET (midday) on via instagram and facebook. The first person to solve the puzzle will win.