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Christmas is a time for worship, family reunions, holidays and good cheer..............but not for all.
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Pessoasssssss, olhem istooooo é meu Advents Calendar!!! Quem me deu tudinho desta lindeza sem fim foi minha AS do Grupo Fada Madrinha, a Paulinha - Promess - Foférrima, aqui de Minas!!!!!!
Paulinha tô apaixonada e não vejo a hora de chegar amanhã!!!!!!!!! Obrigada linda, sem palavras para agradecer tanto carinho!!!!
Ahhhh, esqueci de dizer, são 25 miminhos a serem abertos todos os dias!!! Até o NATAL!!!! Yupiiiiiiiii
Thanks to all my friends for a fantastic year, and hoping you all have a wonderful holiday season!
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A picture taken at Christmas 1981 - our son, Edward's, first Christmas.
Christmas Memories
Christmas comes gradually to our house - gradually and somewhat gently.
Of course, it wasn't always like that. When I was a child, Christmas arrived suddenly! It came on Christmas morning when we got out of bed and, opening the living room door, found that the room had been magically transformed by a fully decorated tree.
Santa always left our stockings at the foot of our beds. I still recall waking up and wiggling my toes to see if the stocking was there - and the joy and wonderment of finding it and realizing who had put it there! When you moved it with your foot it made a special sound that cannot be compared to anything else.
But it all happened on that one day - which made the whole experience that much more exciting! Mind you, there were still events that led up to Christmas - advertising on radio and TV still encouraged us to get our shopping done early and there was still the Santa Claus parade. More important than the parade was the opening of "Toyland." Yes, my friends, I remember when there were no malls, the stores were on one or two streets downtown and did not keep a full selection of toys all year long. “Toyland” meant that Christmas was really coming!
But in spite of this limited hype, things didn't start to get serious until the party on the last day of school. After school had ended I would get money from Mom - perhaps as much as two or three dollars - to go downtown and buy something special for my grandmother. It was usually a "knick-knack" to go on her mantle. Dogs, cats and other cute animals were very popular with me and, as a result, Grandmother's mantle resembled a menagerie. I am sure that many a saleslady was silently screaming at how much time it took me to choose “just the right piece.”
On Christmas Eve morning my sister and I would take the bus to Grandmother's house to get a pair of her stockings. She wore those special "old lady" stockings that were perfect for hanging up. Nylons just didn't seem to work! We would phone her in the morning. "Nanny, do you have any of your stockings you could let us borrow?"
The answer was always “yes” - for all her many grandchildren. I'm surprised that Christmas Day found her with any stockings left to wear.
The bus ride to her house was also special. People seemed to act differently because it was Christmas Eve. People smiled more and we heard those magic words - Merry Christmas! - often.
Over the years our habits have changed. Christmas doesn’t arrive as suddenly as when I was a child. I couldn’t possibly do what my parents did on Christmas Eve. But we are still a family that decorates the tree just before Christmas – as opposed to just before Remembrance Day - and I am, purposely, one of the last on my street to decorate the outside of my house. But mid November finds us at the tree farm picking out our tree and around the end of November we start to see hints of Christmas. The ornate wall hanging suddenly shows up. Then, a bit later, the everyday mugs disappear and are replaced by the Christmas mugs. By Advent Sunday, the ceramic Christmas tree will have appeared. And a bit later, my well-thumbed copy of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” can be heard calling out to me. But the tree - in all its glorious and majestic splendor - is still left until almost Christmas. On the other hand, our decorations stay up and the outside lights remain on until January 6 - Twelfth Night.
Bringing out the Christmas decorations is always special. Seeing that particular favorite ornament is like welcoming back an old friend. Seeing the boys’ special ornaments always brings back memories of Christmases past. And even trying to figure out how strings of lights could possibly have twisted themselves that much while sitting for eleven months in a motionless box, is more or less tolerable!
Yes, we are still caught up in the rush of Christmas shopping and the dash to make sure that we have those last minute things which, in spite of having celebrated many Christmases, always seem to get forgotten.
But even so, our Christmas seems to come gradually and gently. Perhaps that fits with how the baby Jesus arrived.
May your Christmas be joyous and gentle.
A glimpse of Christmas light, taken from the Christmas tree at hotel Westin,Dhaka.
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This year, as our Christmas tree, we opted for branches that I pruned from our apricot tree. Indoors and in water, the blossoms are opening.
Is it Christmas yet?:)
Its fun to make Christmas orders when its 100 degrees outside.
Here are different poinsettias, wreaths and plaid buttons.
Many thanks to Dora dorasexplorations.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/plaid-cane-wee... for her wonderful plaid cane tutorial!
A wallhanging christmas decoration I've made for a friend ^^
Biggest star is 6inches from point to point. I used cream cardstock, gold snowflake christmas paper, sparkly black paper, blue and gold glittery paper, a star embelishment, burnished gold eyelet, gold embossing and a red and gold decorative thread.
This friend doesn't really celebrate Christmas, but not for want of trying, he just doesn't have the time or energy - so I am making him a few things and sending them over XD
Ssshhh nobody tell him!
Played around with the macro and the christmas tree. Feel free to use under the Creative Commons license on the pictures.
The Christmas season is here! And to start, I decided to make this little scenery thug features a Christmas train going through the town streets and coffee workers looking at it on amazement! Choo Choo!
Wanna see me assemble the set? Watch this video:
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My illustrated Christmas card inspired by the theme of the "Christmas Time Is In The Air Again" song, I made it as part of the Team Mariah's task.
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