Ilona's Christmas and Winter Lenses
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Get Ready for Lots of Christmas Celebrating
I love Christmas enough to think about it in June... or July ... or just about anytime. Complain about Christmas starting too soon? Not me. Every year I promise - and my husband with me, that we will start early to keep from getting caught up in the rush, but I think October is just not early enough. So I am collecting the new Christmas lenses that I want to develop right here all in one place. No losing lenses, the way I lose those early Christmas purchases. Ever done that?
Collections of Christmas cookies, Advent traditions, Christmas menus.... they will all find a home on this index, right at my fingertips. I can't stand how organized I feel right now! And it is all shared with you, my friends. How cool is that?
With occasional puns, too...
Collections of Christmas cookies, Advent traditions, Christmas menus.... they will all find a home on this index, right at my fingertips. I can't stand how organized I feel right now! And it is all shared with you, my friends. How cool is that?
With occasional puns, too...
My Christmas Tradition Pages
...out on the web...
- Advent Blog
- Every year I make daily devotionals for Advent
- Loving Christmas
- My portal to the Christmas site
- Christmas in Ohio
- How we celebrate Christmas in the Heartland
- Christmas Traditions
- My original pages of a cozy Christmas celebration
Christmas
Decorate and Celebrate
Christmas Traditions
all about celebrating Christmas
All over the world, people are celebrating Christmas with their many customs and traditions. Don't you love to see what other countries do to celebrate this holiday we hold in common? I do.A Hungarian Christmas
A Scottish Christmas
German Brides Tree
A Swedish Christmas
Swedish Wheat Weaving
I Love Winter, and part of the reason is because that is when we have the Christmas holiday. There are other reasons to love this season, as well.
Grandma Moses was known for her many winter scene paintings. You might enjoy both her folk style and her Yankee attitude.
Grandma Moses and Success
Grandmas Moses Paints Holidays
Advent Calenders
a fun tradiiton
Celebrating Advent can keep you and your family centered in what is often a melee of busy schedules. My grandmother always sent us a beautiful German made paper Advent calender every year. In recent years my family has had fun with a little Advent "village" with little doors that open up to reveal a secret treat. The kids take turns opening "their" door on rotating days. And they are all teens and young adults now!
At Christmas we all become little children- or should!
At Christmas we all become little children- or should!
Swedish candles brighten the dark nights
Liljeholmens White Kanalljus Taper Candles 8" - 30-pak - Sweden
Amazon Price: (as of 06/02/2012)
They are the best quality, and that makes such a difference in how they burn.
"They use stearin which has a vegetable base and produces an extremely clean and slow burning candle. In addition, these are totally dripless because of the built-in drain channels that reuse and burn the stearin."
Sing a-long Christmas Tunes
| Track | Artist | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|
| I'll Be Home for Christmas | Rascal Flatts | Unwrapped - EP | |
| Tennessee Christmas | Amy Grant | Amy Grant Christmas: The Complete Collection | |
| Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song) | Amy Grant | Amy Grant Christmas: The Complete Collection | |
| What Child Is This? (Live) | Hillsong Live | Celebrating Christmas (Live) | |
| Silent Night (Live) | Hillsong Live | Jesus Christmas (Live) | |
| God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Live) | Hillsong Live | Celebrating Christmas (Live) | |
| Carol of the Bells | Maranatha! Christmas | Top 40 Christmas | |
| Come On Ring Those Bells | The Maranatha! Singers | Top 25 Kids' Christmas Songs (Split Tracks) | |
| Angels We Have Heard On High | Maranatha! Christmas | Top 40 Christmas |
Christmas Foods
including Christmas cookies
I absolutely love Christmas foods. Too much, so. They are full of sugar and butter, and spices, they are rich and luxurious and found within every store, on magazine pages, and on practically every media outlet. Blogs overflow with posts about them. With pictures! Our dieting doesn't stand a chance.However, did you know that Advent season, the one leading up to the Christmas feast, was one of fasting, much like Lenten season? Yes, it is true and we would gain much less weight over the month of December if we observed it that way. But I doubt if any of us will go quite that far in our Advent observances.
Here are lenses on all that wonderful Christmas food. Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming features. Yum!
Yes, Christmas cookies count as "food", they have fruit and nuts in them, don't they?
Food for the Holidays
Menus, Recipes, and Tips
Gingerbread House
Need a Quick, Fun Idea?
Skate over to the Gingerbread Christmas Theme Lens, while you are at it.
Create-a-treat Gingerbread House Kit, Deluxe Model, (Decorative Outer Case As Seen in Picture)
Amazon Price: (as of 06/02/2012)
My children and I had fun putting together a quick gingerbread house from a kit. It was a quick project and looked festive- plus we all had lots of fun!
Christmas Gift Ideas
for your favorite people
Christmas Gifts for Women
Random Lenses for Gift Ideas
Decorate for the Holidays
Fun Stuff
Featuring Winter
and other winter themes
Some people love winter, and Christmas is not the only holiday during the months when the cold winds blow. Here are lenses related to winter in some way or another....
Thanksgiving Lenses
Best Squidoo Christmas
from other lensmasters
Three featured at a time, from a growing list of extra special Christmas pages.
Get Ready For Christmas on Squidoo
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by Ilona1
I love Christmas, and only a little after I started writing about gardening... I began to set down all my favorite traditions for the Christmas... more »
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Advent Blog
Advent Calender
Byers Choice Christmas House Advent Calendar
Amazon Price: $76.00 (as of 06/02/2012)
Christmas candles
100% Beeswax Candles - Set of 4 - 8" Advent Tapers
Amazon Price: $18.00 (as of 06/02/2012)
