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Christmas Eve Memories Christmas Eve always brings a special memory back to me. In Briton, we never put our trees up until after the children were in bed Christmas Eve. My mother had three children by her second marriage. I was 9 when she remarried so it was not...
Christmas Traditions Next on our Christmas traditions. Advent Calendars Another tradition originating in Germany, German protestants began marking the days of advent in the early nineteenth century either by marking walls or doors with a piece of chalk or...
Christmas Traditions Carrying on with our holiday decoration traditions next is Holiday Wreaths. Wreaths are connected to the pagan holiday of Yule, which marks the winter solstice, which begins on the 22nd December and runs through until the 2nd January. The wreaths...
Christmas Traditions Today in our looking at tradition the origins of Christmas cards is fairly recent. Do you have your Christmas cards yet? Lisa has a great deal on her cards just go to Lisa’sKoubou Christmas Cards Popularised by Sir Henry Cole and artist John...
Christmas Traditions Just some titbit of the origins of our Christmas traditions. Today I will start with the Christmas tree. Christmas Trees (Real) Many people believe that Queen Victoria & Prince Albert introduced the first Christmas tree to Britain,...
