Comments on: First candle of Advent

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:32:47 +0000

What a beautiful post. I love the advent books and tree…beautiful tradition. I actually just started reading your blog a couple of weeks ago too and I look forward to each new post!

By: Kylie

Kylie — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:48:27 +0000

beautiful – thank yo for sharing

I’d love to hear more about the advent candle tradition – yours is the second blog I’ve read it on this week, and I don’t know much about it’s origins?

By: suse

suse — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:49:46 +0000

I love your cloth and candleholders! We light a candle for each of the Sundays in Advent, and we place things on our Advent table, building it up week by week. I’ve blogged about it ad nauseum in the past …

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:41:25 +0000

My Grandma was from Austria and we always celebrated St. Nicholas day with a stocking with candy and an orange in the toe. My Dad used to do the tree on Christmas Eve, too. I thought Santa did it and it was always such a special thing. Looking back I have no idea how he did it all in one night. We do a pickle in the tree with a present for the person who finds it and we decorate a gingerbread house every year, first with the children and now with the grandchildren.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:21:02 +0000

Thank you for sharing your traditions – its fun to see how other people celebrate this season.
My sister and I are both Christmas elves in disguise! Her house is already decorated – tree and all. I’ll put up a post on the blog about our traditions.
Michelle

By: bells

bells — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:29:07 +0000

How lovely. I really love the sense of wanting to make Christmas something more than just consumerism, but also not going down too much of a religious route (if at all). I love your way of doing this.

It’s so hard to do the candles thing much when it doesn’t get dark til nearly 9pm though!