Christmas All Year Community

We celebrate Christmas in July here in Australia (not everyone does, but we do). The English and Irish are said to have started it up in the Blue Mountains because they missed their hot Christmas dinners - it is way too hot here in Australia to have a hot Christmas dinner with all the trimmings because it is rarely below 30C here on Christmas day (being the middle of summer).

I celebrate it on the Saturday night that is the closest date to the 25th.

We have baked ham, turkey and all the trimmings - I even make a Christmas pudding. I usually invite from 20 to 40 people and I do all the cooking. It is such a wonderful opportunity to catch up with friends that we don't get to see at the real Christmas because of family obligations...

I will post more about it as we get closer.

Thanks for sharing Noel.

I made up the template for our Christmas in July invitations today - although they won't be printed until the guest list is finalised later in June.

I am going for a traditional theme this year, lots of red, green, gold and silver. Oh and lots of .

My birthday is July 14th so I'm on a mission to combine CIJ and my birthday. My theme is purples, greens and pale yellow, the colours of my aromatherapy business!

Noel+ wrote:I love aromatherapy! Do you have a site on the web? If not, do you know a great one for oils? I love reed diffusers but the oil only lasts a week or so!

You can find my wee site here; Bloomin' Lovely Aromatherapy

If you want something longer lasting for fragrancing your home, you might look into aroma granules or get an electric oil diffuser.

The electric burners don't generate the heat the usual candle powered oil burners do, so your oils may last longer. The granules last much longer. You use about a half tsp, in the same manner as you do oils. Hope that info has been helpful.

For purchasing oils, I'm not sure where you are, but if there's a therapist in your area, he or she may be able to point in the direction of a reputable site. Here in England, I buy my oils from an organic producer in Merseyside, called Phytobotanica.

Merry Sage wrote:You can find my wee site here; Bloomin' Lovely Aromatherapy

Feel free to add your aromatherapy site to the Holiday Surfing board too.

This year we will celebrate Christmas in July on Saturday July 26th (because we always have our party on the weekend closest to the 25th).

I am really looking forward to it, as usual. I love having two Christmas celebrations.

Oh thanks, I have added your site to my favourites so I can have a good look when I have time.

Cheers

Mrs.Claus wrote:

Merry Sage wrote:You can find my wee site here; Bloomin' Lovely Aromatherapy

Feel free to add your aromatherapy site to the Holiday Surfing board too.

Very kind of you. Thank you!

I'm hoping to hold my Christmas in July around the 14th, which is my birthday. Thats a Monday, so I may go with Sunday the 13th. All this predicated on us being moved and settled by then!

*fingers & toes crossed"

thanks for shareing your CIJ info...interesting.I thaught everyone celebratd it in december...lol...I learn something new all the time...

we dont do CIJ..but im looking forward to hearing all about yours...my birthday is july 17...its just too hot for me to even think of it as a holiday....usually tho i will start to make my christmas cards by then...and start searching for new music to listen too...

Winterself wrote:thanks for shareing your CIJ info...interesting.I thaught everyone celebratd it in december...lol...I learn something new all the time...

We do celebrate Christmas on December 25 like everyone else.

But we also celebrate Christmas in July as well - July is the middle of winter in Australia and when the Irish and Scots came out here, they missed their snowy, cold Christmas's. So they decided to start a tradition and have a festive feast in our winter (July). It caught on and is getting bigger and bigger each year. I know quite a few people who do it each year now.

I think its a great tradition...if it was cold here during july i would do it..

Winterself wrote:I think its a great tradition...if it was cold here during july i would do it..

THat is the main point of having it = in Australia we get to sample a white Christmas (like you normally have).

In the US and UK you get to sample a hot Christmas (like we normally have).