2000 Posts By Christmas 2012

[CandyKane]

Dd and I have been taking nature walks and picking flowers. We are drying them by pressing them in a book. We are going to make cards from them. I am also drying some yarrow leaves. These are perfect for miniature evergreen trees. We are gonna use them to decorate some Christmas cards.

[Noel+]

That's also a great craft for Christmas! I loved dried and/or pressed flowers and hope you enjoy every moment CK!

[Noel+]

Thanks Noel christmas cheer has helped May your day be filled with christmas cheer as well

THANK YOU my Christmas loving friend!

[Jolly O'Leary]

This is time change weekend in Europe and Waffle day in Sweden. For our liturgical brothers and sisters it is also the Annunciation which is the celebration of the Angel´s message to Mary that she would bear the Christ child. It is one of the milestones on the way to Christmas! We had a breakfast feast of red beet waffles with goat cheese, meatballs, potatoe salad and some leftover ham sandwich mix I made during the week. It was like a little Christmas buffet! Making chocolate waffles for dinner! Here are some recipes, you can translate them using http://www.google.com/translate.

http://www.tasteline.com/Recept/choklad ... _och_glass
http://www.tasteline.com/Recept/Rodbets ... h_rosmarin

Happy Annunciation Day! Merry Christmas in March!

[Jolly O'Leary]

http://higherthings.org/reflections/len ... 03-25.html

A Christmas devotion in March for my Christmas friends.

[tinseltown]

Just read the above so nice thanks for sharing Tomtemor and yes we;re on our way to Christmas

[Noel+]

http://higherthings.org/reflections/lent2012/2012-03-25.html

A Christmas devotion in March for my Christmas friends.

Thank you very much Jennifer! Your celebration sounded wonderful and your taking time to teach us was a little Christmas gift!

[tinseltown]

LOVE YOUR EASTER BUNNY NOEL SO SWEET WILL DECORATE NEXT WEEK FOR EASTER AS MARIA ARRIVING FROM ATHENS . CAN I ASK YOU TO PRAY AS FUNDING AT UNI MAY BE STOPPED AND ALL THE STUDENTS WILL LOSE THIS SEMESTER IF THAT HAPPENS . TRUSTING IN GOD AS ALWAYS . SO GLAD I HAVE MY CAY FRIENDS TO SHARE WITH . SO NICE TO HAVE A TASTE OF CHRISTMAS ALL YEAR ROUND WITH YOU GUYS

[Noel+]

Just posted a new Easter bunny siggie, but thanks for the compliment on last year's tinseltown. My Easter decorations are all completed .........and its lovely & SPring like inside my house. Outside we'll hit 90F this week - whew!

[Jolly O'Leary]

Noel, very cool computer art as usual! Your graphics are like little Christmas gifts we get all year long!

Not much Easter decorating here. I will not be online in April. I am going back into Swedish bootcamp with Sgt Anders (hubby) and no English allowed except for communicating with family on Saturdays. It is our last ditch effort to improve my "interview" Swedish.....

So, in anticipation, here is your Swedish lesson for the week. Swedes say Glad Påsk! with Påsk being the same word for Easter and Passover (as in Paschal lamb) so the greeting works well for both holidays! Swedes generally eat chicken for easter but lamb is becoming more popular. Hubby wants lamb for his birthday, April 12, so we will probably have chicken on Easter Sunday.

[Noel+]

Thank you Jennifer!

Oh, we will miss you all April! Just know we're thinking of you, sending Christmas wishes for a beautiful Spring your way!

[tinseltown]

Another cutie on our christmas site Noel waiting for my canadian friends who are coming for wine and nibbles . It looks quiet christmasy here with my candles and lanterns lit

[Christmas Crazy]

Jennifer, does that include reading English?
You can still log on and check things out here right?

In fact, you can practice your Swedish here. Post all your Christmas stuff in Swedish and I'll (meaning Google) will translate it for everyone.

Säg att du inte kan leva utan din Jul vänner!
Förbli starkt min Jul vän.
(I hope that translated correctly)

[Christmas Crazy]

Jag tänkte bara.
Här är vi, i slutet av mars.
Tre månader tidigare Jul och bara fyra månader till tills Hobby Lobby börjar lägga ut sina Juldekorationer mera
I slutet av juli har blivit min "Start av Julen".
Jul juice kan flöda hela året. Men de börjar koka när Julen närmar sig.


(I was just thinking.
Here we are, near the end of March.
Three months past Christmas and only four more months till Hobby Lobby starts putting out their Christmas decorations!
The end of July has become my "Start of the Christmas season".
Christmas juices may flow all year. But they start to boil when Christmas gets closer.)

[Noel+]

Yes, Christmas Crazy, on this site Christmas in July is the start of the holiday season! We share our celebrations and post pictures too!

[Christmas Crazy]

Just sat down to watch "A Charlie Brown Christmas".
I got the Blu-ray disc as a present this past year.
Love it!!!

[Noel+]

Ahh.......one of my faves! We're a funny family, cuz at Christmas time we watch it on tv [even though we have the dvd!] ENJOY!

[Jolly O'Leary]

Jag tänkte bara.
Här är vi, i slutet av mars.
Tre månader tidigare Jul och bara fyra månader till tills Hobby Lobby börjar lägga ut sina Juldekorationer mera
I slutet av juli har blivit min "Start av Julen".
Jul juice kan flöda hela året. Men de börjar koka när Julen närmar sig.


(I was just thinking.
Here we are, near the end of March.
Three months past Christmas and only four more months till Hobby Lobby starts putting out their Christmas decorations!
The end of July has become my "Start of the Christmas season".
Christmas juices may flow all year. But they start to boil when Christmas gets closer.)

Christmas Crazy is indeed crazy. LOL Thank you so much for your support. Google Translate is about 80% accurate so definitely good enough for our purposes. I received two surprises. One was a call for an interview at a health science center complex for a job I did not apply for. I THINK they got my name from another job I did not get. I will go for the interview on Friday. And the second surprise is that hubby and I will be in a commercial together! He is the "aspiring" actor and I just went along on the casting call because we had other business to attend to in the city. I think we play lottery winners for one of the lottery companies. It is a very nice chunk of change. It almost feels like Christmas!

[Jolly O'Leary]

Yes, Christmas Crazy, on this site Christmas in July is the start of the holiday season! We share our celebrations and post pictures too!

Christmas in July! woohoo! we celebrate for a week? how long do our other christmas friends celebrate? that reminds me, I need to order the starfish for the top of the little hawaiian tree we will put up. April and June are swedish months but May and July are english!

[Jolly O'Leary]

http://www.ksbpulse.com/2011/04/cardiac ... eason.html

Christmas meets Easter. I always wanted to put up a full sized Easter tree. but I envisioned a pink or lavender tree as the background. I also wanted a halloween tree that was black with all sorts of halloween ornaments on it. Maybe some day.