Christmas Archives

Familiar Items, Colours, and Rituals Around Christmas

When you think of a cozy Christmas, it is often the familiar decorations and rituals you know from your childhood.

I confess to a slight obsession with folding German Christmas stars from paper. My love affair with paper began in

This little tablescape we had for the Christmas Eve dinner had the same rustic touch as our Christmas tree.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Master Peter, and the two ubiquitous young Cratchits went to fetch the goose, with which they soon

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) I’Yo Ho! my boys,” said Fezziwig. “No more work to-night! Christmas Eve, Dick! Christmas, Ebenezer! Let’s have

Just as the McRae family, the original owners of this remarkable mansion, greeted their friends for pre-season celebrations, the University

We had guests over the evening before Christmas Eve. Therefore the table setting needed to look elegant but with little effort.

Anne Brontë (1820-1849) Music I love–but never strainCould kindle raptures so divine,So grief assuage, so conquer pain,And rouse this pensive

Adrian Gibb I say to you now, if I may be so bold,That the wind in my face is colder