i miss

[piranha]

having an advent calendar. with the little doors, and surprise images behind them. (alternatively, with the little doors and xmas-themed chocolate pieces behind them :).

how odd. or maybe not. when i was a child believing in god and jesus, the anticipation before christmas was the very best thing. the advent wreath with its candles, one for each week, the smell of the pine resin mingling with candlewax and smoke -- it fills me with nostalgia to see one now, though it doesn't seem to be as wide-spread a tradition over here. it would feel weird to get one myself now that i no longer believe, but i still miss it. well, at least i can still bake special cookies!

more snow! it's colder now, and if this continues, it might yet become that snowfall i look forward to. and i am drinking rooibos tea with agave syrup, and lavender from the garden (matociquala gave me the idea, and it's yummy).

Comments

[submarine-bells.livejournal.com]

I miss the kind of advent calendars that didn't have chocolate in but instead were covered with silver glitter and had christmas scenes on and cute little mini-pictures (usually of xmas-related characters or critters, IIRC) behind the doors.

My local supermarket has the sort with chocolate in; and bizarrely enough, football-themed advent calendars. Presumably those have pics of the grinning mugs of footie players behind the little doors.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

yeah, i miss that kind a lot more than the chocolate kind; i just remember the chocolate kind as being an extra treat at the time. i had a glitter one with xmas-themed mini-pics for years, and i don't recall ever getting tired of re-opening the windows.

i feel tempted to make one, except for the pictures i'd use small scherenscnnitte (what the heck is that in english -- there's a word i haven't used in more than 30 years, *heh*) -- paper cutouts, i guess, and glue jeweltone-coloured transparent paper behind. come to think of it, i've never seen that sort of paper here either, and we used it a lot as kids, to make luminaries. hey, i could make an advent calendar in the shape of a lantern, and use it as a luminary. i like that, i think.

but definitely with the silver glitter!