Our Etsy Metal blog carnival topic for this month is 'How do you celebrate the holidays? Which holidays do you celebrate? What foods do you make? (of course we have to discuss food!) What special holiday jewelry do you make?'
Well my family just celebrated Thanksgiving in a meek and mild way, mostly by cooking, watching football, relaxing, eating, and pounding a little metal.
Now that it's December, we'll be gearing up for Christmas. My husband is a guitar builder and owns a music store so he spent Black Friday putting up all his store decorations. For many years, he'd usually spend part of the day on thanksgiving putting Christmas decorations up on our house - lights and Frosty and Santa and his sleigh on the roof. Traditionally, 2 weeks later (every year) there would be high winds that would blow them all down. We don't put them up any more!
Well my family just celebrated Thanksgiving in a meek and mild way, mostly by cooking, watching football, relaxing, eating, and pounding a little metal.
Now that it's December, we'll be gearing up for Christmas. My husband is a guitar builder and owns a music store so he spent Black Friday putting up all his store decorations. For many years, he'd usually spend part of the day on thanksgiving putting Christmas decorations up on our house - lights and Frosty and Santa and his sleigh on the roof. Traditionally, 2 weeks later (every year) there would be high winds that would blow them all down. We don't put them up any more!
 | Traditional food we have during the holidays - well my husband needs to have chicken and mashed potatoes on Christmas Day, where we will be joined with our 3 sons and any significant others that are in the neighborhood. |
| I'm Greek and have to at least make baklava, in addition to a few other special Greek cookies, like koulourakia, fenikia, and a few non-Greek ones as well! I try really hard not to eat too many! |  |
We do get a tree and decorate it as close to Christmas as we can (not because we necessarily like to do it that way, but it just ends up that way!) Sometimes it actually is on Christmas Eve, always an adventure!
For New Year's Day, I always make spanakopita (Just like my mother did) with a coin hidden in it somewhere. Whoever gets the piece with the coin is supposed to have good luck throughout the new year.
I've been thinking of making some holiday ornaments with metal and enamel for about the last 4 or 5 years. I had an actual idea for them this year and maybe I will get some done for 2014! Time goes by way too quickly!!
For New Year's Day, I always make spanakopita (Just like my mother did) with a coin hidden in it somewhere. Whoever gets the piece with the coin is supposed to have good luck throughout the new year.
I've been thinking of making some holiday ornaments with metal and enamel for about the last 4 or 5 years. I had an actual idea for them this year and maybe I will get some done for 2014! Time goes by way too quickly!!
| I usually work on some new designs to give as Christmas presents. Haven't started that yet either. What do I do all day?! Spent today at a HUGE flea market/antique fair in Alameda. Didn't buy much, but got a lot of exercise walking all around!!  |
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