Showing posts with label advent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label advent. Show all posts

Thursday, 23 December 2010

Some beautiful music for Advent Thursdays...

Do you recognise this one?


It's a Silent Night in Croatian.

The Christmas is almost here - are you ready? :)
Hope you are, and that you are happy and with your loved ones.

Thursday, 16 December 2010

Some beautiful music for Advent Thursdays...

I love Celine Dion's performance of this song!

 

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Some beautiful music for Advent Thursdays...



Another great Christmas song! Oh, I love Christmas songs... :)


Hope you are enjoying this time before Christmas and all the commercials, and crowd everywhere you go didn't ruin it for you.

Monday, 6 December 2010

It's St. Nicholas' Day

Here in Croatia we celebrate St. Nicholas' Day. Last evening we shined our boots and put them at/by the window. This morning the presents were awaiting! Mine had a pretty good stuff: scarf, warm socks and some candy - all the appropriate things for this year's cold winter.

If you aren't familiar with St. Nicholas here's a little bit about him from Wiki:
" Saint Nicholas (270–6 December 346) is the canonical and most popular name for Nikolaos of Myra, a saint and Greek Bishop of Myra (Demre, in Lycia, part of modern-day Turkey). Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nikolaos the Wonderworker. He had a reputation for secret gift-giving, such as putting coins in the shoes of those who left them out for him, and thus became the model for Santa Claus, whose English name comes from the Dutch Sinterklaas."

He's a patron saint of travelers and unmarried girls :) as well as children. I wrote about him and our customs last year in one of my posts - if you are interested you can read it here.
(picture borrowed from here )

I hope St. Nicholas brings you a great beginning of the week.

Thursday, 2 December 2010

Some beautiful music for Advent Thursdays...

Advent has started - it means only 4 weeks till Christmas - YAY!
For this period the Thursday music will be dedicated to Christmas :) to get us into the holiday spirit.
Enjoy!



One of my favourites! It's old, but great :) The hairstyle, the wardrobe....