How to Make Wreaths Shears, thread, wire, evergreens and willow switches – or a wire frame- are your five basic ingredients for a wreath. With …
Vintage Christmas Displays to Make
Make Your Own Unique, Eye-Catching Christmas Displays Don’t put up the same BORING decorations that everyone else has… Do something DIFFERENT this year! Are you …
Christmas in Ecuador
Christmas and the New Year are celebrated as the same festival, not separately as in North America. Rich and poor prepare new costumes for Christmas, …
Christmas in Bolivia
Preparation for the birth of the Christ-child begins on December 1. Children gather flowers, particularly the pastora, the national flower and much like a poinsettia, …
Christmas in Puerto Rico
If you were spending Christmas in Puerto Rico, you would say Merry Christmas this way: Felices Pascuas! This is in Spanish, the language of Puerto …
Pennsylvania Dutch Christmas Customs
The kitchen is fragrant with the smell of baking cookies. Every inch of table and shelf space is taken up with old-fashioned tin cookie cutters …
Christmas in Hawaii
Hawaii has its own natural Christmas decorations-festive poinsettia and red, waxy anthuriums bloom on byways and decorate homes. A Matson freighter, nicknamed the “Christmas Tree …
Christmas in Alaska
Christmas time, in “Uncle Sam’s Attic,” as it has been called, the glory of the day melts into the grandeur of the night, for at …
Christmas in Nicaragua
Christmas begins officially on December 6th in Nicaragua, but actual activities begin on December 16 with the performance of the lodging difficulties of Mary and …
Christmas in Sweden
In Sweden, the celebration begins on December 13, St. Lucia’s day. The foreigner in Stockholm on the morning of that day might be surprised to …