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Merry Christmas from Ermilia

25 Wednesday Dec 2013

Posted by Ermilia in Eliabeth, Ermisenda

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christmas, christmas jokes, christmas puns, happy holidays, inspiration, life, traditions, xmas jokes

Happy holidays everyone!

Ermisenda is already enjoying Christmas while Eliabeth still has to wait a couple hours. As we talked about what to write, Eliabeth had a major FAIL moment. Forgetting that the southern and northern hemispheres experience opposite seasons during the year, Eliabeth forgot it’s summer where Ermisenda lives! Too many songs about a white Christmas playing on the radio–or so Eliabeth claims.

Since we love showing different perspectives, we wanted to share the different Christmas traditions we partake in each year.

Eliabeth

My family is very artistic. Several years, we’ve created Christmas ornaments, some more elaborate than others. One year, we found some globes, houses, and other clear bobbles that split down the center. You filled them with glitter and figurines. Every year, I look for the Beauty and the Beast house ornament my mom made. It’s very special to me to take the time to decorate the tree together, because most of the ornaments are home-made or were purchased on a family trip. Some were gifts, but all have a special meaning and a story that goes with them. We only pull them out once a year, so getting to go through the ornaments is like telling each story again.

Ermisenda

When I was younger, we would group together other Spanish-speaking families (both Spanish and Latino, sometimes even Samoan families!) to have a big Christmas Eve. It included lots of food, dancing, and playing in the pool. In recent years, many families have moved away or friendships have changed. We still bring the closest friend families we have to create the family atmosphere here in Australia. I wouldn’t have it any other way because I do see them as family. Christmas day is more chillaxed. We open presents, talk, eat left overs, make more food, play in the pool some more, and watch movies with the immediate family plus maybe one other family. I’m not sure if any of that counts as tradition apart from the obvious putting up the tree, buying presents etc. But it reminds me of the importance of good people in your life, whether they are blood related or not.

Now some terrible Christmas jokes to shake your head at while smiling!

Q: Why was Santa’s little helper depressed?
A: Because he had low elf esteem.

Christmas: The time when everyone gets Santamental.

Why did the gingerbread man go to the doctor?
Because he was feeling crummy!

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Happy holidays everyone, whether you celebrate Christmas or something else, stay safe and enjoy the chance to relax. 🙂 We wish you the best.

– Ermilia

The Best Books

24 Monday Dec 2012

Posted by Ermilia in Eliabeth

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book, books, christmas, fantasy, fiction, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, holiday traditions, J. K. Rowling, reading, Thanksgiving, urban fantasy

books: best of 2012

For me, the best books create traditions.

I recently reread Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I was not only transported back into the world of Harry Potter, I was transported home to when my family would gather in the living room and read the Harry Potter books aloud. This one is probably my favorite because of the traditions it started.

Dementors, cloaked beings who feed on happiness, were first introduced in this book. The way you recover from a dementor attack is to eat a slab of chocolate. Well, it did not take my family long to latch on to that! As we were reading, as soon as a dementor entered the story, we would pause and  hand out chocolate. Around Thanksgiving and Christmas, we made a special tweak and pretended that eggnog worked just like chocolate.

Fill in the sentence and tell us what makes the best books for you.

-Eliabeth

Eternally lucky bamboo

26 Monday Dec 2011

Posted by Ermilia in Eliabeth

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christmas, inexpensive gifts, lucky bamboo

I don’t know how long bamboo usually lives, but between my boyfriend and I, it’s lucky if it lasts a few months.  When I asked my boyfriend what he wanted for Christmas, he told me to “be creative” because he knows I live on a budget.  This is what I came up with: the eternally lucky bamboo.

I dripped candle wax over paper towel rolls for the base of the bamboo.  The leaves are plastic leaves cut from a branch in the Hobby Lobby flower department and though you can’t see both colors very well in the ceramic bowl, there are blue and dark purple glass beads in a square bowl.  The beads are from Pets Mart and the bowl from Hobby Lobby.

Lucky bamboo you can’t kill.  Merry Christmas.

__picture it & write and Merry Christmas!

25 Sunday Dec 2011

Posted by Ermilia in Ermisenda, Picture it & Write!

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christmas, curse, fiction, life, music, photography, poetry, snowflake, spirit, stories, witch, writing

Before Picture it & write get’s underway, Merry Christmas! Feliz Navidad! Vrolijk Kerstfeest! メリークリスマス! We hope everyone is having a great time with their loved ones. (Oh and I tried to write a Christmas contribution… but I failed miserably. I hope our contributors will have a greater Christmas spirit than I.)

I urge people to join in, comment with your paragraph of fiction to accompany the image. It doesn’t have to follow my story or reflect the same themes. It can be a poem or in a different language (provide a translation please :)). Anyone who wants to join in, is welcome. This photograph has been reblogged under Ermisenda on tumblr.

The witch cackled into the frosty night. The cold air blew her hair in all directions. Her near-translucent locks flailed violently. The tentacles of her hair bit and stung her pale white face. She spat into the bubbling cauldron. If they wanted to banish her from these lands, these lands which belonged to her father, they would have to do a lot more than beat her. The stench of blood tickled her nose. Ancient phrases escaped her lips in a murmur. She dipped her fingers into the frothing mixture before marking her arms and face. A curse would plague this land. She watched as the last ingredient, a single snowflake, fell into the concoction. Something erupted from within the cauldron and the liquid cascaded down the hill, weaving between the pine trees, searching.

– Ermisenda Alvarez

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Creative Christmas gifts

06 Tuesday Dec 2011

Posted by Ermilia in Eliabeth

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christmas, lucky bamboo, presents

I’ve always been a fan of personalized gifts (partially because it’s hard for me to afford expensive gifts for everyone.  This year, I asked my boyfriend repeatedly what he wanted for Christmas and never got a straight answer until finally he just told me to “be creative.” “You asked for it,” I replied.  He doesn’t read this blog, but if any of you know him, don’t spoil the surprise.

First, a bit of a background.  Boyfriend and I have been together for three years as of September.  We met in Japanese class and we both have terrible luck and end up killing our lucky bamboo.  My original plan was to hand craft a bamboo plant so that neither of us could kill it and add a new stalk for every year we are together. Thankfully, I checked the meanings behind the number of stalks because I had forgotten that four is the number for death in Japanese culture, so a lucky bamboo with four stalks is the equivalent of giving someone a death wish. So, perhaps I better leave it at three.

On the off chance Boyfriend does suddenly decide to read our blog, I won’t be posting pictures until after Christmas but when I do, I’ll also write step-by-step instructions for anyone who wants to use the idea later.

The stem is looking amazing so far, anyone have ideas what material to use for the leaves?

__keyboard and christmas tree concepts

03 Saturday Dec 2011

Posted by Ermilia in Ermisenda

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art, books, christmas, concept, design, drinking, keyboard, photography, spirit, tea, tree, writing

I found these two cool concepts. I thought I’d share. The geek in me loved the keyboard cups for tea.

The Christmas Book Tree is amazing! If only I had enough red and green books to create my own. 😀 It’s the perfect mix of Christmas spirit and reading fever!

– Ermisenda Alvarez

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