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Post by myboysnme on Jan 6, 2018 22:59:08 GMT
I know many of you have ended your Christmas activities and probably packed up your decorations, but for me, tonight is the last day of the season. I used to do a layout about it since my kids used to get one last gift today. Now it is all rather anticlimactic.
So does anyone here do anything to acknowledge Epiphany or Twelfth Night and do you ever scrap it?
Tomorrow I will begin taking my tinsel off strand by strand and clear my mantle. It will take me a week or two to get the tree down and get everything packed away. I was thinking I might do a layout about the process of putting everything away, not that I don't have a million other subjects to scrap.
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Post by Linda on Jan 6, 2018 23:01:33 GMT
We did more when the kids were small - tonight just a nicer dinner and then tomorrow we have a special Mass at our parish (it's named Epiphany) with the Bishop celebrating.
I've scrapped in the past but doubt there will be pictures this weekend
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Post by grammadee on Jan 6, 2018 23:05:47 GMT
My dh's family celebrates Ukrainian Christmas Eve today. And NYE next Saturday. After that, the decorations will need to be all packed up and put away.
Sometimes we go out for supper to a local restaurant or meet up with his sister & family to play cards, but not this year. Tonight it will be just dh and I. He has asked for potato pancakes and salmon for supper (traditionally a meatless meal).
I have never scrapped it. The family has moved the complete Christmas Eve meal to the 24th. One year I will photograph each of the dishes and then do a page about the traditional foods. Not this year, though.
Merry Christmas and Happy Epiphony!
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Post by myboysnme on Jan 7, 2018 1:50:40 GMT
One year I will photograph each of the dishes and then do a page about the traditional foods. This would make a fabulous layout, especially as traditions evolve, change or go away.
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Post by DawnMcD on Jan 7, 2018 6:53:12 GMT
We o not do anything for epiphany but I almost always wait to take down my tree till after it.
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Post by moraie on Jan 7, 2018 8:18:14 GMT
We o not do anything for epiphany but I almost always wait to take down my tree till after it. LoL...it's a good year for me if my tree's put up before Valentine's Day. A few years ago my mom got tired of it, and she decorated a small tree for me (6' tall, about 2.5 feet wide). She found some beautiful plastic ornaments (you'd never know!), some glitter stars, etc., and she wired every single thing in place so it wouldn't budge. Basically, we just tossed a trash bag over it, carried it to the basement for storage, and then carried it up when we were ready the next year. Five minutes to get it out, five minutes to put it up. It was awesome until the lights burned out! I may beg her to reassemble it with new lights for next year. We don't do anything specific for Epiphany, but my ex is Russian. He got used to celebrating Christmas on the 25th, but still wanted a small celebration when he was used to it, even if it was just phone calls to his family and telling our kids about how the evening would have been for him as a child. He usually saved one gift for them, too. After we separated, he still wanted the kids for his Christmas, and we left the tree up until after they were done celebrating with their dad.
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