No peeking until tomorrow!
{Doris Day in a publicity photo for Do Not Disturb | 1965}
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I hope you awoke to a small surprise in your shoe this morning left by St. Nicholas. ✨
{Image | St. Nikolaus (Print) | Elsa Schnell-Dittmann | F. A. Ackermanns Kunstverlag | Munich, Germany | 4 5/8 × 5 7/8 inches | Found HERE}
Hello, December! We’re ready for the frosty air that you bring that bites at our cheeks and the smell of woodsmoke circulating on the evening breeze. We’re ready for the streets to be lit by the glow of Christmas lights while we stroll with hot chocolates in hand to “ooooh” and “aaaah” at Christmas window displays and house bedecked for the festive period.
We’re ready for the arrival of the numerous sacred days to this most spectacular season and month. In particular Santa Lucia, for she brought light into the darkest of corners and so should we all follow her lead and ensure that we are the bearers of light wherever we may tread.
We’re ready for Christmas music to be spinning while we sit on the couch bathed in the warmth of the twinkling tree. We’re ready for our pace to slow as the sun goes to bed and to play endless games of scrabble or cards while sitting at the kitchen table where all the best conversations always happen.
We’re ready for the house to smell of gingerbread and peppermint and fresh pine. We’re ready to watch Christmas movies by the glow of candlelight and snack on buttery popcorn. We’re ready to simply drink in this season and all that it has to offer.
{Vogue, Christmas Photoshoot, 1956, photographer unknown, found HERE | Pinned HERE}
Wise men still seek him. ✨
{Bertha Boynton Lum (1869 – 1954), Color Woodblock Print, Three Wise Men, 1921 | More images of her work HERE | Pinned HERE}
Here we stand on the cusp of a New Year. So much has happened in these past 365 days and also so little. To say goodbye to one year and to greet the next is at times a bittersweet process. But we stand ready and waiting for what this next year has in store.
May this coming year hold beauty for us all. Wishing you love and light as we kiss this past year goodbye and open our arms in greeting to the new one about to dawn.
{Detail from 1956 Cadillac advertisement. Art by Jon Whitcomb Found HERE}
I cherish the pace of these in-between days. I treasure this time between Christmas and New Years. The time to be, when days seem to stretch out in front of you. These are precious days indeed, that do not come often.
We have enjoyed each other’s company, gone for long strolls, read, cobbled together sandwiches from leftovers, watched a plethora of old movies, listened to Christmas music, basked in the glow of the Christmas lights and have just generally been happy to be.
The days are moving a bit too quickly for me now, I’m nowhere near ready for our Christmas break to come to end. But, I’m taking pleasure from being in the moment and drinking in all it has to offer.
These days, these in-between days, hold so much and so little. These days, these heady days, hold so much magic in their offering.
{Image by Fritz Baumgarten // Pinned HERE}
🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄
May this season fill you with love and light. And may you be surrounded by family, friends, laughter and warmth today and always.
Warmest wishes to you all. x
{Rosemary Clooney, 1952 // Pinned HERE}
