poetry – French Ethereal

Twas the Night Before Christmas

When all through the house

Not a creature was stirring

Except Mom

who was up sneaking around

putting out presents galore…

The stockings were hung

by the chimney with care…

And, the children were all nestled,

all snug in their beds,

while visions of candy cones

danced in their heads…

***With apologies to Clement C. Moore

Merry Christmas to all

and

to all a goodnight!

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Random Thoughts at Christmas Time…

December 22, 2014June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

The side table in our dining room with our Hallmark Nativity ~ Love Divine

What could be more lovely
than Christmas time…

Not too much, in my book!
🙂
This past week I had been super busy making
Victorian Christmas candy cones
for students and coworkers at school,
and
wouldn’t you know…
I didn’t take one picture.

So…
Will create some more in a day or two to show
you how I figured out how to do it.
😉

For today,
I’d like to share some more of our home
dressed in its Christmas finery…

The angel hutch in the dining room…

A candy store, lights all ablaze on the tea cart…

Double wreaths greeting visitors on the front doors…

The garden angel watching

over everything…

Love all lovely
Love Divine
Love came down
at Christmastide.

Yesterday I posted the entire Christmas poem

Love Came Down at Christmas
by Christina Rossetti

and it is probably

my favorite posting yet!

Other lovely poems by Ms. Rossetti
are posted in this link here
(pink)

***

Do you have a favorite posting
for Christmas?

A poem, a favorite craft that you have made
for someone special?

Please won’t you tell about it here in the

Comments section?

I am still trying to figure out how to host a

linky-party.

If anyone knows of a good site out there that can describe

“how to make a link within a blogpost”

let me know!

😉

I want you to be able to share your homes and creations

with all of us!

Sugarplums are beginning to dance in my head,

so will sign off…

More posting later sharing our mantel and evening lights!

🙂

Feel free to repost this post and share with your friends!
Happy Holidays to you!

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At Christmastide

December 22, 2014June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

Christmastide
(also known as ~ Love Came Down at Christmas)

Source: The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, with a
Memoir and Notes by William Michael Rossetti (1904), page 159

Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas,
Star and Angels gave the sign.

Worship we the Godhead,
Love Incarnate, Love Divine;
Worship we our Jesus:
But wherewith for sacred sign?

Love shall be our token,
Love be yours and love be mine,
Love to God and all men,
Love for plea and gift and sign.

Before 1886

I had heard this poem before in a shortened version,
thus I used it in the titles of
these last four weeks’ Sunday blog postings.

In reality I have just found the poet,
Christina Rossetti…

Our Italian Nativity this year: though not seeing most of the figurines’ faces, making Baby Jesus’ the most relevant.

Ms. Rossetti wrote many poems about Advent, about Christmas
and Jesus’ birth…
I have just scratched the surface
for you and for me!

Do enjoy her works;

they point to our Saviour!

Please find many of her poem-carols at:
http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com

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Love All Lovely

December 1, 2014June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

Love all lovely…

I have been thinking about all that is lovely, all that is ethereal…
On our trip to visit family and friends
this week over Thanksgiving,
my longest-known best friend Janet,
her daughter Sara, and I
went Geo Caching out at a water reservoir
in Auburn, California.

Even with only being 1/3 full,
the water and surrounding countryside
were beautiful!
A family was there and their dog chased a ball
into the water
over and over, bounding out
with unbridled enthusiasm.
Here, he is resting between his trips into the lake
to retrieve his
beloved object…