Hope everyone is having fun. The winner of our contest this week is CookyIN. Congradulations.

Here are the answers to last weeks contest.

1) Who celebrates Christmas on January 7th?
Orthodox Churches in Russia, Serbia, Jerusalem, Ukraine, Ethiopia and othes. They follow the old Julian calendar

2) What is used to represent the Star of Bethlehem?
Candles

3) What do these traditional Christmas colors mean?
a) Green - Spring would come and that winter would not last forever
b) Red-Represents the blood of Jesus when he died on the cross
c) Gold - Color of Sun and light
d) White - purity and peace
e) Blue - Mary, the mother of Jesus

4) The poinsettia was made widely know because of....
a) Who - Joel Robert Poinsett
b) When - 1825

5) Wassail means?
Good health

Congrats CookyIN

What a nice surprise!

Congrats CookyIN. This is interesting Anoka. Lots of info.

My ornament is 1/4 finished. I will finish it tonight. It is really sweet.

I made a terrible mistake today... A package came in the mail for me and I thought it was probably some fabric I'd ordered from the destash groups on Facebook. It wasn't... A bunch of Christmassy looking pretties spilled out before I realized I had opened my Christmas Ornament package! Horrors! I quickly put it all back in the bag and stuck it away for opening day. I didn't recognize the name on the package. I'll try to forget what little I saw until opening day.

Maybe we should be writing "Ornament Swap, DO NOT OPEN" on the packages? Anyway, whoever sent to me... it's arrived! :o

the way I have to send mine I have written all over it do not open tell......

I've received my ornament in the post. It's going to be hard to hold off having to open it.
LindaC

I got mine in the mail yesterday too! How fun to have it here tempting me. LOL!

I will finish mine tonight and hopefully mail tomorrow. Have to go to Michael's to find that little thing that will make it extra special.