As all of you know I am not a Christian and I prefer the traditions associated with the celebration of the wheel of the year. A group of my friends share in my desire to honour the planet and her changes and in so doing we annually celebrate one of the oldest holidays in the world. Yule. Or the Winter Solstice. We exchange gifts in an international gift exchange and one (or two) nights a year we gather together on-line and take turns opening our treasures. We photograph our bounty and share it with one another.
While the postal service wasn't as rapid as my friend would have liked and my gift didn't arrive for the 21st, it did arrive today and I took some time alone to open it this evening. I was blessed to receive a handmade gift of jewelry. Those who know me IRL know that I LOVE my jewelry. Necklaces and earrings especially. Knowing these beads were carefully strung together with love by a womyn I love like a sister and that they were done especially for me means more than I can say.
I wanted all of you to be able to see what they look like and what they look like on me.
Now it has turned to the early hours of New Year's Eve. Tonight (many, many hours from now) we will head over to the home our my VERY dear friend, K, and her husband, L. We see them and our other friends every year for New Years. This year there is a chance that it will be a small group of only 5 families. That's okay. It hasn't been that intimate in a very long time. I love this group of people too.
What I know that I can honestly say, as we pass from one Gregorian year into another, is that I am more blessed in love of friends and family than I ever dreamed of being. My hope for all of you this coming year is that you know at least a fraction of the love that I know. Life is truly GREAT!!!
OH YEAH, and my most amazing dh in the WORLD got my the one thing that I really wanted. A CHI!! I now have a ceramic flat iron. YAY!!
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Major bead envy from here! Just beautiful. I ate all my M and Ms from my Yule gift last night.
Have a great Gregorian New Year!
We got Lysa one of those Chi straightening irons too. She is blessed with frizzy hair that needs to be firmly put in its place after each washing. I didn't realize there was anything special about it though - I just bought what my hairdresser recommended.
I don't know that there is anything special about it per se but it steams the hair instead of doing dry and so it doesn't burn or damage the hair. My SIL has a CHI so I knew it would work well for me as I was using hers every day she was here over the holidays.
I was just so happy to get one as I have wanted it for AGES but couldn't justify spending the $$ on it. There are days I like my curls but usually I like straight better.
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