Winter

New Year’s Guide

by Seasonal Wisdom on December 26, 2011

Get your New Year’s off to a great start with these entertainment tips, along with fun historical facts and wonderful vintage cards from Riptheskull on Flickr.

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Vintage Christmas Cards of 20th Century

by Seasonal Wisdom on December 20, 2011

Take a tour of vintage Christmas card designs, and gather little-known Christmas trivia to impress your friends at holiday parties. Image courtesy of Have Yourself a Very Vintage Christmas.

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Five Feng Shui Ways To Create A Warm And Nurturing Home

December 9, 2011

Just in time for the holidays, you’ll find expert Feng Shui tips for creating a warm and nurturing home during this stressful month. This guest post is written by NYC-based consultant Ann Bingley Gallops of Open Spaces Feng Shui. Photo credit Ann Bingley Gallops. The holidays are here, right along with the start of cold weather [...]

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Seven Ways to Recycle Christmas Trees

December 27, 2010

A pine needle-infused bath is just one earth-friendly way to reuse your Christmas tree. About 13 million Christmas trees were cut and sold last year, according to the USDA‘s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Unfortunately, many ended up in the holiday trash. Here are eight better ways to reuse your Christmas tree after the holidays:

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Fun Facts About Christmas

December 23, 2010

Christmas has a rich history filled with lots of little-known facts. Consider these unusual facts … or these fun facts you might not know. . . Photo copyright richtpt at Flickr.

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Four Facts About Christmas You Probably Didn’t Know

December 22, 2010

Christmas may be one of America’s favorite holidays, but it’s rather surprising how little folks know about this day. Here are four strange facts about Christmas you probably didn’t know:

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Make a Toast to Wassail

January 4, 2010

Spices often used for wassail, including allspice, nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon. Image by Pod Chef at Flickr.com If there’s a drink that deserves a toast this holiday season – and all winter, really – it’s wassail. This steaming spiced concoction is often made with roasted apples; sugary spices; dark ale, wine, sherry or port; along with [...]

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Strange Facts about New Year’s Day

December 30, 2009

Happy New Year! Or, is it? The fact is it depends on who you ask and when…In much of the world, it took quite a while before Jan. 1 was actually considered the start of the year.

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Nest in Style this Winter Solstice

December 21, 2009

Photo by stevendepolo on Flickr Welcome winter solstice – the year’s longest night – in the Northern Hemisphere (exact Dec. 21, 2009 at 12:47 p.m. EST). From this point forward, the days will grow longer and the nights will shorten until the summer solstice in mid-June. Considering how cold and dark it can be at this [...]

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The Snow-Storm

December 10, 2009

With snow falling all over the nation this week, I couldn’t help think of a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It goes like this… “Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow; and driving o’er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight; the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river and the [...]

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