Archive for the 'Culture' Category

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Personalize Your Christmas Ecards

When you shop for traditional Christmas cards, most of them contain the same greeting. You can make your greeting personal when you send Christmas ecards.
Christmas ecards are fast overtaking the business of buying and sending traditional paper Christmas cards. When you shop for a card in a store, you find that the majority of them [...]

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

How to Become an Alaskan Resident

Ever thought of moving to Alaska? This thought crosses the minds of many Americans. After all it’s beautiful and one heck of an adventurous escape. If you are sick of your boss and traffic and smog the notion can seem very appealing. But it’s not as simple as just picking up and moving there. Before [...]

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Canadian and US Thanksgiving Traditions

Traditions of Thanksgiving in Canada
Like all the harvest festivals throughout history, the overt celebration of gratefulness of the Earth’s bounteousness is through a fabulous feast! Gathering up with the family for a day of enjoyment and fellowship is easier in Canada than in many other countries. While the official Thanksgiving Day is on Monday, Canadians [...]

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

The Christmas Stocking

History of the Christmas Stocking:
The tradition of the Christmas stocking seems to have originated in around the third century and involves the Bishop of Myra who became known as Saint Nicholas. The legend goes that there was a righteous and honorable man whose wife had died, leaving him to care for their three daughters. The [...]

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Historic Significance of Celtic Rosary

Jewelry is synonymous to women. It has been in use since times immemorial. In the olden days when man had no means of displaying fashion in a commercial sense, beads made of wood or stone were used as a fashion statement. With time, the use of jewelry transformed from a mere ‘every day use’ product [...]

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Claddagh Rings - History and Mystery

The history of Claddagh rings is somewhat limited in fact, but it is more fun to review the legends that have grown up around the appearance of this fine example of beautiful craftsmanship representing the themes of loyalty, love, friendship and romance. The mystery whether there was actually a prince who loved a commoner so [...]

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Christmas Gift Baskets for the Perfect Holiday Gift Baskets

Christmas festivities and traditions can be traced back to the story of nativity. It is celebrated as the birth of Christ Jesus in Bethlehem. Over the years, various Christmas traditions have accumulated and evolved. Back then, it was just a simple yuletide log, then the beautifully adorned Christmas tree, followed by the snowmen and winding [...]

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Holiday Gift Baskets: Gourmet or Sweets Gift Baskets

Giving holiday gift baskets is a great way of letting your relatives, friends, or neighbors have a sample of different varieties of goodies and sweets. A gift basket is a perfect gift idea if you do not have enough time to shop for individual items, wrap them in special paper, and post them with cards. [...]

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

How the Early Pilgrims Celebrated Thanksgiving

It is a basic notion that during the 1600’s, accurately in the year 1621, the English settlers and the Wampanoag Indians got together and shared a fantastic fall harvest feast to celebrate the bounty from the rich earth. Today this celebratory feast is acknowledged to be one of the first Thanksgiving festivities in the early [...]

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

The Advantages of Two Tone Jewelry - Two Tone Celtic Jewelry

The advantages of two tone Celtic jewelry
The traditional gold and diamond jewelry display their usual moods and are therefore much in demand today. Nonetheless, those who look for constant changes have a chance to take a pick from the elegant two tone gold jewelry collection. If we talk of two tone gold jewelry, then we [...]