DECK THE HOLIDAY'S

    In  Finland,  Christmas is celebrated from 24th to 26th of December. Preparations for the festival begin from approximately a month ago with many Finnish people buying  the Christmas tree ,  decorative items  and gifts and goodies for the season. Houses are cleaned and special treats like gingerbread cookies and  prune  tarts prepared for the oncoming festive season. In Finland, Santa might also be known as  Joulupukki!     The first Sunday in December (also called the First Advent) starts the Finnish Christmas season.  Christmas lights  begin to appear in the  stores  along with gifts, goods and goodies for the festival. Children count the days to the festival making their own Christmas  calendar  with some great  pictures  related to the Christmas theme or even some chocolate caramel.     In Finland the Christmas tree is set up on Christmas Eve.  Fir trees  are felled, tied onto sleds, and taken home to be decorated beautifully with candies, paper fl

    I have been seeing a great many Christmas articles lately and there is a question that should be answered at this time of year. What did the "Three Kings" see? A common Question to be sure and it does tickle the mind for Christians that believe something came to pass, that could not have been ordinary.     So where do we start on this small exposition? Let's start with the Kings. We know them as Kings however, they were not really "Kings", they were scientist priests, well versed in astrology and were most honored by the ruling class of that time and place. The word "king" was used by the Christian writer Tertullian in 120 A.D. when speaking of the priests as Magi. What made these men so important during the time of Christ's birth was their ability to interpret the celestial heavens, in particular, heralds.    Because the Magi found prognostic events within the night sky, the Hebrews of that time and place found this consti

( Dremel Video Tutorial)Engraved and Illuminated Ornaments  This is a big day for me! I'm excited (and nervous) to be presenting my  first ever VIDEO TUTORIAL !  Yes, a little movie! In it I'll show you how to engrave plastic ornaments so you end up with these amazing creations:   And then, once you have them engraved, you can actually LIGHT THEM UP and they get  even more amazing:  Yep, a dollar store plastic ball ornament,  a string of lights  and a  Dremel  tool are all you need! When Dremel asked me to create a project using their new    Dremel  Micro™ 8050 tool, which is geared for hobbies and crafts, I decided I wanted to spruce up some ornaments.   And this project doesn't have to be only Christmas oriented.  You could carve orange balls with jack-o-lantern faces for Halloween, or personalize them for a birthday or special occasion: So how did I do it? I originally wa