A wise blogger would have remembered the outdated phone she uses as a camera these days when she went out, but tonight I was not that person. So, I’ll show you some of the holiday sights of D.C. another day.
I am absolutely a sucker for commercials that tug at the heartstrings, particularly near the holidays. I mean, I won’t necessarily buy your stuff (or, in fact, stop criticizing your company if you’re on my naughty list), but I’ll at least stop and pay attention to your commercial for 30 seconds.
You’ve probably seen the short version of this commercial from an online retailer. Watch the long version:
Kroger and Coca Cola both had similar thoughts this year:
I haven’t seen even an abridged version of this one from Chevy on tv, but it’s a tearjerker:
U.K. businesses are the best at Christmas commercials. Here are a couple of my favorites from this year.
John Lewis steps it up every year:
I really appreciate when a commercial is just in it for the holiday spirit and has nothing to do with what they actually sell, like this British clothing company:
And I’ll leave you with the National Trust’s Christmas shop for my knitters:
If you’re also a sucker for this kind of commercial, you can see a whole playlist of them from around the world here or just the U.K. ones. I might be inclined to set the playlists running while I was wrapping gifts, as something festive in the background, but not so distracting that I’d get sucked in for long periods of time.
Have you seen any Christmas commercials that you’ve loved so far this year?
1. One of my teammates brings me an ornament for our tree. “I picked it because its skirt reminded me of your Halloween costume.”
2. My brother and his partner were visiting my folks and so I got to talk to Josh, as well as my parents when I called on Wednesday.
3. I did a little Christmas shopping on the Hill this evening, and decided to talk home across town, since it was dry and warm. I passed the Eastern Market tree, the Congressional tree, and the White House tree (not as gaudy as many past years), as well as the ice skating at the sculpture garden.
How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?
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Rudi at Random Duck likes to balance my bonhomie-filled belief in the transformative power of Christmas with the power of laughter and parody (although it should be pointed out that the first dvd he picked for this season was The Holiday).
Today, he’s got a series of laugh-out-loud, skewering holiday skits and performances to start off your Thursday.
Thanks, hon!
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Today marks the end of the first week of December, which probably means that those of us who are hoping to get things mailed should start hopping to it.
In addition, it’s one of the Advent days I look forward to most in D.C. — the Washington Post‘s Food section releases their new Christmas cookie recipes for the year!
We grew up making Christmas cookies — and eating those family and friends made every year. Like most people, I have cookies I associate with the holidays, even if there’s nothing stopping me from making them any other time of the year. Peanut butter blossoms, for instance. And spritz cookies if you make them in non-Christmassy shapes. But in my brain they’re seasonal cookies.
Because most of our Christmas recipes are beloved hand-me-downs from family and dear friends, I don’t often add new recipes to the repertoire. But I love to peruse newspaper food sections and baking books and foodie blogs and bookmark recipes and imagine Someday and What If?
But this year, with no day job to get in my way and with pre-holiday plans few and far between, I’m thinking, Maybe This Year and What’s Stopping Me? After all, many of those beloved family recipes would have come from women’s magazines.
I’ve got cookie cutters I’ve never used and a bunch of decorations I bought in 2020 when the pandemic meant we did Christmas on our own for the first time ever. That year, I needed the traditional recipes. But this year, I’m thinking it’s time to add in some new things, as a metaphor for what I’m looking for in the other aspects of my life. There’s at least four pounds of sugar, five pounds of flour, and two pounds of butter in my kitchen.
I’m ready! (And I’ll share later in the Virtual Advent Tour if I find any winners!)
Do you have a favorite holiday recipe you make each December or a new one you’re excited to bust out this year? We’ve still got plenty of open dates that you could grab!
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Happy St. Nicholas Day! I hope you survived Krampusnacht unscathed and that you awoke this morning (or, come home later today) to find your shoes full of goodies.
Today, we get to do some touring! Raidergirl3 at an adventure in reading is the blogger who’s participated most in the Virtual Advent Tour, having joined in its inaugural year, back when Marg and Kailana were running it. That’s how we met, and I joined her on the tour the following December.
Today, she shares some Christmas memories with us, both from her personal life and of her Virtual Advent Tour posts through the years. I hope you check out both.
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