Holidays Blog and Journals

the holidays are finally over.. time to put away the wrapping paper & bring out your sparklers.. another new year is right around the corner.. my plans are still up in the air.. i usually don't make plans till the day of.. seems easier that way.. christmas was a hit..

spend it in atlantic city, with my family & friends.

MY MOST PRECIOUS GIFT OF ALL!!!!

christian louboutin; how dreamyy are they..

next week i am back to business.. i took the past few days off from everything to get a bit of relaxation & to enjoy some family time. i am ready to get my life in order & get everything organized for the new year. time for fresh beginnings, i can't see what this year has to offer..

what was your favorite gift you received?

have you made your new years resolution yet?

This is a series

of great holiday hiakus

ya, buzznet, pour vous

they wont be that good.

dearest buzzneters

i wish you good tidingings

in this joyous time

but let's cut the crap

hope you got what you wanted

and gave what you had

holiday tidings

include music project thanks

a good holiday?

thanks for following

and reading all of our posts

you folks mean a lot

my fence broke last night

and so did the candy cane

here's wishing you a

HAPPY HOLIDAy

FROM THE MUSIC PROJECT!

andother session in january YAY soon we are recording!

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Well, im Israel we don't celebrate Christmas, we celebrate Hanuka.
But this year I'm gonna celebrate Christmas like I should!
Last year I had only a littel  tree, and thet's all.
My family don't wanna celebrate this year and I can't feel the Christmas spirit!

My mom don't wanna buy me some present, so I'm gonna do Christmas-shopping for me:)
And I'll put my tree in my home and I'll remake the Christmas spirit!

I had some photosoots for Christmas and I discovered thet I'm gonna do a video-report on Vans's new shop in IL,
about NOX shop and more.
I'll post it on my Buzznet and youtube and, of course on the website.

Honestly I don't know how to celebrate Christmas!
I'de never eat a special dinner, or did something for Christmas, I just love the spirit and everything was magical.
It's soundes stupid, but for somebody who lives in Israel, and nobody here celebrate it.. It's weird. It's so cool.
Every Israeli kide want to celebrate Christmas.. and get some presents. Only in B-day we get presents.
 

Well, I wish you a Merry Christmas cuz' you know how to celebrate ! 

Have fun, and take care.

Xoxo,

Guess I won't be having Christmas dinner outside on the deck :) I hope that all of you who are living on the East Coast were able to finish your holiday shopping before this blizzard hit!

What presents did you ask for this year? Did you find a particularly cool gift for a friend or loved one? I have just a couple gifts left to buy so drop me a line and give me some ideas :) Hopefully the roads will be safer in the coming days!

Wishing you the very best this holiday season! -Mason

P.S. If you are reading this on a website other than our Wordpress page, please visit atris.wordpress.com. I have made several posts there recently that I haven't had a chance to publish elsewhere. Hope you enjoy them!

...WOW another journal within the space of 24 hours? me?! craziness, i know.

Well, basicallyyy ..... yesterday, i did nothing .... well, nothing active anyways. I sat at my computer singing badly to Alice In Chains' new album (which is just awesome btw!) and editing photos for mes amis fantastiques on da Buzznetz ;P ....which was fun,so im gonna do it more :D:D .

To keep myself occupied over the holiday period, i have decided that every day (from today until Saturday Jan. 2nd) i will be posting a journal, or just a photo entry, telling everyone what's going on with me. Each day i will have a new 'Song Of The Moment'and i will take a photo relating to the title of that song :D sounds fun ?? me thinks so .....

SOOO that is my plan, and this day's song iiiiiiissssss .......... Black Gives Way To Blue by Alice In Chains (Y) .

I will be posting the related image later onn =] .

I will update sooooon again ;], but for now, adios amigos !

<3 .

So here are some holiday outfits i put together through polyvore.So we all know Christmas and New Years are around the corner,how are you dressing up?What do you wish to see in 2010 fashion?Have any new years resolutions yet?Going for a new look for 2010?

Let me know!tell me what you think!

i love love love the 3rd outfit but I'd most likely wear the first one !

I would have to say dressing up your best is the first step to the new year!

which one do you like or loathe?

i personally love the flapper inspired one i put together but i still like the others!:D

kittylove and cupcakes,

Rose<3

P.S.

I think my new year's resolution would be,new haircut,new hair color and finally take more fashion risks!I'm still not sure what it is,I feel pressured.hehe

It’s that time of year again. Yes, that time that comes once a year, every year: the “Holiday Season”. And with the holiday season comes a certain number of annual battles. There’s the “religious displays on public property” struggle. There is also the eternal “to have or not have Christmas in schools” fracas. But what I’m going to talk about is the smaller but far more common skirmish known as the “happy holidays” blitz.

Yes, the ever present scuffle over what the proper greeting to share during this winter season is. The common nondenominational standard is “happy holidays” and that’s a fine choice. It can cover anything you’ll be celebrating this season that is a holiday and that’s the extreme majority of people. Its only real opponents are the militant “merry Christmas” crusaders who want to force their reason for this season as THE reason for the season: Jesus. It is a good thing to note that the solstice is the actual reason for the season. The winter solstice is when the Earth’s axis is tilted the farthest from the sun as it can get and the days become longer, the nights shorter and the possibility of not freezing and starving to death began to look more realistic to struggling communities that lived before heating and grocery stores came into existence. For all of you who think that the winter solstice is actually a pagan celebration you might be surprised to find out that Yule is the pagan celebration that was adopted by Christians in Europe in order to pull in more converts. So for those militant “Merry Christmas”ers who revel in the Yuletide spirit… you’re the proud participants in an ancient pagan holiday! Congratulations.

The interesting thing about the Christmas Army is that they insist that everyone wish them a merry Christmas. Let’s look at that for a moment. The fact that it should be “merry Christmas” no matter who is being addressed means that they are specifically wishing their holiday on others. That’s fine as a proper Christian really can’t endorse Chanukah, a day remembering a military victory over non-Jews who wished to impart their beliefs on the Jews. A Jew can’t really endorse Christ’s Mass, a celebration of (to Jews) the birth of a man who ended up espousing the end to Judaic law. So wishing your own holiday to others is fine…

As long as you’re prepared to be wished other people’s holidays on yourself. For example, as a (cultural) Jew if someone wishes me a merry Christmas I have a number of logical responses to give:

• Happy holidays. The standard and probably the safest.

• Season’s greetings. Remember that one?

• Happy Chanukah. This, while completely appropriate and a response in kind, has the ability to make the other person feel awkward. It is confrontational to the extent that within the holiday wish is the fact that they just wished a Jew a merry Christmas.

• Happy solstice. Solstice is an astronomical event that occurs at some moment during the 21^st of December, no pagan beliefs necessary or implied.

• Thank you. Not rude in any way though it will probably get you some odd looks.

• Thanks, but no thank you. At first the above might seem rude and even more confrontational than the previously mentioned “Happy Chanukah” but in any other social situation this would be completely acceptable and even polite. Offered a food item you do not eat? Handed a flier that you’re not interested in? Any offer that you would like to politely turn down can use this response so why would someone else’s religious celebration be any different?

While I am thankfully not in retail my wife is and has already experienced the wrath of at least two customers who are crusading for Christmas. These people are rude, usually mean spirited and at least tacitly bigoted. While I won’t get into what Christianity would think of these traits it is moderately safe to say that none of them are part of the joyous and loving Christmas spirit these people are trying to shovel down other people’s throats.

I know that a lot of people, some of my friends included, think this whole thing is dumb and that Christmas is pretty much an American holiday at this point. If find that the vast majority of people who feel this way come from a Christian background. It doesn’t really matter if they are practicing or not, they still come from the comfort of a majority. Being part of a minority (or even coming from one minority to another, as is my case) gives one a completely different perspective. Christmas is not a comforting family event for me. When the decorations with Santa were put up in schools and the town Christmas tree went up at the municipal center, near the courthouse, police station and library, it was a reminder of being different (which is fine) and no one recognizing or respecting that (which is not fine).

For people with Christian families, whether they are Christians themselves or not, the holiday of Christmas represents something completely different than what it does to me. They see it as a fun, festive time of year. I see it as the continued implicit acceptance of Christianity by American culture and local governments. And while in practice Christmas unfortunately has developed “secular American” aspects it remains, at its core, a religious celebration for a religion I’m not a part of for a god I don’t agree with.

So I ask all of you out there to remember the real reason for the season: the Earth’s axial tilt in relation to the sun is at its farthest. Historically mid-winter was a freighting time when food supplies could run low, there was less daylight and therefore less usable time in the day, the cold was at its worst and survival could become a terrifying day-to-day issue. The “reason for the season” was that solstice was the turning point. There’s a reason that Yule, Christmas and Chanukah all rely on lights and fires in their celebration; because they represented survival, hope and more hospitable seasons. Families would gather not to rejoice but for warmth and because who knew if they would survive to see each other again. Then the solstice would come and the winter would ebb. Days would become longer and it really did turn into a season of hope. To me, that seems like more than enough reason to celebrate.

For my money I now prefer some variation on “ solstice”, be it happy, joyous, safe or warm.

“Season’s greetings” also properly captures this concept; by definition the season is the reason for the season.

“Happy holidays” comes in as a third choice for me, being very safe but also works on the assumption (however safe it may seem to be) that there’s a holiday at the core of their celebration. Personally, there’s no god at the core of my holiday gatherings and festivity. There are, however, friends and fun.

So with that I wish all of you readers a safe and joyous solstice. That’s a sentiment I can get behind.

Put away the knitted christmas sweater & bring on the mini dresses, textured tights, and santa hat. There is nothing I love more than mixing textures—stripes with polkadots, lace with velvet, sequins with jersey, etc—the perfect time to get crazy with this is during the holidays! Holiday dressing should be  f u n ! It's the perfect time to experiment with layering because its so darn cold outside (=[!!), and while you're layering, why not over-accessorize as well? Have fun with your style and be over the top, that's how I get in the holiday spirit! (but then again, that's just me 24/7)

'TIS THE SEASON...TO STEAL ORNAMENTS FROM YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE & WEAR THEM IN YOUR HAIR. 'Tis the season...to play with your little sister's toys before you wrap them. 'Tis the season... to wear your winter's best, indulge on champagne and desserts, & still look damn good.

The sparkle & shine look is very in this season. Sequins and Glitter doesn't just have to be for New Year's Eve. And even if you're not a fan of all that sheen and shine, opt for something equally as cute such as a bright lace party dress paired with a faux leather jacket; long sleeve velvet crop dress paired with thigh high boots; vintage blazer paired with a taffeta mini—the list goes on and on!

The Holidays aren't THE HOLIDAYS in my world without some Christmas color. When in doubt, wear RED. It's a color that looks great on nearly everybody, and instead of doing the big no-no by pairing your reds with greens, throw in some neutrals such as a textured beige cotton blazer.—and don't forget the tights!

As for the perfect Holiday hair? I'm a big fan of the braid lately. It works in so many ways & although some styles are a little tricky, they never fail to look effortless and chic with whatever you're wearing.

Let's take a peek at some of my favorite Holiday Looks...

HOLIDAY LOOK #1

velvet bow back tunic $60 @ topshop.com, dolce vita over the knee boot $178 @ urbanoutfitters.com, dkny knit tights $22 @ barenecessities.com, tartan bow $15 @ velvetvillage.com, gold stud belt $145 @ boutiquetoyou.com, gold bangle set $7.50 @ charlotterusse.com, sequin clutch $58 @ armaniexchange.com

HOLIDAY LOOK #2

sequin mermaid one-shoulder dress $76 @ asos.com, jeffrey campbell "charo" shoe $114 @ nordstroms.com, betsey johnson clutch $98 @ betseyjohnson.com, glitter bow barrettes $5 @ tillys.com, jumbo cocktail rings set of 6 $22 @ fredflare.com

HOLIDAY LOOK #3

micro mini interlude dress $118 @ edressme.com, sateen blazer $59 @ ardenb.com, glitter pump $25 @ wetseal.com, holiday headwrap $22 @ marialiaxo.com, india bangle set $70 @ couturecandy.com

I love all three of these looks! Perfect for handfuls of Holiday and Christmas parties, and I'm kind of feeling the middle one for New Years!

WHICH LOOK IS YOUR FAVORITE/LEAST FAV? WHAT WILL YOU BE WEARING THIS HOLIDAY?

COMMENT BELOW & LET ME KNOW!

arrivederci e buone feste!

xo

marialia

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