Holyday Traditions
Jan. 1st, 2009 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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darthanne about regional traditions and realised I forgot to post about one of my favourite Southwestern ones:
... Johannes and I both grew up calling these 'Luminario', but it seems like most people know them as 'Luminaria'. Either or?
The traditional way to do these is to get a brown paper bag, fold the top edges down, fill the bottom with sand or gravel and put in a votive or tea candle. I've also seen small bricks with holes carved in them for the candle. They're usually seen on Christmas Eve, but with the electric kind coming out in recent years (such as these), they're seen more commonly throughout December.
Albuquerque especially does massive displays.
The electric ones are cool too, cause then the candle doesn't blow out. ^__^
The original conversation came about because we were talking about the Southern tradition of eating black-eyed peas on New Years.
Any other New Years traditions people do?
darthanne about regional traditions and realised I forgot to post about one of my favourite Southwestern ones:... Johannes and I both grew up calling these 'Luminario', but it seems like most people know them as 'Luminaria'. Either or?
The traditional way to do these is to get a brown paper bag, fold the top edges down, fill the bottom with sand or gravel and put in a votive or tea candle. I've also seen small bricks with holes carved in them for the candle. They're usually seen on Christmas Eve, but with the electric kind coming out in recent years (such as these), they're seen more commonly throughout December.
Albuquerque especially does massive displays.
The electric ones are cool too, cause then the candle doesn't blow out. ^__^
The original conversation came about because we were talking about the Southern tradition of eating black-eyed peas on New Years.
Any other New Years traditions people do?
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Date: 2009-01-05 09:28 pm (UTC)I has clay. Will do one tomorrow. >DStarted doing it in my early teens, when I purchased a small plaster turtle and painted it on New Year's day. Mostly personal superstition though. ;) The new Year is as good an excuse as any to be creative, and I like to think this activity of mine will bode well for the year to come.
Dunno if my family has any specific traditions though.
Apart from a good lie-in!