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Karavaki - Christmas Boats

Greece has always been a seafaring nation, especially when you look at the islands.  The sailors worked hard and were at sea for long periods of time, while the women waited on the Greek islands for the return of their fathers, brothers, husbands and sons. The return of loved ones was a cause for celebration, and the women decorated small wooden boats that were placed in front of the door with a small lantern next to it. This was a special way of saying "welcome home" and that since medieval times.

A Karavaki (small boat) next to Christmas trees (x)

The decorating of boats spread throughout much of the country and became a custom during the holidays during the 17th and 18th centuries. The wooden boats were decorated with lights and ornaments and were placed near a door or fireplace with the bow of the Christmas boat facing inwards. This symbolised the successful journey to the mainland. Sometimes coins or gold objects were placed in the boat, symbolising the wealth of a household. Children also went door to door with these wooden boats, happily singing Greek Christmas carols. While they sang, neighbours would put small treats like sweets or candies in the boats.

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Barricade Day Advent Calendar

Day 30: Orestes Fasting

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The Thai Communal Wardrobe item #8

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Sixth Day of Gift-Giving

Six Sappy Sentences

"I missed you like I never missed anyone before."

"You’re so beautiful, it’s hard to directly look at you."

"I get so sappy when I’m around you."

"Feel this? My heart is excited to have you close to me."

"Can’t even concentrate with you around."

"I want to keep your hand in mine, so I can’t lose you."

Bonus 6:

"I never believed in love at first sight before I met you."

"You make me fall in love with you over and over again."

"I will never get over you. And I don't want to."

"Holding hands with you makes me feel so giddy."

"I feel completely safe when I'm with you."

"Seeing you smile makes it so hard not to kiss you right then and there."

24 Days of Gift-Giving

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❄❄ kp + text post advent calendar ❄❄

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The second door is ready and you my dear ones grab a tea because today the Cutty Sark welcomes you

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The Thai Communal Wardrobe item #4

Dark Blue Kiss ep 10:

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My little piece of Advent is here ^3^

Remussirion’s Kallisto eyes 4to2

— 29 colours — custom — color swatches here —  original creation is here

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WIP WEDNESDAY

In which Halbrand is a recently disgraced priest, Galadriel writes smutty romance novels, and they spend several days crossing the country by train to make it home in time for Christmas.

She makes him feel covetous. Sinful in his very existence. She makes him feel like the kind of man he'd been told he could never escape becoming - lecherous and lustful, falling easily to the wiles of the more dazzling sex.

And then he thinks he doesn't mind so much. If she is to be the proverbial stumbling block in his path, then he is already on his knees. Already, he has fallen below concerns of what is righteous and true. He looked at the thousand little sins of his life and thought, "So what?" and also, "What else?"

Because if he is going to turn aside - and he has, and he will, and maybe he will never stop looking at the choices before him and weighing the path of happiness corporeal against the path to happiness eternal and finding eternity wanting - he wants it to matter.

He'd left his pulpit under an avalanche of a thousand little lies, but now it seemed he needed something more. A declaration of intent on the road into darkness. If he intends to cast aside all he knew and all he once craved, to go in a blaze of glory seems fitting.

And she would be glorious, pinned beneath him with skin or ivory and hair of gold and lips like the bud of a rose. She would be worth the final nail in his coffin, a fitting footnote to a fall from grace.

The devil wears pastel and calls him darling in a voice that sounds like summer rain and makes temptation beguiling. No better than Adam, he'd lick the juice of the fruit from her skin, suckle the promises from her breast, join her in devastation until he forgot the face of God.