Showing posts with label advent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label advent. Show all posts

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Get German Christmas Treats & Gifts

If you live in the USA or Canada, you know the challenge: Getting German Christmas treats or gift online.

Here's a helpful link http://bit.ly/2fsIup2 to lots of German products, fan items, foods and more. Especially great if you're still looking for unique Christmas gifts or those yummy Advent calendars for your kids or grandchildren.

German Christmas Candy
German Christmas Candy

You can also get those famous German incense smokers, pyramids and candle arches.

German Christmas Incense Smoker
German Christmas Incense Smoker

Take a look around and enjoy!

For the ones among you who like something totally unique and different, check out their glassware section. You come across some unique, handmade German products. Here's just one example of the beautiful German crystal vase:

German Handmade Crystal Vase
German Handmade Crystal Vase




Sunday, November 1, 2015

German Christmas Advent Calendars - Why So Special?

Another typical German thing – the Christmas Advent Calendar!

The famous protestant reformer Martin Luther is initially to ‘blame’ for it. He made out of the strictly biblical holiday, a family-oriented Christmas. Therefore initially the ‘Advent calendar’ was just used as a counting aid for kids. This way, they could count down the 24 days from the 1st day of Advent until Christmas. It still didn’t look like the Advent Christmas calendar as we know it today. Mostly families ...read full post