tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6622051661892478283.post8334788298317668360..comments2023-06-18T16:13:47.701+01:00Comments on Sewing & Knitting for Sasha & Gregor & Others: Advent Day TwelveSerenatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08473750681150978115noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6622051661892478283.post-62243058643150884242013-12-14T06:20:42.934+00:002013-12-14T06:20:42.934+00:00Amber is very pretty and I love her sweet expressi...Amber is very pretty and I love her sweet expression! Her green dress is so festive!!!Gingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05448401674397732366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6622051661892478283.post-20849153973121721442013-12-12T20:42:59.859+00:002013-12-12T20:42:59.859+00:00Ooh dear Lorraine - I hope my children don't r...Ooh dear Lorraine - I hope my children don't read those interesting facts. I told them that chocolate advent calendars hadn't been invented when they were growing up in the 70s and early 80s! They seem to think they had a deprived childhood compared to their own offspring! <br />My yellow eyed Gotz girl is also named Amber - it always seemed just perfect for her.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03390622861084008186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6622051661892478283.post-41243283157046637502013-12-12T19:00:12.012+00:002013-12-12T19:00:12.012+00:00Thank you, I think Amber is very sweet as well. I...Thank you, I think Amber is very sweet as well. I too have very fond memories of the little pictures behind the doors, and always looked forward to that special tradition each Christmas. This is the first year I haven't had one. Feels a bit odd I must say, even if my printed picture one was recycled each year!Serenatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08473750681150978115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6622051661892478283.post-71349210494810880132013-12-12T18:58:52.802+00:002013-12-12T18:58:52.802+00:00This got me thinking Kendal when WAS the first Adv...This got me thinking Kendal when WAS the first Advent calendar? Looking on line the first hand made advent calendar dates way back in the 19th century in 1851. The first printed Advent Calendar, although without windows to open was published in 1908, and at the beginning of the 20th Century the first Advent Calendars with little doors to open were printed. Apparently the calendars were banned during the war and then printed again after the war in 1946 (Although I am not sure if this was in the UK, or Europe, it is not clear). The first one to have chocolates in was 1958! Here I was thinking chocolates in Advent Calendars was only recent in the last twenty years of so. Serenatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08473750681150978115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6622051661892478283.post-17039222401263906612013-12-12T18:23:54.248+00:002013-12-12T18:23:54.248+00:00Pleased to see that I was right and that we now ha...Pleased to see that I was right and that we now have some contents for the food basket. Glad then that yesterday's two girls joined Amber today and helped fill the empty basket with some vegetable foods.<br />We didn't have Advent calendars in my childhood days and only the little pictures behind the closed doors in my daughter's days. Now they usually have chocolates and sweets....plus extra special ones like this one here.Kendalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11055482039650447240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6622051661892478283.post-87530905123157915352013-12-12T11:54:00.301+00:002013-12-12T11:54:00.301+00:00What a sweet girl Amber is. I'm beginning to r...What a sweet girl Amber is. I'm beginning to really like these dolls as much as the Trendons. The advent calendar is the best I've ever seen for this kind of story blog. I still have fond memories of the little pictures behind the doors on the German ones my Great-Aunt used to have sent to me though. jenannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00321001863688006661noreply@blogger.com