Hi everyone, Welcome to Day 11 of our 12 Days Of Christmas celebration!
Giveaway Update: Congratulations Judith Ames! You've won the Genniewren Highland Bundle and have been contacted by email.
Today we are giving away … a FANTASTIC 11 piece Highland outfit set to 1 lucky winner! These beautifully detailed outfits were handmade by Genine from Genniewren Designs as the prototype for her Highland Boy and Highland Girl pattern collections. This is such an amazing opportunity to add an authentic piece of Genniewren Designs to your doll collection!
Bonus Fun For Everyone! Today we are highlighting our Cultural Wear Pattern Collection at Pixie Faire. Simply add two patterns from this collection to your shopping cart, and enter discount code: DAY11BOGO in the discount box at checkout to get one of the patterns for FREE!
Note: This offer is for the Cultural Wear Collection only. This coupon code will be good for one day only - January 4th (12 AM-11:59 PM PST) and is available for one use per customer. Limit one free pattern. The least expensive item will be free.
Giveaway includes two complete outfits! handcrafted by Genine of Genniewren Designs. These outfits were the prototype pieces for her Highland pattern series. If you haven't checked these out yet - you really ought to! Genine has everything you need to create an entire Highland dance uniform for 18" boy and girl dolls!
- The Highland boy outfit featuring The Prince Charlie Jacket & Vest, Highland Dress Shirt, Red/Green Kilt, Socks, Ghillies, and Accessories
- The Highland girl outfit featuring The Girls Highland Vest, Highland Dance Blouse, Purple Plaid Kilt, Socks, and Ghillies
What cultural traditions do you or your family take part in? Some family traditions carry on through traditional baked goods or special meals, others could be activities, places to visit, or celebrations. We'd love to hear more about it!
To enter simply respond to this post by commenting below and complete this sentence:
“A favorite cultural tradition I take part in or find interesting is... A cultural pattern I would like to see offered at Pixie Faire would be...”
Comments must be left (on this blog post) by midnight (pacific), today, 1/4/2019.
One entry per person. No purchase necessary, void where prohibited. The winner will be chosen randomly from the comments received and contacted through the email provided in the comment. We will choose a winner and announce it tomorrow to let everyone know who won.
Happy New Year,
Cinnamon & The Liberty Jane / Pixie Faire Team
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My favorite cultural tradition is baking Christmas cookies and meal items from various European countries, as we have roots from all the British Isles, Scandinavia, and the European continent.
I would love to see patterns for an 18" doll series of outfits made for the PBS series of English “Downton Abbey” characters at Christmas, including the male and female servants along with the Crowley family household. Charles Dickens story character outfits would also be nice to have, or ones from other English literature like Jane Austen books.
A favorite cultural thing I practice is teaching my grandchildren how to make the same Germanic dishes, that my grandmother taught me to make. She learned them from her grandmother who came to America as a young girl with her family in the 1840s. Eating the same foods that my family has eaten for over seven generations is very special. I would love to set patterns to make that were of the outfits worn by the peasants in Prussia for every day, as well as when they dressed up for church of special occasion. A Prussian military uniform would also be great, from the era of Frederick the Great. I recently found out that my father has Scottish ancestors, that came to America soon after the Uprising in 1745. I would love today’s pattern to honor their efforts, and their courage to pick up the pieces of their lives and gel settle a new country.
A favorite cultural tradition is a good old American baseball game.
Would enjoy seeing baseball team uniforms and team logo outfits for dolls.
the Christmas tradition in the Basque Country is especially the arrival of the Olentzero, who is not a Santa Claus, but as the Basque legend says, he is the coalman who lives in the mountains where he makes charcoal . Once a year, just before Christmas, it goes through cities and villages to distribute to the poor logs so that no one suffers from the cold on Christmas Eve. Coal is a sign of a latent life and it symbolizes the sun that will start again. to warm up the earth in this winter solstice.The beret and the worn and dirty clothes remind that Olentzero lives and works in the forest, field of wild animals and Basajaun. The sickle is used to cut fagots. Like the sickle of the god Saturn, it is also the symbol of the mysterious cut of the solstice which cuts the year into two periods. A long time ago, before representing Olentzero by a man, it was enough to hang a sickle in the fireplace to threaten children liars or disobedient who did not want to go to bedThe wine bottle recalls the bad reputation of the coal. His drunkenness earned him to be beaten by his wife. This accessory is surprising when we know that the rituals of the end of year holidays traditionally concerned water.
The sack of coal (and not gifts) first evokes the importance of this fuel in the Pyrenees to ensure the operation of the many forges.
But, symbolically, coal is a sign of a latent life and it symbolizes the sun that will start heating the earth after winter.
He asks more questions than he finds answers. Like all of us, he is blind: he does not see the new world that is coming because he is sooty with the soot that the charcoal of our fears deposits. Since the dawn of time, men and women are confronted with the mystery of existence in the face of the Universe, which remains immense and silent. But without tiring, they advance, convinced that their quest brings them ever closer to the final knowledge and at the height of their doubt there is always someone, perhaps a sorcerer, maybe a scientist, more surely a child:
to hear the unspeakable,
to feel the infinite,
to touch the unfathomable,
to see the invisible,
to taste the mystery.
Olentzero is the certainty that the Sun will never go out.and all this while singing and dancing
I dream that Pixie one day realize the beautiful Basque costumes from different provinces
Happy New Year everyone
A FAVOURITE CULTURAL TRADITION I TAKE PART IN IS EASTERN CANADIAN COOKING AND STORIES. A CULTURAL PATTERN I WOULD LIKE TO SEE OFFERED AT PIXIE FAIRE IS REGIONAL CLOTHING STYLES RELATED TO THE HISTORY OF THE AREA.