by Olga Brajnović | Dec 15, 2019 | challenges, photography
I’m late with my Christmas decorations at home this year. I probably will build a grotto scene starting today to have it finished next Sunday. I use to place the figures representing Virgin Mary St. Joseph and Baby Jesus, the shepherds, and the Magi into the...
by Olga Brajnović | Dec 1, 2019 | challenges, Family, Memories, photography
My Advent Crown, with a candle for each week of the season, ready at home For the ones who celebrate Christmas, today begins the Advent Calendar. It’s the time of preparation for the big feast of December 25th. When we were kids, we had an Advent Calendar,...
by Olga Brajnović | Jan 6, 2018 | daily prompt
In Spain is tradition that the Three Wise Men, whose feast day is today, are the ones who bring the christmas gifts to the kids. Last night the Three Wise Men riding camels and accompanied with a court of knights riding horses, heralds and pages, came through one of...
by Olga Brajnović | Nov 21, 2017 | daily prompt, Family, Memories
Now that my mom has passed away, her nest is empty. Her house, a meeting point for all of us, plenty of great remembrances, is now a sad and solitary place. The place where I used to go to find refuge and solace is gone. Soon it will begin the time of Advent and after...
by Olga Brajnović | Nov 9, 2017 | daily prompt, Family, Memories
Every Christmas eve, my dad used to build a grotto scene in the living room with little figurines of st Joseph, the Virgin Mary, the Baby Jesus and the shepherds, under the Christmas tree. He had a beautiful a valuable figurine of the angel who announced to the...
