Twelfth Night 2014 - Luminaries

I made luminaries especially for Twelfth Night. You can make these beauties by simply freezing water in a Bundt pan. Add tea lights and you're good to go.

Twelfth Night 2014 - Gingerbread Cookies

We had a very low key Twelfth Night this year. Dinner was very simple but I did bake gingerbread cookies. Don't be too impressed. These were bought from the store as pre-made and frozen dough. All I did was pop 'em in the oven. Regardless of who made them they smelled great while baking. 

Christmas Season 2011 - Twelfth Night 2012

I did a little research online today and found out the following:

"Twelfth Night is a festival in some branches of Christianity marking the coming of the Epiphany and concluding the Twelve Days of Christmas."

"It is defined by the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary as 'the evening of the fifth of January, preceding Twelfth Day, the eve of the Epiphany, formerly the last day of the Christmas festivities and observed as a time of merrymaking.' However, there is currently some confusion as to which night is Twelfth Night: some count the night of Epiphany itself (sixth of January) to be Twelfth Night. One source of this confusion is the Medieval custom of starting each new day at sunset, so that Twelfth Night precedes Twelfth Day."

Well, tonight is the eve of January 6th so we'll follow the Medieval custom and call this Twelfth Night.

Dale and I celebrated with drinks, steaks and chocolate cake (and Downton Abbey too). It was all very lovely.