On December 21st, Coriander and Vanilla found a beautiful little ceramic dish, paper strips to write wishes on and some matches. The idea is to write 13 wishes on the paper, folding them up and burning one wish in the dish each night between Christmas and 12th night. That leaves one wish, to unfold on the night of epiphany…the 12 wishes are sent out to the universe, and the 13th wish you attend to yourself. I hadn’t heard of this “Smoky Nights” tradition! (more…)