Focus on Christmas with Carla Capshaw

Please welcome Carla Capshaw to my blog today to talk about Christmas. I am loving hearing about others memories and traditions. (The pickle story has me intrigued). Thanks Carla for stopping by. Carla will be popping in today so if you would like to leave her a message I am sure she would appreciate it. Maybe post one of your Christmas Traditions.

1. Firstly thanks for coming back to my blog as we are focus on christmas.

What do you most associate with Christmas where you live?

***White sand?  Nah, just kidding.  Jesus is what I most associate with

Christmas.  He is the reason why the Christmas season is my favorite time

of year.  I mean, what other time of the year can you walk down the mall

and hear celebrations and praise to the Lord?

2. Do you have any special family traditions you do at Christmas time?

***Well, I go a little crazy at Christmas so we do just about every>

tradition there is.  :-)  When my son was younger, I wanted to introduce

him to Christmas traditions from around the world.  So, we have Christmas

crackers from the UK, nativities from Italy and we do a rendition of the

pickle ornament search from Germany to name a few.

(Jenny Here we call the crackers bonbons but didn't know they were from England)

3. Do you have a favourite christmas Carol and if so do you know why?

***O Holy Night.  It's just beautiful and sums up the whole special time

to me. My favorite version is sung by Michael Crawford.

(Jenny again love Michael Crawfords singing too)

4. If you could spend Christmas anyway you could how would you

celebrate?

***I'm so blessed because our celebration at home is exactly how I love it

and would want to spend Christmas every year.  On Christmas Eve we go to

church for a candlelighting service and carols.  Then all my siblings and

their families, my son and I meet at our parents' house.  We have a huge

party where everybody gets all their favorite treats, we open our

presents from each other and the kids search for the German pickle

ornaments in an elaborate "pickle" hunt that takes them all over house and

yard.  They each have to find their own pickle, but the first one done is

declared the "pickle" winner for the year.  On Christmas morning, we have

a more intimate time with our individual families, open more presents and

have homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast.  In the afternoon, we all meet

up again and have Christmas dinner together.  After dinner, we all do

whatever we want.  The kids play with their new toys, we watch Christmas

movies and round everything off with our favorite dessert.

5. Do you have any Christmas movies or Christmas books you like to see

or read each year?

***My favorite is A Christmas Carol. I love the movie version with Patrick

Stewart as Scrooge the best.  I watch it every year in the first week or

so of December.  It really kicks off the season for me.  :-)  I love A

Christmas Carol so much that when I get done with my current book, The

Champion, I'm going to start a new trilogy based (very) loosely on it in

the new year.

6. Do you have a Christmas message for my readers?

I wish each of you peace, love, joy and the happiest of hearts filled with

the love of Jesus.

Happy reading and Merry Christmas!

Carla Capshaw
www.carlacapshaw.com


These three books of Carla's would make great christmas gifts.

Danger and intrigue follow Elise Cooper wherever she goes. Surviving on her wits and her faith, Elise, code named the Fox, is the most elusive patriot spy in South Carolina.  When a double agent threatens to turn Elise over to the British, she fights for her life and makes a narrow escape...

But when Drake Amberly, fifth duke of Hawk Haven, learns of his brother's death and the failed investigation to find the spy who shot him, he heads for America determined to see the murderous brigand brought to justice.  Once in Charles Town, he follows the Fox's trail to Brixton Hall Plantation where he meets Elise Cooper.  As Drake tracks the Fox, he and Elise fall deeply in love. Once they wed, everything seems idyllic, until a trap he sets for the Fox exposes his beloved as his sworn enemy, forcing him to choose between his quest for vengeance or the traitorous wife whose love and faith may prove to be his downfall or The Duke's Redemption. 

Set in ancient Rome, Caros Viriathos is an ex-gladiator who has everything except inner peace. When he buys Christian slave girl, Pelonia, on a whim, he never expects her or her faith to turn his life upside down and win his heart.

Rome, 81 AD - Former merchant turned slave and gladiator trainee, Quintus Ambustus will do almost anything to earn his freedom. Enslaved for his faith in Christ, he hopes someday to find a Christian woman to marry and share his life. A friend of Quintus's master, Adiona Leonia is one of wealthiest, most beautiful women in Rome. She has good reason to despise men and has vowed never to wed. Although each of them is attracted to the other, they're determined to fight their feelings. But when an attacker threatens Adiona's life and Quintus is made her protector, neither can resist their fascination for the other. As Adiona learns to trust, first Quintus, and then his God, Quintus learns the Lord's gifts sometimes come in the most unexpected packages and in ways he never dreamed possible.