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Not Your Typical Christmas Decorating Ideas 2007-12-01 09:59:00 If you are looking for some different decorating ideas this holiday season, you have come to the right place. Christmas
decorating can be casual, elegant, or a bit of both depending on the feel you wish to create, and these ideas can be adapted for any setting.
Icy Shimmer
On a mirrored tray, arrange white candles of different sizes, such as tea lights and various sizes of votive candles. Display them in cut glass or crystal candleholders. You can add taper candles with crystal candlesticks as well, but choose shorter taper candles rather than taller. Sprinkle rock salt around the bases of the candleholders to mimic ice. Sprinkle salt with silver glitter. For a more elegant effect, use glass beads instead of salt. Then, randomly add tiny painted pi Read more:Decorating
Bake Your Own Christmas Ornaments - A Craft The Whole Family Can Enjoy 2007-11-24 09:34:00 One of the most fun ways to create homemade Christmas
ornaments is by making them from dough. The ingredients for dough ornaments are very inexpensive, and this craft idea can provide hours of fun and entertainment for everyone in your home.
How to Make Dough for Ornaments
You wont’ want to use your favorite cookie dough recipe to make ornaments to hang on your tree, because the sugary concoctions are likely to attract bugs. The best recipe for making dough ornaments is a simple salt-based dough.
Ingredients:
2 cups of flour
1/2 cup of salt
3/4 cups of hot water
Instructions:
Place all ingredients in a bowl, mixing until completely combined. The finished product should be the consistency of cookie dough. If it is too thick, add more water. This recipe may be doubled, or increased even Read more:Whole
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Crafts To Re-Use Holiday Cards 2007-11-21 20:40:00 According to figures on the website of the Greeting Card Association, people in the United States buy over 2 billion Christmas cards a year. This article suggests three creative ways to reuse your share of holiday greeting cards after you’ve read and enjoyed them once.
Receiving Christmas cards can be a delight. But once you’ve smiled at the words inside, what do you do with the card? If you want to do more with your Christmas cards this year than line them up on the mantle or toss them in the trash, here are three ideas to create beautiful holiday decorations.
Create a Christmas card wreath: With only a little glue, you can make a wreath from your holiday cards, perfect for display on your door or fireplace. You might even lay the wreath on your table as a centerpiece. First, gather Read more:Cards
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Christmas Gift Bag Centerpieces 2007-11-14 16:21:00 This is an inexpensive and fun way to decorate for the holidays.
Find or re-use a small, holiday gift tote. This will be your container. Ideally, you would have a box just the right size to fit inside the bag. This would ensure the bag retained its shape and it could act as a "tabletop" so you could place your items on top of it. Otherwise, you can make your own support for the bag using a long strip of cardboard, taped at the ends so that it forms a square. Fill the empty space inside your cardboard square with crumpled tissue paper, packing paper, or even newspaper if that's all you have. Leave a few inches of space at the top.
Next, wrap a block of floral foam&# Read more:Christmas Gift
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Cool Christmas Sites 2007-11-05 16:07:00 I came across some pretty cool Christmas
sites I thought I'd share:
- home of the original letter from Santa. Yeah, you can write to Santa, but how many kids get a letter back? You can also get a deed giving you ownership for a piece of the North Pole or buy some unique gifts. They're actually located in Alaska.
- this site had some good suggestions for unique gifts for men, women, or kids. They're in Australia, but ship worldwide and promise fast delivery.
- good site to find collectibles, ornaments, and holiday decor.
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Christmas Trivia 2007-11-01 11:56:00 Written by Stephanie Hancock
The Barnum’s Animal Cracker and the box were introduced in 1902 by the National Biscuit Company. The box was designed with a string so that it could be hung on the tree as a Christmas
ornament—the box is still designed the same way today.
Robert May created Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer in 1939 for a Christmas promotion for the Chicago Montgomery Ward department store.
Coca-Cola Company began using Santa Claus to promote their product in the 1920s in an effort to promote the beverage as a winter beverage.
The man who developed the Christmas Poinsettia flower, Joel Poinsett, was the United States ’ first ambassador to Mexico .
The candy cane debuted in 1670 when a choirmaster gave them out to quiet noisy children.
Gene Autry recorded the so Read more:Trivia
Knitting Christmas Decorations and Stockings 2007-10-23 03:59:00 By Roz Andrews
Instead of buying boring baubles to trim your Christmas
tree, how about knitting some attractive Christmas decorations this year? Or, why not knit a unique Christmas stocking for each member of your family to hang up for many years to come?
These items can be knitted quickly and easily using fairly small quantities of yarn. There is no need to buy knitting patterns as there are many free patterns available on the Internet.
Christmas Decorations
Patterns for a wide range of different types of Christmas decorations are available, ranging from snowmen to lacy snowflakes, from festive bells to sparkling stars. Knitting
patterns for many different styles and types of Christmas decorations can be found free of charge on the Internet from such websites as Knitting on the Net.
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Make Your Own Christmas Crackers (Bon Bons) 2007-10-15 02:49:00 Christmas Bon Bons are a fun and traditional part of Christmas. Also known as Christmas Crackers
, they are brightly colored and decorated tubes with `snappers’ inside. When these are pulled they break apart with a loud `snap!’
Store bought bon bons with superior gifts inside can be very expensive, while the cheaper bons rarely have more than a paper hat and a plastic trinket. But you can easily make your own bon bons, and fill them with your own choice of trinkets and gifts.
Bon Bons are surprisingly easy to make. A few weeks before Christmas, start collecting the inner cardboard tubes from toilet paper and kitchen paper rolls. You can get packets of ready made `snappers’ from craft stores. You will also need some bright crepe paper in the colors of your choice, Christmas wr Read more:Christmas
Holiday Shoppers Waiting Until After Thanksgiving This Year 2007-10-09 15:24:00 "Christmas in October? No thanks, shoppers say"
Retailers are trying to jumpstart holiday sales, but survey finds that more consumers are prepared to wait until Thanksgiving
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By Parija B. Kavilanz, CNNMoney.com senior writer
October 9 2007: 9:01 AM EDT
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Retailers are slashing prices to try to jumpstart holiday sales, but many Americans plan to wait until after Thanksgiving to buy gifts, according to a new survey by market research firm NPD Group.
"I spotted the first holiday set-up in a store on August 18th this year - that's nearly a month earlier than last year," wrote NPD's chief retail analysts Marshal Cohen. "Retailers are looking to start the season earlier but consumers just aren't ready."
Wal-Mart (Charts, Fortune 500), the world's largest retailer, c Read more:Until
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Cool Christmas Sites You Should Check Out 2007-10-08 19:29:00 I came across a few sites related to Christmas
that I thought were pretty cool:
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Create and send nice, animated Christmas E-Cards for FREE
Find Christmas Recipes
Read a beautiful Christmas story
Play a game with Santa
Learn how the holiday is celebrated in the UK and US
Or Find gifts
2. - learn the origin of Santa Claus
3. - great resource for parents, teachers, or kids. Games, write to Santa, recipes, toys, & more
4. - just about everything related to Christmas is on this site including: decorating, gift ideas, articles, photos
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