To get in the holiday spirit, take your
Christmas Cruise on some of the links below.
May the spirit of
Christmas touch your heart and fill your home with love.
CHRISTMAS 
LINKS
Christmas
Decorating Ideas from Martha Stewart
Christmas.com
- Your Personal Christmas Experience!
Gifts in a Jar -
48 homemade gifts in a jar 
from food to
bathsalts - many great creative ides for gifts
Christmas
Decorating Ideas at HGTV.com
All
Things Christmas 
Eggnog
Recipes at AllRecipes.com
Christmas Carols Song Lyrics
Page-Merry Christmas from the Leal Family
Billy
Bear says... MERRY CHRISTMAS! 
This page is fun for kids!!!
Santa
Claus & Christmas at the
Northpole 
Christmas at Home
Mrs. Claus'
Kitchen at Northpole.com 
VistaPrint.com - UpLoad your photos
for Christmas Cards
Tracking Santa 
The
Internet Christmas Tree Directory
Home
and Family Network Christmas 
Amazing
Moms - Christmas Party Ideas, Crafts & Recipes
Santa
Claus at Claus.com
Welcome
to The NortPole 
Ideas
for a Creative Christmas
Christmas
Wreath Projects - About.com 
Christmasgifts.com
FoodNetWork.com
- Christmas Cookie Index 
Christmas
Games
Christmas Time
at Kaboose.com 
Boston
Ballet - Home of the Nutcracker
Santa
Claus' Christmas Home 
The
Disney Store 
Decorate a
Christmas Tree on-line!
Merry-Christmas.com
Puddings.net Christmas Recipes
ChristmasDepot.com
- Christmas Mega Store 
Christmas
Recipes 
Cookie
Recipe | Recipe Index: Christmas Cookies
Christmas-Cookies.com 
Links
to Christmas Food Sites
Christmas
Crafts at Craftbits.com
Christmas Games,
Holiday Parties, Gift Exchanges
Christmas-Carols.net
The Lyrics
Christmas
Stories at Kaboose.com 
Seussville.com
Christmas
Time Christmas Recipes 
Christmas Gift
Ideas - helping you find creative gift ideas
Coloring.com
- Online Coloring Pages and Coloring Books 
free to join, can print then color, or
color on line - fun and easy
Appetizers at
Better Homes and Gardens
FamilyFun.com
- Homemade Christmas - Gifts, Cards & Decorations
GREAT IDEAS
Christmas
Recipes Collections
It's a
Wonderful Life (1946 movie) 
I watch this every year
Christmas
Crafts at Kaboose Family Network 
An
Assortment of Christmas Crafts
About.com
- Christmas Crafts - Cookies in a Jar
Gifts
in a Jar at Christmas-Cookies.com 
Santa
- Favourite Christmas Food 
Christmas
Lights & Decorations 
Busy
Cooks - Christmas Cookies 
Homemade
Advent Calendars at The Crafty Crow
Christmas
Recipes Index - Southern U.S. Cuisine 
Christmas
Appetizer & Snack Recipes - CooksRecipes.com
Santa Suits and Christmas Costumes
Rachael
Ray's Christmas Collection of Recipes 
Christmas
Pudding from Bermuda
Chrismas
OrnamentShop.com - Personalized Christmas ornaments & gifts
Santa's
Ornament Shop
Christmas
Holidays - Tips, Ideas, Appetizers, Gifts - From Real Simple
Homemade
Christmas
Crafts
CHRISTMAS 
TRIVIA And GAMES
Bobbi's
Christmas Trivia ........Get in the Christmas Spirit, FUN, EASY - and yes we are kids at
heart
The
Charlie
Bown Christmas Quiz!!
The
Kidzpage.com - Free Christmas Puzzles - to do online - FUN
Christmas
Tree Puzzle I
couldn't do it
Winter
Activities for Children
Christmas
Trivia - Fun for the Whole Family
SUGAR COOKIES AND
CANDY CANES.
CAROLERS SINGING
DOWN THE LANE.
JACK FROST IS
NIPPING AT YOUR NOSE.
CHILDREN'S CHEEKS
THE COLOR OF ROSE.
BELLS IN CHURCH
SPIRES SING OUT THEIR SONG.
SANTA IS COMING
IT WILL NOT BE LONG.
WARM WISHES, GLAD
TIDINGS, GO HAND IN HAND.
THAT YULETIDE
FEELING EMBRACES THE LAND.
PACKAGES TIED UP
WITH RIBBONS...SO BRIGHT!
THE STAR OF
BETHLEHEM SHINES THROUGH THE NIGHT.
TREES ARE
DECORATED WITH ANGELS ON TOP.
EACH LITTLE CHILD
HOPES THEY'LL BE SANTA'S FIRST STOP.
STOCKINGS ARE
LINED UP...EACH WITH GREAT CARE.
KNOWING THAT
SOON, ST. NICK WILL BE HERE.
LITTLE TOY DRUMS,
DOLLS WITH CURLY RED HAIR.
TIME SPENT WITH
LOVED ONES THAT WE HOLD SO DEAR.
TIS THE SEASON OF
WELL WISHING AND MISTLETOE KISSING.
TO REACQUAINT
OURSELVES WITH THE ONES WE'VE BEEN MISSING.
SO, HERE IS OUR
CHRISTMAS WISH TO YOU.
MAY YOUR DAYS BE
FILLED WITH LOVE AND HAPPINESS TOO!
- And
Christmas
too does ask of us,
- To
raise our
eyes to higher spheres,..
- Believe
the best in life and man,.
- Embrace
new hope, release our fears.
- - Richard
Paul Evans
-
-
......All things are
Christmas waves a magic
wand over this world, and
behold, everything is softer and more
beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peal
1. Fill your
car with Christmas scent.
2. Call a childhood friend
whom you haven't talked to in a long while.
3. Take out an old photo
album and look through it with your family.
4. Wear red to bed.
5. Brew something wonderful
- spiced tea or mulled cider with cloves-to drink while you wrap
presents.
6. Send a video "greeting
card" to a friend or relative - they're fun to make and a refreshing
pleasure to receive.
7. Give a gift of time or
money to charity.
8. Answer the phone "Merry
Christmas."
9. Christmas
Stockings - parents get sentimental about trinkets that their children
leave behind as they grow up (old scout pins, charms from necklaces
and bracelets, favorite shells and pebbles, and other memory-making little toys and baubles are hard to
part with. Instead of tossing these items, use them to dress
up Christmas stockings. Stitch, pin, or tie these treasures to
the top, edge, body of the stocking and
you'll
have a family keepsake to cherish and one they can treasure and pass
on to their children.
10. Bring out that favorite
glass punch bowl you save for only special occasions. Fill it
with cloved oranges, holly leaves, lady
apples and cinnamonsticks for a refreshing sent. Or fill with
glass ornaments and frilly fancy tree garland with pine boughs.
11. Have an old sled in the
shed/attic - if not hunt one down at a garage sale. Then decorate it
with garlands of balsam or holly (the entire length of the sled), add a
strand of white lights placed on top of the boughs. Add a broad christmas ribbon at the top.
Pinecones can also be added. This sled adds a festive touch to
any room when placed in a corner or leaned against a wall (make sure
you plug in the lights).
12.Want to dressup a
fireplace mantel, side table or piano for the holidays, photocopy a
selection of your favorite hymns or carols from books you can find
at the public library (the more elaborately designed the pages, the better). Place them in
small gold (fancy edged) frames. Place about four side by side with
some
greenery and pine cones set in front of them. Add some nice gold
ball
ornaments in the greenery as well.
13. Tired of finding
a way to display your Christmas Cards - make a beautiful display
case by simply hinging together two to four louvered wooden
shutters (you can paint a festive color if desired). Then just slip the
cards in the slots. The rack can stand in any room, or buy small
shutters to set on a table.
14. Have a sunny window.
Place an assortment of vinegar, wine and perfume bottles filled with
green and red colored water (use food coloring). This gives a
festive stained-glass effect.
15. Drape a beautiful
piece of fabric over a cake stand, then arrange cookies on top.
1. Low on ornaments, fill
tree with candy canes, ribbons, paper doilies, gift-wrapped tiny boxes,
cinnamon sticks, tiny stuffed animals, miniature toys.
2. Popcorn and cranberry
strings - use fishing line to string.
3. Tie ornaments on with
red and/or green ribbons.
4. No tree topper, use a
doll dressed in her best clothes, a small teddy bear, a big
shiny bow, a bouquet of dried flowers (keep away from lights).
5. Don't have a tree skirt
- disguise the bottom with a pretty tablecloth, a lace curtain or some
nonpoisonous potted plants.
6. Try putting on several
strings of lights, each a different color. That way you
can unplug strands at different times and make the tree all red, yellow, white, or a rainbow of colors.
7. To prevent the Christmas
tree from slipping in its stand, cut a piece of rubberized shelf liner
to fit in the bottom.
8. Buy
a bright red or green sheet to use as a tree skirt. When the
holidays are over, lay the tree on the sheet and carry it
outside.
Shake out the needles and wash the sheet for next year.
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