Celebrity Christmas

<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.zingerbugimages.com/" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" title="Click here to get MySpace comments, glitter graphics, funny photos and more cool stuff!"><img border="0" src="http://www.holidays.zingerbugimages.com/glitter_graphics/cat_in_christmas_tree.gif" /></a></div><a href="http://www.zingerbugimages.com/">Comments by ZingerBug.com</a>    I had to laugh when I saw this graphic. It reminded me of my cat we used to have who is no longer here. I was sitting at the dining room table eating and you can see the tree from the dining room. When I turned to look at the tree, I noticed Casey's tail swaying back and forth from the bottom of a tree branch. He was just sitting inside my tree looking out at me. I wasn't real happy with this and chased him out of the tree.  We laughed about it afterward, but hoped he wouldn't continue getting into the tree. I guess he thought he had a little of the outdoors in the house. One year my dog also thought he had a little of the outdoors inside since he used the tree as his own personal bathroom. Animals!

Cat in the tree

Comments by ZingerBug.com I had to laugh when I saw this graphic. It reminded me of my cat we used to have who is no longer here. I was ...

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Decorating the Tree

<a href="http://www.zingerbugimages.com/" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Click here to get MySpace comments, glitter graphics, funny photos and more cool stuff!"><img border="0" src="http://www.holidays.zingerbugimages.com/glitter_graphics/Christmas_Tree_with_sparkle_lights.gif" /></a> <a href="http://www.zingerbugimages.com/">Comments by ZingerBug.com</a>   It's almost that time of the year when we dig out the tree and make it beautiful with all of the ornaments that we have collected over the years. Some people put up many trees...God Bless them...I put up a large one and a pencil tree on my sunporch. I do love to decorate the tree, but I have found that as I get older, it gets to be a little more work. When my children were small, we would look for a real Christmas tree, ahhh, the fresh smell of pine, nothing like it at Christmas time. Sometimes there would even be small pinecones on the tree and the warmth from the lights on the tree would make the pine cones crackle.  It was fun...and cold...looking for the perfect tree, but something you will always remember.   We did the real trees for a long time and then decided to get an artificial tree. I've had at least four artificial trees. They started out large and then became smaller throughout the years...it must have something to do with the getting older thing! I used to string the lights on and now they are prelit and I must say I like the prelit trees. The lights are strung on nicely so that you can barely see the wire. My tradition is to have some wine while decorating the tree and listening to Christmas music. It usually takes me all day to finish the tree. Something I find very upsetting is when you get the tree up and plug it in.....guess what....half of the lights work and the other half don't. Nice. This happened after we had bought a tree at Pool City, had it up one Christmas and the following Christmas half of the lights were out. Tested the lights, couldn't find the problem, went to Pool City, took the receipt to show we had it only one year, and they gave us a bunch of replacement lights...with a plug only on one end. Nothing else they could do...nothing else...we paid $300.00 for this tree and that's the best you can do???? Well, I tried to put these lights on a prelit tree and it just wasn't getting it if you know what I mean, so I got really upset after arguing about it with my husband, took the tree apart, stuffed it back into the box, kicking it into the box, sort of like Chevy Chase did in Christmas Vacation, when he got upset because his lights weren't working and he started kicking Santa and the reindeer all over the front lawn...I can relate to that. Anyway, we took it to the nearest dumpster and bought another one. It seems like every year I have some sort of light problems to deal with....yikes....but after it's all done, the tree and the outside decorations, look beautiful. I will always decorate a tree for Christmas even when I'm much older, even if it's just a pencil tree or a tabletop tree. I'll never forget that Christmas magic. <a name='more'></a>

Decorating the Tree

Comments by ZingerBug. com It's almost that time of the year when we dig out the tree and make it beautiful with all of the ornament...

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Scrooge

Scrooge

There are many versions of A Christmas Carol/Scrooge and this is yet another from Walt Disney shown in 3-D...my favorite way to see a movie....

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Holiday Cookie Recipes

Holiday Cookie Recipes

Here are some cookie recipes for those of you who love to bake for the holidays.

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"SOUNDS OF CHRISTMAS by Del 'Abe' Jones

<a href="http://www.greetingspring.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="GreetingSpring.com" border="0" src="http://www.greetingspring.com/files/anims/00000000/43_lg_clr.gif" /></a> There's music of the holidays Playing on the radio - There's Christmas decorations Almost everywhere you go. The Salvation Army bells Ring out for the poor - The 'Ho,ho.' of Santa Claus In the department stores. Carolers sing Christmas songs - Going, house to house - Tales about, where no one stirs Not even, a mouse. Hoofbeats in fresh fallen snow Pulling, an open sleigh - Children asking Mom and Dad 'Is Santa on his way?' Cracklin' from the fireplace - Roasting chestnuts 'neath the coals - The soft murmur of prayers Said, for the lost souls. Friends and family gather To toast, Christmas cheer - There's sounds of angels singing (If, you really want to hear. The sounds of Christmas, fill the air As we celebrate His birth - Wishing joy, to all mankind And peace to all on earth."

"SOUNDS OF CHRISTMAS by Del 'Abe' Jones

There's music of the holidays Playing on the radio - There's Christmas decorations Almost everywhere you go. The Salvation Army be...

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Charlie Brown Christmas

Charlie Brown Christmas

Linus tells the true meaning of Christmas.

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Christmas Danger Game

Christmas Danger Game

Stay away from the food and collect all the presents that you can with the tree. After so many presents though, your tree grows bigger and i...

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Christmas Puzzle 3

Christmas Puzzle 3

Puzzle Game

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Christmas Memory Game

Christmas Memory Game

Have fun!

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Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies

This is such a magical song. I found the instrument he's using to play the song on, very interesting. Never knew such an instrument exis...

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Nat King Cole's The Christmas Song

Nat King Cole's The Christmas Song

Changing picture scenes with this music video. No one sings this better than Nat King Cole!

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Little Drummer Boy

Little Drummer Boy

One of my favorite childhood Christmas movies.

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Christmas Screensavers

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_16_11.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Webfetti.com" border="0" src="http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_16_11.gif" /></a> Something I love to do at Christmas is to decorate my computer with beautiful screensavers for the holidays. I look for the freebies most of the time, and there are a lot of them out there, some without adware, spyware, etc. which are the best, and some are wrapped with the stuff you really don't want on your computer! I love the animated ones with music. I have so many on my computer I could probably put a new one on each day for the whole month of December. I have a couple that are transparent snow which are really nice with a Christmas wallpaper under it. I used to have a program Snow for Windows, but lost that when my computer crashed. It had settings for how hard you wanted the snow to blow, and the snow would build up on windows, also settings for polar bears that walked across the screen, settings for Santa and his reindeer, and even for Rudolph and his shiny red nose. </div> <a name='more'></a>You can download a 10 day trial version at <a href="http://snow-for-windows.en.softonic.com/">http://snow-for-windows.en.softonic.com/</a> . It's for windows XP. I don't see anything about it being for windows vista, which is what I have now. Some other places for free screensavers are <a href="http://www.scenicreflections.com/">http://www.scenicreflections.com/</a>. There are some nice 3-D savers here. If you hover over the picture, if it's free, it will state it's free. Downloaded many nice ones here and am having no trouble with my computer. Another place I've downloaded nice screensavers were from <a href="http://freechristmasscreensavers.com/christmassavers.html">http://freechristmasscreensavers.com/christmassavers.html</a>. Also <a href="http://www.freeze.com/">http://www.freeze.com/</a>. It's probably a good idea to always read the terms of use policy. These places may put their cookies on your computer, but as I said, so far I haven't had any problems. Some places during the install may want to put a toolbar on your computer and I always uncheck that box. You just have to read everything during the install. If there is something you don't want on your computer, uncheck the box if that option is available, or just cancel the install, and always, always, always, before installing, scan the download with your antivirus, antispyware program, then you can enjoy the beautiful holiday screensavers. Themeshack <a href="http://www.themeshack.net/group_projects.htm">http://www.themeshack.net/group_projects.htm</a> is always a safe place to get screensavers, but not all of them are free. You just have to hunt for them.

Christmas Screensavers

Something I love to do at Christmas is to decorate my computer with beautiful screensavers for the holidays. I look for the freebies most of...

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Our Traditional Santa Facts

<div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.greetingspring.com/" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="GreetingSpring.com" border="0" src="http://www.greetingspring.com/files/anims/00000000/46_lg_clr.gif" /></a></div> Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle or simply "Santa" is generally depicted as a plump, jolly, white-bearded man wearing a red coat with white collar and cuffs, white-cuffed red trousers, and black leather belt and boots. One legend associated with Santa says that he lives in the far north, in a land of perpetual snow. The American version of Santa Claus says that he lives at his house in the North Pole. Santa lives with his wife Mrs. Claus, a countless number of magical elves, and eight or nine flying reindeer. Another legend of Santa says that he makes a list of children throughout the world, categorizing them according to their behavior ("naughty" or "nice") and that he delivers presents, including toys, candy, and other gifts to all of the good boys and girls in the world, and sometimes coal to the naughty children, on the single night of Christmas Eve. He accomplishes this feat with the aid of the elves who make the toys in the workshop and the reindeer who pull his sleigh. The tradition of Santa Claus entering dwellings through the chimney may reach back to the tale of Saint Nicholas tossing coins through a window, and, in a later version of the tale, tossing coins down a chimney when he finds the window locked. Rituals surrounding Santa Claus are performed throughout the world by children hoping to receive gifts from the mythical character. Some rituals (such as visiting a department store Santa) occur in the weeks and days before Christmas while others, such as preparing snacks for Santa, are specific to Christmas Eve. Some rituals, such as setting out stockings to be filled with gifts, are age-old traditions while others, such as NORAD'S tracking of Santa's sleigh through the night skies on Christmas Eve, are modern invention's. Writing letters to Santa Claus has been a Christmas tradition for children for many years. These letters normally contain a wishlist of toys and assertions of good behavior. Some people have created websites designed to allow children and other interested parties to "track" Santa Claus on Christmas Eve via radar; while in transit, Santa Claus is sometimes escorted by Canadian Air Force fighter jets. In the United States and Canada, children traditionally leave Santa a glass of milk and a plate of cookies. American children also leave a carrot for Santa's reindeer, and were traditionally told that if they are not good all year round, that they will receive a lump of coal in their stockings. OtherChristmas Eve Santa Claus rituals in the United States include reading Clement Clark Moore's A Visit from St. Nicholas or other tale about Santa Claus, watching a Santa program on television, and the singing of Santa Claus songs such as Santa Claus is 'Coming to Town, Here Comes Santa Claus, and Up on the Housetop. Last minute rituals for children before going to bed include aligning stockings at the mantlepiece or other place where Santa cannot fail to see them, peeking up the chimney (in homes with a fireplace), glancing out a window and scanning the heavens for Santa's sleigh, and (in homes without a fireplace), unlocking an exterior door so Santa can easily enter the house. Tags on gifts for children are sometimes signed by their parents, "From Santa Claus" before the gifts are laid beneath the tree. Santa Claus's home traditionally includes a residence and a workshop where he creates-often with the aid of elves or other supernatual beings-the gifts he delivers to good children at Christmas. Some stories and legends include a village, inhabited by his helpers, surrounding his home and shop. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus   <div class="zemanta-related"><h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0px 0px;">Related articles</h6><ul class="zemanta-article-ul"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://socyberty.com/holidays/santa-claus-2/">Santa Claus</a> (socyberty.com)</li></ul></div><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=7aa139e3-512c-4525-a761-0eabd7c9c45a" style="border: currentColor; float: right;" /></a></div>

Our Traditional Santa Facts

Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle or simply "Santa" is generally depicted as a plump, joll...

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