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Christmas - Planning A Christmas Bazaar
One of the most wonderful times of the year is Christmas and one of the most exciting events of the Christmas season is the church bazaar. Everyone looks forward to this event as it brings people together and gives us the chance to see folks we haven't seen in a while. But planning a Christmas bazaar is a lot of work. If you're planning on doing one, here are just a few of the things that you're going to want to do.
The first thing you're going to want to do is pick a date and make sure the church is available for that date. The last thing you want is for the minister to tell you that he's got a wedding planned for that day. Saturdays before the Sunday service are usually the best time. You want the date to be close to Christmas but not too close. The first or second week of the month is best.
The next thing you need to do is put out a sign up sheet to see who is going to be setting up tables. This is your main attraction at the bazaar so you want to make sure there are plenty of tables and a good variety of things to sell. You might want to also set up some specialty tables as well, like maybe one to take photos or maybe a table to print out cards showing what happened on your birthday. You'll need a computer and a special program for that. These things usually go over very well and are great money makers.
You'll also want to make sure that you plan to have a lunch setup. Keep the menus simple and the prices fair. People love to eat in between shopping but they don't want to pay a fortune for it either. Have a few different kinds of desserts and drinks available like soda, coffee and tea.
One of the biggest sellers at a Christmas bazaar is the bake shop. This is a lot of work but it is worth it. Have as many people as possible bake cookies and cakes the day before and bring them down to the church to have them bagged and weighed. You want to sell things by the pound. Keep your prices fair and you'll make out very well. Depending on how much is baked, you could make 0 or more just from the bake shop alone.
Finally, you want to make sure that everything is set up the day before. The bazaar should start around 9 or 10 in the morning and it should run until about 3 or 4 in the afternoon. Make sure you have a Santa there to take photos with the kids. You don't have to hire one specially. You can recruit one of the church members who fits the costume to fill the part. You're certain to get at least one volunteer.
By keeping a checklist and making sure that everything on it is done, your bazaar is certain to come off without too many hitches.
Christmas - Planning A Christmas Bazaar
Maroon 5 - Daylight (Playing for Change)
Tube. Duration : 3.93 Mins.
Maroon 5 - Daylight (Playing for Change)
The Daylight (Playing For Change) video is part of the Playing For Change music project series which brings together musicians from around the world. All profits go to their non profit foundation which builds music schools for children around the world. All PFC performers where recorded and filmed live outside and this musical journey takes us from the streets to the stage to the hearts of the people. Playing For Change is a movement uniting people everywhere through music. Music video by Maroon 5 performing Daylight Play for Change. (C) 2012 A&M/Octone Records
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Christmas - Santa's Secret Christmas Eve World Peace Tradition!
Santa has a traditional Christmas eve tradition which many families around the world join in each year. They are known as 'The Seven Secret Sacred Blessings and Wishes for the Seven Continents for World Peace".
For Santa, these are the most sacred moments before he takes off on his annual world mid-night gift giving journey. So each Christmas eve way up high amongst the stars Santa Claus in his sleigh has seven minutes of sacred blessings and wishes he bestows upon the earth at seven minutes to mid-night. It is a time of silence for all the reindeer as they blow energy into the wishes and blessings at the exact moment they are spoken by Santa Claus.
Santa invites families and people from all around the world to join him in these sacred moments by saying the following blessing and wish for each nation at the exact time of 7 minutes to mid-night each Christmas Eve. Santa always ends each nations blessing and wish by blowing energy with a kiss into the blessings. The following blessing is said after each continents name starting with Africa, then Antarctica, Australia, Asia, Europe, North America and then ending with:
South America - Santa's Blessing & Wish for this Nation:
"Great wishes are scattered beneath this starry sky to all our brothers and sisters on this eve of the birth of new beginnings. These seeds of hope, great dreams for unity, peace and freedom are too the seeds of remembrance to live in gratitude, to embrace together in peace, love, forgiveness and acceptance. The seeds to move the human race forward and connect all people hand in hand together as one! Take hold new seedlings, embed and grow in the hearts of each one young and old beneath this starry sky this night!"
Santa Claus is a bearer of happiness, generosity of heart, good will and peace for all. He reminds us of our responsibility to create peace and love on the planet. He knows that peace starts with each person and has a ripple effect. Santa wants us to let go of the past hurts, forgive those that have hurt us - not for them but for our peace. He knows that only when we are at peace within can the world be at peace. Peace is one of, if not the greatest gift we can leave on the planet. Peace is love in action!
Christmas - Santa's Secret Christmas Eve World Peace Tradition!
"THE NFL : A Bad Lip Reading" — A Bad Lip Reading of the NFL
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Christmas Weddings - A Magical Time for a Special Event
Weddings are such special events, so why not go all out and choose a magical time of year like Christmas? Creating a new life together, two joined as one, should be memorable. And while winter time can be quite cold, the beautiful memories and sense of community with family and friends can be quite cosy. Christmastime in particular is perfect for choosing a destination wedding as you and your guests can combine the festivities and turn it all into a vacation.
Winter Wedding Options
While some people might consider a sunny destination with sandy beaches, tropical locales can be quite common. However, selecting a colder, snowy destination could be a veritable winter wonderland for Christmas weddings. While many people may not want snow for months out of the year, having it for the Christmas season just seems to fit many people's ideas of the perfect holiday. Why not couple that nostalgic feeling with a celebratory event like a wedding?
Picture a stately log cabin, a sparkly snow-covered countryside, the Northern Lights, and a reindeer-led sleigh. Imagine cool, clear air and pristine white landscapes. With a tropical locale, you likely would have to deal with constantly changing weather - thick humidity and hot sun along with unpredictable rain patterns and possible tropical storms. However, if you choose a cold weather location, such as Finland, Sweden or another destination near the Arctic Circle, you are guaranteed snow on the ground and more stable weather.
Lovely Locales for Christmas Weddings
Ice hotels have become more popular in recent years and are perfect for winter destination weddings. The Quebec province in Canada has an excellent ice hotel offering as does Sweden, which has the largest and most popular location in the world. The ice sculptures and ice art is phenomenal - a truly once in a lifetime experience. Can you imagine a quaint wedding chapel made totally from ice?
The Lapland Sweden area is a good choice if you want a wedding within their igloo villages. Adorable glass igloos offer accommodations and activities along with a chapel made out of snow. You can also consider a ski wedding during the Christmas season. With skiing, sledding, ice driving and other snow-based sporting options, there are many things for guests to do.
Finland is another great destination for Christmas weddings. This country has a number of picturesque chalets for accommodations along with different quaint chapels to choose from for the ceremony including lovely wooden chapels and those made of ice. With the Northern Lights as a backdrop, you could have quite a memorable wedding.
These ice hotels and other winter wedding destinations all have something in common - exceptional planners and customer service people that can help you plan an unforgettable event. Decide what is most important for your wedding ceremony and then choose the best winter location that best suits your desires.
Christmas Weddings - A Magical Time for a Special Event
Justin Timberlake - Suit & Tie (Audio) ft. JAY Z
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Christmas - Unique Celebrations & Traditions in Alaska, Africa & Australia!
Christmas is a celebrated event in many countries world-wide. Here are three countries, Alaska, Africa and Australia all located in vastly different regions of the world and each has their own unique traditions and celebrations. Here are some of their fascinating traditions and celebrations.
Alaska - "Carrying the Star" is a traditional Christmas procession. Young and old carry elaborately decorated tinsel trimmed wheels with eight points, usually as big as umbrellas. They are highlighted with a centre picture of either an angel or the nativity scene. They are carried for three nights from January 7th over icy snow topped roads. The stars represent the angels who announced the birth of Christ. Families lovingly maintain the stars. Some are more than a hundred years old!
Africa - There are approximately 350 million Christians in Africa who celebrate Christmas. Emphasis is more on the religious celebrations of Christ's birth rather than gift giving. Although the most common gift (if nothing else) is new clothes which will be worn to the church service. People in many countries of Africa such as Central African Republic (CAR), Uganda, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo believe it is an absolute must to attend church on Christmas day, even if they never attend the rest of the year. An annual Christmas pageant as well as groups of carolers singing Christmas carols within villages is now part of the festivities.
Churches in Africa start intense preparations for Christmas many months prior. Nobody escapes the yuletide feeling as it has been said that it feels like the whole country is preparing for the birth of the baby Jesus with so much joyful and active community preparation taking place! The streets are alive with music as well as on the radio, television and just about where ever you look! People joyously visit their friends and relatives in the spirit of community celebration regardless of religious persuasion. It is usual to see brightly colored and decorated trucks, cars and buses as well as homes, schools, churches and neighborhoods often boasting creative festive displays made with colored crepe papers. Colorful and alive with joyous celebration is Africa! Ancient and spectacular masquerades locally called "Agugu" now play a major part in Christmas celebrations. Usually held after the Christmas Eve service is a joyous procession of dance and music through the streets lead by local bands with dancing masqueraders (usually young boys dressed in fancy and colorful costumes) and Christmas revelers. People parade with large intricately made lanterns called "fanals" usually in the shape of houses or boats.
In Ghana Christmas dinner is not complete without fufu (a thick dough like food) and okra soup and in Liberia rice, beef and biscuits are the order of the day. Zimbabwean's make sure there's plenty of bread, jam and tea to eat with their prized goat meat which is their traditional Christmas roast. On the west coast of Africa most homes have an oil palm for a Christmas tree.
Austria - St Nicholas is widely honored and appears on his feast day December 6th. In Austria this is a holiday separate from Christmas. He appears in his traditional dress of flowing robe and tall Bishop's miter carrying a shepherd's staff and a thick book. It is believed the good and bad deeds of children are recorded in his book! It was once tradition to hold an elaborate Christmas Eve ceremony where St Nicholas and the feared Ruprecht (demonic creature, who wears a hide, has glowing eyes and a long red tongue) both appear on Christmas Eve. Children gather together and sing a hymn to welcome the Saint. Then one by one the children join the Saint at a family table where he checks their lesson books then asks them to repeat a prayer he says. This ends with the children kissing his Bishops ring while he tells them to go place their shoes outside then look at them when the clock strikes ten! Ruprecht stands over the door watching the childrens every move! Before St Nicholas leaves he blesses the children as he sprinkles them with holy water then quietly and swiftly departs. The children with great excitement then hurriedly run to place their shoes outside their homes. At the stroke of ten children run outside to find their shoes filled with treats of apples and nuts!
Austria is a predominantly Catholic country renowned as the land of the sound of music and home of Mozart, Strauss and Schubert. Included in Christmas celebrations is the "Advent Concert Series" in Innsbruck. It features groups of family singers and instrumentalists similar to the famous "Trapp Family" from "The Sound of Music". Another famous Christmas festivity is in Salzburg where the hottest ticket for the season is for the "Salburger Adventsingen". It is a program of advent music and folk lore which began more than half a century ago. They get more than a 100,000 requests each year for the prized 30,000 tickets available for admission. The fish carp is served for the traditional Christmas dinner.
Austria is famous for its miniature crèche figures. Nearly all families have a crèche with miniature figures of the holy family and often a few animals are included. Many creches are hundreds of years old, treasured heirlooms handed down from one generation to the next!
Austria's Epiphany celebrations - boys and Girls on the day of the Epiphany (which remembers the Three Wise Men from the east who were looking for the newly born Jesus) dress in oriental costumes and sing traditional songs. They move from house to house receiving small gifts including gifts of money. They carry a lantern referred to as the "lighted star of Bethlehem" to guide them on their way. It is popular to see people chalk the initials of the wise men "CMB" (Casper, Melchior, Balthasar) on the transoms of their doorways!
Austria's fun Krampus Day tradition - in Salzburg December 5th is known as Krampus Day. Krampus is believed to be an evil spirit. He is usually clad in frightening fur, wearing deer horns, a mask with a long red tongue and bulging red eyes and carries a birchwood rod. He storms down the street with a loud racket using huge cowbells and rattling chains as he shouts menacingly at the onlookers. Thousands, including many children crowd the streets to watch the medieval event. With much laughter and merry making, whenever children and adults see Krampus, they throw snow balls at this menacing figure. In the city each year a "Krampus Run" is held with fun and much teasing, poking and laughter. It is said that the purpose of Krampus is to remind children to be good!
In recent times in some communities the Krampus actors have to wear a number so they can be identified under their masks in case they loose control. It has been known for some to get carried away after downing a few too many schnapps or beers. A prominent Austrian child psychiatrist has been arguing for a ban on Krampus. He suggests he's "a jolly old fright" for children. However there have been few known cases of "Krampus trauma"!
Australia - Christmas falls in the middle of summer and the heat can be more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It is common for people to hold out-door barbecues for the main Christmas feast and often parks and beaches are alive with family feasting taking place. It is not uncommon to see thongs, shorts, a beer in hand and a Santa hat on the head chef (usually the father in a family) at the Christmas day BBQ which is almost always followed by Australia's best loved desert "Pavlova". It is as light and delicate as Anna Pavlova the famous Russian ballerina for which it is named after.
Australian Carols by Candlelight - an Australian Christmas Eve carol service started in 1937 by radio announcer Norman Banks. Famous performers gather to sing at "Carols by Candlelight" held in Melbourne each year. A hugely popular annual event televised throughout the nation. Carols are performed on a stage to a huge audience where thousands attend outdoors holding lit candles.
Beach visits Christmas Day in Australia - up to 40,000 people visit Bondi Beach in Sydney on Christmas day! It is the middle of summer in Australia and with soaring heat levels beach barbecue lunches and swimming is popular while waiting for Santa to arrive on a boat on Christmas day!
Christmas - Unique Celebrations & Traditions in Alaska, Africa & Australia!
Maroon 5 - Daylight (Playing for Change)
Tube. Duration : 3.93 Mins.
Maroon 5 - Daylight (Playing for Change)
The Daylight (Playing For Change) video is part of the Playing For Change music project series which brings together musicians from around the world. All profits go to their non profit foundation which builds music schools for children around the world. All PFC performers where recorded and filmed live outside and this musical journey takes us from the streets to the stage to the hearts of the people. Playing For Change is a movement uniting people everywhere through music. Music video by Maroon 5 performing Daylight Play for Change. (C) 2012 A&M/Octone Records
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Christmas - Planning A Christmas Bazaar
One of the most wonderful times of the year is Christmas and one of the most exciting events of the Christmas season is the church bazaar. Everyone looks forward to this event as it brings people together and gives us the chance to see folks we haven't seen in a while. But planning a Christmas bazaar is a lot of work. If you're planning on doing one, here are just a few of the things that you're going to want to do.
The first thing you're going to want to do is pick a date and make sure the church is available for that date. The last thing you want is for the minister to tell you that he's got a wedding planned for that day. Saturdays before the Sunday service are usually the best time. You want the date to be close to Christmas but not too close. The first or second week of the month is best.
The next thing you need to do is put out a sign up sheet to see who is going to be setting up tables. This is your main attraction at the bazaar so you want to make sure there are plenty of tables and a good variety of things to sell. You might want to also set up some specialty tables as well, like maybe one to take photos or maybe a table to print out cards showing what happened on your birthday. You'll need a computer and a special program for that. These things usually go over very well and are great money makers.
You'll also want to make sure that you plan to have a lunch setup. Keep the menus simple and the prices fair. People love to eat in between shopping but they don't want to pay a fortune for it either. Have a few different kinds of desserts and drinks available like soda, coffee and tea.
One of the biggest sellers at a Christmas bazaar is the bake shop. This is a lot of work but it is worth it. Have as many people as possible bake cookies and cakes the day before and bring them down to the church to have them bagged and weighed. You want to sell things by the pound. Keep your prices fair and you'll make out very well. Depending on how much is baked, you could make 0 or more just from the bake shop alone.
Finally, you want to make sure that everything is set up the day before. The bazaar should start around 9 or 10 in the morning and it should run until about 3 or 4 in the afternoon. Make sure you have a Santa there to take photos with the kids. You don't have to hire one specially. You can recruit one of the church members who fits the costume to fill the part. You're certain to get at least one volunteer.
By keeping a checklist and making sure that everything on it is done, your bazaar is certain to come off without too many hitches.
Christmas - Planning A Christmas Bazaar
Maroon 5 - Daylight (Playing for Change)
Tube. Duration : 3.93 Mins.
Maroon 5 - Daylight (Playing for Change)
The Daylight (Playing For Change) video is part of the Playing For Change music project series which brings together musicians from around the world. All profits go to their non profit foundation which builds music schools for children around the world. All PFC performers where recorded and filmed live outside and this musical journey takes us from the streets to the stage to the hearts of the people. Playing For Change is a movement uniting people everywhere through music. Music video by Maroon 5 performing Daylight Play for Change. (C) 2012 A&M/Octone Records
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Christmas - Unique Celebrations & Traditions in Alaska, Africa & Australia!
Christmas is a celebrated event in many countries world-wide. Here are three countries, Alaska, Africa and Australia all located in vastly different regions of the world and each has their own unique traditions and celebrations. Here are some of their fascinating traditions and celebrations.
Alaska - "Carrying the Star" is a traditional Christmas procession. Young and old carry elaborately decorated tinsel trimmed wheels with eight points, usually as big as umbrellas. They are highlighted with a centre picture of either an angel or the nativity scene. They are carried for three nights from January 7th over icy snow topped roads. The stars represent the angels who announced the birth of Christ. Families lovingly maintain the stars. Some are more than a hundred years old!
Africa - There are approximately 350 million Christians in Africa who celebrate Christmas. Emphasis is more on the religious celebrations of Christ's birth rather than gift giving. Although the most common gift (if nothing else) is new clothes which will be worn to the church service. People in many countries of Africa such as Central African Republic (CAR), Uganda, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo believe it is an absolute must to attend church on Christmas day, even if they never attend the rest of the year. An annual Christmas pageant as well as groups of carolers singing Christmas carols within villages is now part of the festivities.
Churches in Africa start intense preparations for Christmas many months prior. Nobody escapes the yuletide feeling as it has been said that it feels like the whole country is preparing for the birth of the baby Jesus with so much joyful and active community preparation taking place! The streets are alive with music as well as on the radio, television and just about where ever you look! People joyously visit their friends and relatives in the spirit of community celebration regardless of religious persuasion. It is usual to see brightly colored and decorated trucks, cars and buses as well as homes, schools, churches and neighborhoods often boasting creative festive displays made with colored crepe papers. Colorful and alive with joyous celebration is Africa! Ancient and spectacular masquerades locally called "Agugu" now play a major part in Christmas celebrations. Usually held after the Christmas Eve service is a joyous procession of dance and music through the streets lead by local bands with dancing masqueraders (usually young boys dressed in fancy and colorful costumes) and Christmas revelers. People parade with large intricately made lanterns called "fanals" usually in the shape of houses or boats.
In Ghana Christmas dinner is not complete without fufu (a thick dough like food) and okra soup and in Liberia rice, beef and biscuits are the order of the day. Zimbabwean's make sure there's plenty of bread, jam and tea to eat with their prized goat meat which is their traditional Christmas roast. On the west coast of Africa most homes have an oil palm for a Christmas tree.
Austria - St Nicholas is widely honored and appears on his feast day December 6th. In Austria this is a holiday separate from Christmas. He appears in his traditional dress of flowing robe and tall Bishop's miter carrying a shepherd's staff and a thick book. It is believed the good and bad deeds of children are recorded in his book! It was once tradition to hold an elaborate Christmas Eve ceremony where St Nicholas and the feared Ruprecht (demonic creature, who wears a hide, has glowing eyes and a long red tongue) both appear on Christmas Eve. Children gather together and sing a hymn to welcome the Saint. Then one by one the children join the Saint at a family table where he checks their lesson books then asks them to repeat a prayer he says. This ends with the children kissing his Bishops ring while he tells them to go place their shoes outside then look at them when the clock strikes ten! Ruprecht stands over the door watching the childrens every move! Before St Nicholas leaves he blesses the children as he sprinkles them with holy water then quietly and swiftly departs. The children with great excitement then hurriedly run to place their shoes outside their homes. At the stroke of ten children run outside to find their shoes filled with treats of apples and nuts!
Austria is a predominantly Catholic country renowned as the land of the sound of music and home of Mozart, Strauss and Schubert. Included in Christmas celebrations is the "Advent Concert Series" in Innsbruck. It features groups of family singers and instrumentalists similar to the famous "Trapp Family" from "The Sound of Music". Another famous Christmas festivity is in Salzburg where the hottest ticket for the season is for the "Salburger Adventsingen". It is a program of advent music and folk lore which began more than half a century ago. They get more than a 100,000 requests each year for the prized 30,000 tickets available for admission. The fish carp is served for the traditional Christmas dinner.
Austria is famous for its miniature crèche figures. Nearly all families have a crèche with miniature figures of the holy family and often a few animals are included. Many creches are hundreds of years old, treasured heirlooms handed down from one generation to the next!
Austria's Epiphany celebrations - boys and Girls on the day of the Epiphany (which remembers the Three Wise Men from the east who were looking for the newly born Jesus) dress in oriental costumes and sing traditional songs. They move from house to house receiving small gifts including gifts of money. They carry a lantern referred to as the "lighted star of Bethlehem" to guide them on their way. It is popular to see people chalk the initials of the wise men "CMB" (Casper, Melchior, Balthasar) on the transoms of their doorways!
Austria's fun Krampus Day tradition - in Salzburg December 5th is known as Krampus Day. Krampus is believed to be an evil spirit. He is usually clad in frightening fur, wearing deer horns, a mask with a long red tongue and bulging red eyes and carries a birchwood rod. He storms down the street with a loud racket using huge cowbells and rattling chains as he shouts menacingly at the onlookers. Thousands, including many children crowd the streets to watch the medieval event. With much laughter and merry making, whenever children and adults see Krampus, they throw snow balls at this menacing figure. In the city each year a "Krampus Run" is held with fun and much teasing, poking and laughter. It is said that the purpose of Krampus is to remind children to be good!
In recent times in some communities the Krampus actors have to wear a number so they can be identified under their masks in case they loose control. It has been known for some to get carried away after downing a few too many schnapps or beers. A prominent Austrian child psychiatrist has been arguing for a ban on Krampus. He suggests he's "a jolly old fright" for children. However there have been few known cases of "Krampus trauma"!
Australia - Christmas falls in the middle of summer and the heat can be more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It is common for people to hold out-door barbecues for the main Christmas feast and often parks and beaches are alive with family feasting taking place. It is not uncommon to see thongs, shorts, a beer in hand and a Santa hat on the head chef (usually the father in a family) at the Christmas day BBQ which is almost always followed by Australia's best loved desert "Pavlova". It is as light and delicate as Anna Pavlova the famous Russian ballerina for which it is named after.
Australian Carols by Candlelight - an Australian Christmas Eve carol service started in 1937 by radio announcer Norman Banks. Famous performers gather to sing at "Carols by Candlelight" held in Melbourne each year. A hugely popular annual event televised throughout the nation. Carols are performed on a stage to a huge audience where thousands attend outdoors holding lit candles.
Beach visits Christmas Day in Australia - up to 40,000 people visit Bondi Beach in Sydney on Christmas day! It is the middle of summer in Australia and with soaring heat levels beach barbecue lunches and swimming is popular while waiting for Santa to arrive on a boat on Christmas day!
Christmas - Unique Celebrations & Traditions in Alaska, Africa & Australia!
Maroon 5 - Daylight (Playing for Change)
Tube. Duration : 3.93 Mins.
Maroon 5 - Daylight (Playing for Change)
The Daylight (Playing For Change) video is part of the Playing For Change music project series which brings together musicians from around the world. All profits go to their non profit foundation which builds music schools for children around the world. All PFC performers where recorded and filmed live outside and this musical journey takes us from the streets to the stage to the hearts of the people. Playing For Change is a movement uniting people everywhere through music. Music video by Maroon 5 performing Daylight Play for Change. (C) 2012 A&M/Octone Records
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Decorate Your Desktop Background With Beautiful Christmas Wallpapers
As the end of the year approaches and the festive season starts to kick off with streets lights being hung from lamp posts and the Christmas tree gets put up and decorated in tinsel and flashing lights with carols playing, it is only right that your desktop gets the same treatment. Christmas backgrounds for desktop computers are a great way to keep the spirit going right up until the day.
There are a multitude of Christmas wallpapers for desktop computers but each one will have the same effect and sprinkle a little happiness into the family computer. Every time that the computer is switched on, the Christmas background will bring a smile to the face of the whole family. For children, when they see a Christmas wallpaper on a home desktop or laptop computer, they will instantly become excited at the fact that soon it will be time for father Christmas to visit them on his sleigh and deliver them lots of gifts if of course they have been good little boys and girls that year.
The best Christmas background are full of colour and will show Santa with his sack of toys sitting on his sleigh ready to leave lap land on his round the world trip to bring joy and happiness to children everywhere. Christmas wallpapers that show a lovely warm, cosy house with a big green pine tree that is covered in sparkly tinsel and lights are also great. Snowmen that are dressed up with carrot noses and big woolly scarves make a great Christmas Wallpaper for desktops and lets the imagination drift into dreaming for a perfect white Christmas with the family.
Christmas wallpapers have become so popular that they are now available starring the most popular television characters. For children, cartoon Christmas backgrounds can offer them the chance to see their favourite television friends in a way that they have not previously seen. Disney characters such as Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Pluto all now star in their own personal Disney Christmas Wallpaper Range. By far the most popular version of the Disney range of Christmas backgrounds is one that shows Mickey dressed up as Father Christmas sitting on his sleigh in Lapland and waving goodbye to Mrs Christmas Minnie mouse. This Christmas wallpaper shows Pluto the dog with a red shiny nose and he is strapped up to the sleigh ready to travel the globe.
Possible the most important message of Christmas is to advocate sharing and love. The real meaning of Christmas should not be forgotten and there is also a whole host of Christmas backgrounds for desktops remember the real reason why this day in December is celebrated all around the world. The most popular Christmas wallpapers that fall under this category are those that show the baby in the manger in Bethlehem and David star at night. The three wise men that travelled for days to reach the baby Jesus are also popular as a Christmas background as well as possible the most popular which is the portrait photo of the stable in which Mary and Joseph spent the night.
Decorate Your Desktop Background With Beautiful Christmas Wallpapers
Maroon 5 - Daylight (Playing for Change)
Tube. Duration : 3.93 Mins.
Maroon 5 - Daylight (Playing for Change)
The Daylight (Playing For Change) video is part of the Playing For Change music project series which brings together musicians from around the world. All profits go to their non profit foundation which builds music schools for children around the world. All PFC performers where recorded and filmed live outside and this musical journey takes us from the streets to the stage to the hearts of the people. Playing For Change is a movement uniting people everywhere through music. Music video by Maroon 5 performing Daylight Play for Change. (C) 2012 A&M/Octone Records
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A Pickle of a Tradition - Christmas
As legend has it, in Germany parents decorate their Tannenbaums on Christmas Eve. The last ornament hung is die Weinachtsgurke-a delicate glass ornament in the shape of a pickle. This is a significant ornament, for the next morning the children will rush in to open their gifts from St. Nicholas. But the festivities can not begin until one of the children locates the elusive gherkin. The one who finds it gets to open the first gift, and may even receive an extra treat for his or her effort. So the story is told here in America. Glass Christmas Pickles are a popular ornament, and usually come with the curious legend tucked or printed on the box.
The oddest part about this legend is that it is virtually unknown in Germany. Nobody knows where it came from, or who started it. Well known is the fact that the decorating of Christmas Trees with lights, ornaments, and tinsel originated in Germany, but unless the Pickle Tradition was practiced in a remote region of the fatherland, it is likely that the legend was created at least in part by Americans, perhaps of German descent. There are several stories floating around about how the tradition may have started.
One rumor tells of a Bavarian-born Union soldier fighting in the Civil War named John Lower (or perhaps Hans Lauer) who was captured and sent to prison in Georgia. In poor health and starving, the prisoner begged for just one pickle before he died. A merciful guard took pity and found him a pickle. Miraculously, John lived, and after he returned home he began the tradition of the Christmas Pickle, promising good fortune to the one who found the special ornament on Christmas Day.
If this story seems a bit stretched, there is a second story being perpetuated in Berrien Springs, Michigan, where 24% of the population report German ancestry. Residents claim that hundreds of years ago two young Spanish boys, when traveling home from boarding school one Christmas Eve, sought refuge for the night at an inn. Here they encountered a cantankerous inn-keeper who trapped them in a pickle barrel. When St. Nicholas stopped at the inn that evening he sensed their distress and tapped the barrel with his staff, magically freeing them. Whether this story is true or not, Berrien Springs calls itself The Christmas Pickle Capital of the World.
The first ornaments used by Germans to decorate Christmas Trees were fruits, particularly apples, and nuts. These, along with the evergreen tree itself, represented the certainty that life would return in the spring. In the mid-eighteen hundreds, a few enterprising individuals living in the village of Lauscha (in the present-day state of Thuringen) began selling glass ornaments. Using fruit and nut molds at first, they eventually branched out, adding thousands of molds to their repertoire: angels, bells, saints, hearts, stars, and so on. Still, there is no evidence of their having made a pickle, or of the pickle tradition ever being practiced in Lauscha or any other German village.
Wherever the legend came from, the Christmas Pickle Tradition is here to stay. Several German glass ornament makers have capitalized on the story and offer a variety of gherkins, dills and cucumbers (some even donning cheery Santa caps!), perpetuating the myth even as their German neighbors vehemently deny having ever heard of it. Whatever the origin, the tradition is sure to bring a hearty dose of Christmas cheer. And isn't that the point?
A Pickle of a Tradition - Christmas
Maroon 5 - Daylight (Playing for Change)
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Maroon 5 - Daylight (Playing for Change)
The Daylight (Playing For Change) video is part of the Playing For Change music project series which brings together musicians from around the world. All profits go to their non profit foundation which builds music schools for children around the world. All PFC performers where recorded and filmed live outside and this musical journey takes us from the streets to the stage to the hearts of the people. Playing For Change is a movement uniting people everywhere through music. Music video by Maroon 5 performing Daylight Play for Change. (C) 2012 A&M/Octone Records
Maroon 5 - Daylight (Playing for Change)
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Decorate Your Desktop Background With Beautiful Christmas Wallpapers
As the end of the year approaches and the festive season starts to kick off with streets lights being hung from lamp posts and the Christmas tree gets put up and decorated in tinsel and flashing lights with carols playing, it is only right that your desktop gets the same treatment. Christmas backgrounds for desktop computers are a great way to keep the spirit going right up until the day.
There are a multitude of Christmas wallpapers for desktop computers but each one will have the same effect and sprinkle a little happiness into the family computer. Every time that the computer is switched on, the Christmas background will bring a smile to the face of the whole family. For children, when they see a Christmas wallpaper on a home desktop or laptop computer, they will instantly become excited at the fact that soon it will be time for father Christmas to visit them on his sleigh and deliver them lots of gifts if of course they have been good little boys and girls that year.
The best Christmas background are full of colour and will show Santa with his sack of toys sitting on his sleigh ready to leave lap land on his round the world trip to bring joy and happiness to children everywhere. Christmas wallpapers that show a lovely warm, cosy house with a big green pine tree that is covered in sparkly tinsel and lights are also great. Snowmen that are dressed up with carrot noses and big woolly scarves make a great Christmas Wallpaper for desktops and lets the imagination drift into dreaming for a perfect white Christmas with the family.
Christmas wallpapers have become so popular that they are now available starring the most popular television characters. For children, cartoon Christmas backgrounds can offer them the chance to see their favourite television friends in a way that they have not previously seen. Disney characters such as Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Pluto all now star in their own personal Disney Christmas Wallpaper Range. By far the most popular version of the Disney range of Christmas backgrounds is one that shows Mickey dressed up as Father Christmas sitting on his sleigh in Lapland and waving goodbye to Mrs Christmas Minnie mouse. This Christmas wallpaper shows Pluto the dog with a red shiny nose and he is strapped up to the sleigh ready to travel the globe.
Possible the most important message of Christmas is to advocate sharing and love. The real meaning of Christmas should not be forgotten and there is also a whole host of Christmas backgrounds for desktops remember the real reason why this day in December is celebrated all around the world. The most popular Christmas wallpapers that fall under this category are those that show the baby in the manger in Bethlehem and David star at night. The three wise men that travelled for days to reach the baby Jesus are also popular as a Christmas background as well as possible the most popular which is the portrait photo of the stable in which Mary and Joseph spent the night.
Decorate Your Desktop Background With Beautiful Christmas Wallpapers
Maroon 5 - Daylight (Playing for Change)
Video Clips. Duration : 3.93 Mins.
Maroon 5 - Daylight (Playing for Change)
The Daylight (Playing For Change) video is part of the Playing For Change music project series which brings together musicians from around the world. All profits go to their non profit foundation which builds music schools for children around the world. All PFC performers where recorded and filmed live outside and this musical journey takes us from the streets to the stage to the hearts of the people. Playing For Change is a movement uniting people everywhere through music. Music video by Maroon 5 performing Daylight Play for Change. (C) 2012 A&M/Octone Records
Maroon 5 - Daylight (Playing for Change)
Maroon 5 - Daylight (Playing for Change)
Maroon 5 - Daylight (Playing for Change)
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Christmas Weddings - A Magical Time for a Special Event
Weddings are such special events, so why not go all out and choose a magical time of year like Christmas? Creating a new life together, two joined as one, should be memorable. And while winter time can be quite cold, the beautiful memories and sense of community with family and friends can be quite cosy. Christmastime in particular is perfect for choosing a destination wedding as you and your guests can combine the festivities and turn it all into a vacation.
Winter Wedding Options
While some people might consider a sunny destination with sandy beaches, tropical locales can be quite common. However, selecting a colder, snowy destination could be a veritable winter wonderland for Christmas weddings. While many people may not want snow for months out of the year, having it for the Christmas season just seems to fit many people's ideas of the perfect holiday. Why not couple that nostalgic feeling with a celebratory event like a wedding?
Picture a stately log cabin, a sparkly snow-covered countryside, the Northern Lights, and a reindeer-led sleigh. Imagine cool, clear air and pristine white landscapes. With a tropical locale, you likely would have to deal with constantly changing weather - thick humidity and hot sun along with unpredictable rain patterns and possible tropical storms. However, if you choose a cold weather location, such as Finland, Sweden or another destination near the Arctic Circle, you are guaranteed snow on the ground and more stable weather.
Lovely Locales for Christmas Weddings
Ice hotels have become more popular in recent years and are perfect for winter destination weddings. The Quebec province in Canada has an excellent ice hotel offering as does Sweden, which has the largest and most popular location in the world. The ice sculptures and ice art is phenomenal - a truly once in a lifetime experience. Can you imagine a quaint wedding chapel made totally from ice?
The Lapland Sweden area is a good choice if you want a wedding within their igloo villages. Adorable glass igloos offer accommodations and activities along with a chapel made out of snow. You can also consider a ski wedding during the Christmas season. With skiing, sledding, ice driving and other snow-based sporting options, there are many things for guests to do.
Finland is another great destination for Christmas weddings. This country has a number of picturesque chalets for accommodations along with different quaint chapels to choose from for the ceremony including lovely wooden chapels and those made of ice. With the Northern Lights as a backdrop, you could have quite a memorable wedding.
These ice hotels and other winter wedding destinations all have something in common - exceptional planners and customer service people that can help you plan an unforgettable event. Decide what is most important for your wedding ceremony and then choose the best winter location that best suits your desires.
Christmas Weddings - A Magical Time for a Special Event
Maroon 5 - Daylight (Playing for Change)
Video Clips. Duration : 3.93 Mins.
Maroon 5 - Daylight (Playing for Change)
The Daylight (Playing For Change) video is part of the Playing For Change music project series which brings together musicians from around the world. All profits go to their non profit foundation which builds music schools for children around the world. All PFC performers where recorded and filmed live outside and this musical journey takes us from the streets to the stage to the hearts of the people. Playing For Change is a movement uniting people everywhere through music. Music video by Maroon 5 performing Daylight Play for Change. (C) 2012 A&M/Octone Records
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