Christmas Sayings For Cards, Gifts and Crafts

Use these short Christmas sayings on your stockings, cards and other crafts. These are all short enough to embroider quickly on felt ornaments, felt gift tags, or across the body of a fabric snowman.

Make your card out of felt this year in a Christmas shape and add tiny bells. The saying "Jingle all the Way" would be appropriate for embroidering on the felt card.

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Not just for Christmas cards, Christmas sayings can be stitched, printed, embossed, painted on wood crafts, put on a coffee mug, made as a sign, added to ribbon, used on a T-shirt or sweatshirt with fabric pens, made into a magnet, added to a Christmas ornament, used as a gift tag, applied to stickers or buttons, made into a rubber stamp, cross stitched on towels, used on web pages, sewn on a Christmas stocking, used as scrapbook sayings or added to picture frames.

Christmas Sayings For Cards, Gifts and Crafts

Let your children make their Christmas cards and use these sayings. Help them draw a cat and mouse in a stocking and use the "Meo-wy Christ-mouse" saying inside the card. Or take a picture of your dog wearing a Santa hat and use the saying "Santa Paws". There's so many uses for these short Christmas sayings:

ho ho ho

Baby's First Christmas

Peace on Earth

Angels Gather Here

Merry Christmas

Deck the Halls

Joy

Let it Snow

Noel

Rejoice

Seasons Greetings

We Believe in Santa

Peace - Joy - Love

Silent Night

Joy - Noel - Angels

Winter Wonderland

Happy Holidays

Jingle All the Way

Have a Jolly Christmas

'Tis the Season

Jolly Kriss Kringle

Christmas Blessings

I Believe

Think Snow

Merry Merry Merry

All I Want For Christmas

Celebrate the Season

Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas

Good Tidings

Enjoy the Holly Days

Winter Welcome

All is Calm, All is Bright

Be Jolly by Golly

Under the Mistletoe

Yuletide Greetings

Sugar and Spice makes Christmas Nice

Holly Jolly Christmas

Meo-wy Christ-mouse

Oh, Christmas Tree

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

All Hearts Come Home for Christmas

Christmas Sayings For Cards, Gifts and Crafts

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Traditional Jamaican Christmas Cake

Christmas fruitcakes have been baked for centuries with the oldest known recipe dating back to Ancient Rome. Fruitcakes were a way to preserve fruits and nuts as well as a way to celebrate the harvest and seek good luck in the coming year. Jamaicans favorite Christmas cake is dark, spongy and heavy, with rum soaked fruit and rich flavor. Eaten only at Christmas the cake is a favored gift and family tradition.

Ingredients:

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* 1 lb. Raisins

Traditional Jamaican Christmas Cake

* 4 oz. Cherries

* ½ lb. Chopped prunes

* 2 oz. Cranberries

* 32 oz. Dark Jamaican rum

* 4 oz. Citrus peels

* grated rind of 1 lime

* 6 oz. or 1.5 cup flour

* 8 oz. butter

* 8 oz. sugar

* 4 eggs

* 1 tsp. cinnamon

* ½ tsp. allspice

* ½ tsp. Ground cloves

* ½ tsp. salt

* 1 cup wine/brandy

* 1 tsp. baking powder

* 1 tsp. vanilla

* 2 tbsp. browning

Directions:

Soak fruits, peels and rind in rum for two weeks before baking. In a separate bowl whip butter, sugar and browning until creamy. Combine dry ingredients in separate bowl and mix well. In a third bowl beat eggs and brandy together until well blended.

Add egg mixture to creamed butter mixture and blend well. Strain and add fruits, keeping rum for fruity drinks. Gradually mix dry ingredients to batter and fold together.

Pour batter into a lightly buttered 9" cake pan and bake at 350F for 1-½ hours checking after 1 hour. Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.

Traditional Jamaican Christmas Cake

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Christmas Quiz and Christmas Trivia Questions

A Christmas quiz has always been popular and is a great way to attract seasonal customers into your pub, bar or social club. In fact, hospitals and convalescent homes also run Christmas quizzes because there is something about them appeals to people.

Perhaps it's the time of year, and the feeling of familiarity that people seem to have with this holiday period, but whatever it is people will gladly try to answer some Christmas trivia questions who would run a mile from a general knowledge trivia quiz. This is in spite of the fact that many questions in Christmas quizzes are general knowledge, with only a fleeting association with the real message of this time of year.

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A question such as "In what modern country is Noah's Ark believed to have finally grounded after the great flood receded?" The answer is Turkey, and has an association with Turkey only in that people eat them at Christmas (turkeys, not Turks).

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A similar example of Christmas trivia is the question "On what date in 1223 did St. Francis of Assisi assemble the first Nativity scene?" Most would never have clue about the answer to this, but it is a Christmas Quiz, so why not take an educated guess at December 25th? And you would be correct.

So the very fact that we are dealing with Christmas trivia questions should enable us to take a guess at the answer with a good chance of getting them right. Not all answers will be December 25th, but knowing the topic narrows the choices down considerably, and that is one reason why more people will enter your Christmas quiz than just any old pub quiz.

Families also like to hold quiz evenings at this time of year. Generally, however, the questions are a bit too difficult for those not used to regular quizzes. Nevertheless, it is usually possible to pick the easier questions from a bought quiz, and then add some of your own to compensate.

The problem with quizzes is that there is a divide between those that quiz regularly and those that do not, and the regular quizzer will not be worried by questions that others would find difficult - particularly at Christmas when many will read up as much Christmas trivia as they can find before their local pub's Christmas quiz.

If you are considering hosting a Christmas quiz, you will need to keep the questions close to the capabilities of your customers. This is not easy to do, and most amateurs tend to pitch the questions either far too difficult or too easy. They take the view that if they can answer the questions themselves, and then it must be at the right level. Anybody can spot the false logic in that, and it is both easier and potentially more lucrative to pay for your Christmas trivia questions - or even for an entire Christmas quiz.

That is because if you set a bad quiz that is either too easy or too hard for the entrants you will have blown it for any future quizzes. There's nothing wrong with purchasing quizzes, and then slipping a few rounds of your own into them and seeing how they are accepted. Who knows - your may be a quiz setting Laureate, but you have to test the water first before taking the chance of compromising future quiz attendances.

There is no knack to setting Christmas quizzes, but there is setting them neither too easy nor too hard. I once attended a quiz that was doing fine until the last question which was to name the entire English rugby team that beat France in the Six Nations that week. That could result in a swing of 15-20 points (including subs) on one question, and is how not to set a quiz.

A Christmas quiz should not be too sports-oriented. Most people like music and movies with a seasonal theme, and you should have one round on the real Christmas message. Otherwise get started and the best of luck with your Christmas trivia questions.

Christmas Quiz and Christmas Trivia Questions

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Thoughtful Christmas Greeting Messages

Telling someone that they are loved during the Christmas season is easy with Christmas greeting messages. Multiple greeting card companies are always thinking up new ways to make the Christmas season special, improving on the variety and type of messages that can be found inside their Christmas cards.

The Origin of the Christmas Cards Custom

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The custom of sending Christmas cards began in London in 1843 when Sir Henry Cole commissioned a card with an illustration by John Callcott Horsley. A batch of 1000 cards was printed off and sold for a shilling each. At that time the focus was more on the picture than on the Christmas greeting message inside. From around 1860, Christmas cards were produced in larger numbers As printing methods improved.

Thoughtful Christmas Greeting Messages

The Development of Christmas Cards

Traditionally, Christmas cards showed religious pictures illustrating parts of the Christmas story. The religious aspect became less popular in the late 19th century and cards became more lavish. At the turn-of-the century European Christmas postcards were introduced and remained popular for the next 10 years. And from then on designs and fashions in Christmas Cards and their greeting messages have developed through the hand-painted cards were popular during the 1920s and heavily influenced by the Art Deco movement, those making fun of poverty and prohibition during the 1930s, to more humorous cards that were introduced in the 1950s. Humor continues to be popular today, as does religious motifs, winter pictures, Father Christmas, or romantic scenes of life in past times.

Searching for the right words to express to others inside a card can be a lot of fun for many people and makes the holiday season all the merrier. Like the card themselves Christmas greeting messages come in various forms. Many are sentimental with expressions of love for a special person, some are witty and some are of a more religious nature. And then there are the plain "Have a Happy Christmas" type messages. The greetings displayed in the card can mean so much to not only the recipient, but to the sender, as well.

Creating Your Own Christmas Cards

For those that like to create their own Christmas greeting messages, many cards can be customized on computers, as well as through specialty print shops such as Ipads. Many businesses and organizations like to have their own Christmas greeting messages inside of their holiday cards that are sent to their customers as a form of personalized "thank you" for their custom during the year. Customizing Christmas greeting messages is a great way to go that extra step and make card selection a bit more personal and can be easily and cheaply achieved at Costco or Kinkos.

In the end, however, it is typically not the card that makes the season special, but the Christmas greeting messages that are within the card so choose them thoughtfully.

Thoughtful Christmas Greeting Messages

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Retro Christmas Decorations Capture the Upbeat Energy of the Postwar Era

Recreate the fun and flair of the postwar decades with retro Christmas decorations that capture the colorful, lighthearted mood of the era.

The fifties and sixties were a positive time in American history and nothing reflects the upbeat energy of the time like the holiday decor of the period. "Modern" was the key in all aspects of interior design, and the heavy, fussy prewar style of the thirties and forties was banished by clean lines, geometric shapes, and clear, bright colors. Nowhere was this more apparent than in holiday decorating, which took an abrupt turn away from time-honored tradition to glitzy, glittery, and frankly fun.

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The booming post-war economy brought a new level of affluence to the average American family, and mass manufacturing transformed items like glass Christmas tree ornaments from rare and costly heirlooms to affordable additions that could be picked up at the corner five & dime.

Retro Christmas Decorations Capture the Upbeat Energy of the Postwar Era

The nation's growing fascination with technology and the new manmade materials like synthetics, fiberglass, plastics really took off during the "space age" decades. In holiday decorating, natural greens vied with unabashedly artificial creations of tinsel, foil, or plastic.

No part of holiday decor changed more during the retro period than the Christmas tree itself. Once a hallmark of serious and meaningful tradition, the retro era saw the tree became a lighthearted and even whimsical showcase for personal expression. Artificial trees in sparkling mettalics or frosty whites and pastels became wildly popular during the period, often decorated in a single color theme. Perhaps the most classic of all retro Christmas images is the white or silver artificial tree, garlanded with tinsel and hung with gleaming silver balls, skirted with a blanket of fiberglass "snow", and illuminated by a slowly revolving colorwheel light that bathed it in a constantly changing colored glow.

Though Christmas tree lights were actually invented in the 19th century, they remained both costly and delicate and for almost half a century. But in the fifties manufacturing innovations made them both affordable and reliable, and they quickly became the backbone of both interior and exterior holiday decorating. Unlike the small and subtle lights that became common in the seventies, the tree lights of the fifties and sixties were big, bright color accents.

Just about every fifties Christmas tree had at least one string of bubble lights, a novelty that quickly became the epitome of retro holiday decor. Bubble lights consisted of a slender, pointed glass vial filled with a liquid (usually methylene chloride or lightweight oil) positioned above a colored plastic globe that housed a small light bulb. Because the liquid in the vial had a very low boiling point, the heat of the bulb was enough to cause bubbles to rise and create a unique "active" ornament.

Retro Christmas Decorations Capture the Upbeat Energy of the Postwar Era

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Christmas Games For Adults That Are Silly, Quiet, Fun and More

Who said Christmas games are only for children? Christmas games are for adults, too, and they don't have to be serious. After all, adults like to get their game on to relive a few silly childhood moments. Get the holiday fun started with these fun-loving adult Christmas games.

Silly Adult Christmas Games

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Does your group look for any excuse to be silly? Why not choose a Christmas game that is based on being silly? Give each team a pair of pantyhose and eight balloons. When the game starts, the team blows up the balloons to stuff into the legs of the hose. To ensure the game is totally fair, the pantyhose should be queen size and the teams of equal number.

Christmas Games For Adults That Are Silly, Quiet, Fun and More

The game is finished when someone gets all the balloons in the legs of the pantyhose, puts on the stuffed "antlers" and sings the first verse of the holiday favorite, "Jingle Bells". When everyone finishes the game, take photos of all your friends wearing funny antlers made of balloons and pantyhose.

Adult Relay Christmas Games

Do your friends enjoy relay games? Why not make your own Santa beard? Put out two oversize bowls filled with cotton balls and a jar of petroleum jelly. Dab petroleum jelly on each team member's chin. The 2 teams should each have around 5 people. The first player in each line runs to one of the bowls to grab cotton balls and stick them to their greasy chins. When they get as many cotton balls as possible stuck on their chins, the players run to the next player to give them a turn.

When the entire team is wearing a Santa Beard, they are the winners. This is another holiday game that really begs you to take pictures so you can show them off for years to come. Keep water and towels handy to remove the petroleum jelly when the game and photo session is over.

Quiet Christmas Games For Small Groups

Are your friends a small, quiet group who prefer less demonstrative games? Why not pack up a bag for Santa? The game starts when you say, "I packed a bag for Santa Claus and put in some socks." The next player goes on to say, "I packed a bag for Santa Claus and put in some socks and books." As each player continues they includes all the listed items and add their own item. When you miss an item on the list, you are out of the game.

Child-Inspired Christmas Games For Adults

Do your friends love to relive their childhoods during Christmas? Why not give your guests a chance to do it at your Christmas party with a fun game that reminds them of a childhood favorite? Make your own Christmas scavenger hunt with search teams of 4 or so. Create lists of items for the teams to return with.

You can keep the search local at your house or within the neighborhood area. Include holiday items in the scavenger hunt such as a red stocking, a sprig of holly and a small wreath. If you decide to extend the scavenger hunt through town, it gets even more exciting. Have your guests purchase a box of holiday themed cereal or take a picture to prove they visited the local Christmas tree. Be creative and make the hunt action-packed. Everyone loves this Christmas game because it reminds them of childhood. It's a great way to socialize because as everyone works together they get to know each other better.

Adult Kiss Christmas Games

Who doesn't love chocolate and kisses? Is that why Hershey's Kisses are such as hit at Christmas? Break your group into two teams with two bowls of Hershey's Kisses on either side of the room. Give each team a set of really big gloves or mittens. The first person in line runs to the bowls and must unwrap and eat the a Kiss wearing bulky gloves. Once done, the player runs back to tag the next person and give them the gloves. When all team members are the first to enjoy their own Kiss, the group wins.

Christmas Games For Adults That Are Silly, Quiet, Fun and More

One last thing -- Imagine the look on your child's face if they received a personalized letter from Santa. You can also include extra goodies with the Santa letter like Reindeer food. It's a gift that makes a strong and lasting impression.

Victorian Christmas Traditions - How the Victorians Celebrated Christmas

Many of the Christmas traditions and practices we enjoy the most can be traced back to the Victorian era, which covers the duration of Queen Victoria's ruling over the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901. During that period, the country experienced something of an emergence from its formerly Puritanical bans on extravagant celebrations. Naturally, people rather exuberantly embraced their newly merry and flamboyant celebrations, spawning a host of traditions. Many of the most popular Victorian traditions are still very much in practice today.

Perhaps one of the most popular Victorian Christmas traditions that is still observed today is the sending of Christmas cards. The practice of sending printed Christmas cards started in England and was a modification of the then customary writing of greetings by English children to their parents. The printed cards enjoyed huge success and later on became a contagious practice that spread from England to the rest of the UK then to the rest of the world. More than a century later, we still send Christmas cards by the truckload to destinations around the globe.

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The Christmas tree was not a British innovation, but history has it that the German husband of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, brought and introduced the Christmas tree from Germany to the United Kingdom in the 1840s. From Windsor castle, the tree's popularity spread rapidly, becoming even more popular in the US than it ever was in England, and now the Christmas tree is practically synonymous with Christmas, even though were banned by the Puritans as being far too pagan in its symbolism.

Victorian Christmas Traditions - How the Victorians Celebrated Christmas

Two London-based sweets makers, James Hovell and Tom Smith invented Christmas crackers in 1846. The confectionery makers wrapped their sweets in colored paper twisted around the shaft. The wrapped candies became further popular when love notes, small toys and other bits and pieces were also tucked inside the crackers.

The traditional visitations of carol singers also started in England during the Victorian era. Popular Christmas carols became crowd favorites. Among them were 'O Come All Ye Faithful', 'See Amid the Winters Snow' and 'O Little Town of Bethlehem'.

The next time you exchange gifts with friends and family, remember that the traditional Christmas practice was started during the Victorian era. During the reign of Queen Victoria, the middle class people started making hand-made toys that were then given to children for free on Christmas Day.

The hugely popular Santa Claus is a very characteristic Victorian tradition, as well. In England, Santa Claus was first known as Father Christmas, who was committed to giving out gifts to children on the eve of Christmas Day.

These are just a few examples of the more celebrated Victorian Christmas traditions. They surely add color and fun to everyone's Christmas.

Victorian Christmas Traditions - How the Victorians Celebrated Christmas

For some great Christmas Victoriana to add to your own holiday celebrations, there are wonderful Victorian Christmas decorations available, but some of my favorite collectibles are actual ephemera from the period, such as Victorian Christmas Cards

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Inflatable Christmas Decorations - Simply the Best

Inflatable Christmas decorations are the latest trends in the Christmas decor, especially in yard decoration. The house looks visible and festive with these inflatable Christmas decorations which include blown up figures of Santa Claus, angels, sitting sleigh and other Christmas figures. These inflatable decorations are nothing but giant nylon or vinyl balloons. These are available deflated in varying characters, size and colors to decorate the house as per the chosen color scheme. These can be purchased in carrying cases along with electric pumps and when required can be inflated for decoration and can again be deflated for reuse.

Since these inflatable decorative items are mostly large in size and are made of heavy duty material to resist all kinds of weather conditions, these are best suited for outdoor decoration like lawns, roof, yard, porch, driveway and front door. Sometimes, due to up and down in the temperature, these characters may shrink and droop but an instant touch with the electric pump will make it stand upright again. And because of their 3D structure, they add a real touch to the Christmas decoration and the environment looks livelier. Waving Santa Claus figure can be placed beside the Christmas tree in the lawn or at the front door to welcome the guests.

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With these inflatable Christmas decorations, one can put his own ideas to decorate the house and the Christmas tree. The favorite character can be made Christmas tree topper. These are safe, easy to use and store and do not require too much maintenance. One of the advantages of these decorative characters is that these are very eye catchy. Various inflatable decorative Christmas characters include Santa holding the hand of Mrs. Claus, snowmen, reindeer, Nutcracker dolls and elves. One may also find famous cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Frosty the snowman and many more. These inflatable Christmas decorations can be used to impersonate Christmas stories and can also be decorated with lights to illuminate these characters.

Inflatable Christmas Decorations - Simply the Best

Inflatable Christmas Decorations - Simply the Best

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Choosing & Cooking Chinese Christmas Recipes

With the Chinese New Year being the most important event in the Chinese calendar, you'd imagine that Christmas got swept under the carpet. Not so, as celebrating Christmas becomes more popular throughout China.

Whilst you won't find the hype and shopping madness of Western countries, in major cities you'll see lights, trees and Christmas decorations on the streets and in stores. Christmas Day is not even a bank holiday in China, although it is in Hong Kong and Macao. Whether this is just part of the Chinese interest in Western culture, or a sales ploy by the big stores, who can say?

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With an increasing number of Christians, it can only be expected that more people will be celebrating the festive season in China each year. With little tradition and history, cooking for a Chinese Christmas dinner means you can cook any special occasion dish you choose.

Choosing & Cooking Chinese Christmas Recipes

However, there are a few suggestions we can make to get you started:-

• Peking Duck
• Cantonese Roast Duck
• Kung Pao Chicken
• Cookies
• Five Spice Peanuts
• Sesame Seed Balls
• Spring Rolls

Whilst many of the recipes above are traditionally eaten for the Chinese New Year, they will serve just as well for a Christmas dinner. As always with Chinese cooking, use the freshest ingredients, prepare them well ahead of time, so that all you have to do is cook!

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Choosing & Cooking Chinese Christmas Recipes

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Decorating Christmas Cakes

When most people think of a Christmas cake, the Yule log comes to mind. The cake is often one of many desserts spread on the dinner table after a huge family meal. Lately, Christmas cakes have more often been decorated cakes, depicting a snowy scene, Santa, or a Christmas tree.

Over the past few years, cake decorating has become a widely recognized hobby and art form. Popular television shows have sparked increased interest in this art and have inspired people to take classes and start making cakes on their own instead of buying them.

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While the outside of the typical Christmas cake has evolved with the time, the same family favorites still lie on the inside of the cake. Today's cakes, while covered in buttercream or fondant, can even be flavored with mint flavoring oil for that seasonal flair.

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Your cake will come out much better if you plan out the design in advance. Draw a sketch to see how it will look and to get an idea of what colors look good together. If you have time, you can practice new cake decorating techniques in advance, but when it comes to a more complicated cake, you will need time for gum paste decorations to dry. Depending on the weather, some can take up to a week to harden. This also depends on how large your gum paste figure is.

If you don't want to get too complicated, here are a few ideas that are relatively simple. You can decorate any shape cake with Christmas presents made from gum paste. Just form a cube out of different colors of gum paste. Cut up thin strips of contrasting colors to attach to these cubes. Using a little gum glue to adhere them, lay these strips on the cubes in a criss cross pattern. You can even form a small bow for the top of the presents. For a Christmas tree cake, you can either buy the tree cake pan or carve the cake out of a sheet cake. Frost it in green and decorate with small candies.

Another simple idea is to make a Christmas holly cake. The green and red holly contrasts nicely with a simple white cake. To make the holly, you will need gum paste and a holly leaf cutter. Tint some gum paste a dark green, roll it out thin and cut the holly leaves. For each grouping of holly, you'll need three leaves. Dry the leaves on crumpled aluminum foil to give them a more natural shape. Tint gum paste red and roll three pea sized balls for each holly grouping. When all the gum paste decorations are dry, spray them with confectioner's lacquer. Arrange 3 leaves together so they fan out and place the berries in the center. Attach your gum paste leaves and berries with gum glue. You can either place several leaf groupings around the edge or create the entire edge of the cake out of holly.

To create a simple wintery scene, make white chocolate snowflakes to decorate the cake. Either draw or print out pictures of snowflakes, tape them down and tape plastic wrap over them. Pipe melted white chocolate using the #4 cake decorating tip and place them in the freezer for 5 minutes. Carefully peel them off the plastic. They can either lay flat on the cake or you can stick them into the icing and make them stand up.

Decorating Christmas Cakes

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