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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Just Before We Took the Tree Down
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It’s Starting to Feel a Lot Like Christmas
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How to Make Tin Punched Christmas Ornaments : What Is Tin Punching?
Learn all about making tin punching Christmas ornaments with expert tips on decorating Christmas trees in thisfree holiday video. Expert: Marie French Bio: Marie French’s work has traveled the globe. She has taught what sje has learned in workshops, museums and libraries in New York. Filmmaker: Sally Martin
The Traditions of Christmas
Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus for members of the Christian religion. From November onwards, it is impossible to forget that Christmas is coming. Colored lights decorate many town centers and shops, along with shiny decorations, and artificial snow painted on shop windows.
In streets and shops, Christmas real trees or plastic evergreen conifer trees will also be decorated with lights and Christmas ornaments.
Shopping centers become busier as December approaches and often stay open till late. Shopping center speaker will play Christmas carols systematically – the traditional Christmas Christian songs and groups of people will often sing carols on the streets to raise money for charity. Most places of work will hold a short Christmas party about a week before Christmas. Although traditional Christmas foods may be eaten, drink (and plenty of it) means that little work will be done after the party!
By mid-December, most homes will also be decorated with Christmas trees, colored lights and paper or plastic decorations around the rooms. These days, many more people also decorate garden trees or house walls with colored electric lights, a habit which has long been popular in USA.
In many countries, most people post Christmas greeting cards to their friends and family, and these cards will be hung on the walls of their homes. The custom of sending Christmas cards started in Britain in 1840 when the first ‘Penny Post’ public postal deliveries began. As printing methods improved, Christmas cards were produced in large numbers from about 1860. They became even more popular in Britain when a card could be posted in an unsealed envelope for one half-penny – half the price of an ordinary letter. In UK this year, the British Post Office expects to handle over 100 million cards EACH DAY, in the three weeks before Christmas.
Traditionally, Christmas cards showed religious pictures – Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus, or other parts of the Christmas story. Today, pictures are often jokes, winter pictures, Father Christmas, or romantic scenes of life in past times.
The traditions of the Christmas are very important and interesting for the Christians. Of course, they will pass these traditions from generations to generations.
How Popular Christmas Carols Came About
Christmas Carols are sung mostly during the holiday season but most of us find ourselves humming them periodically during the course of the year. They come out of our mouths mindlessly and we rarely stop and wonder where they came from. Most revolve around the birth of Christ but the variety, history and popularity of Christmas carols is fascinating. Two of the most popular songs of all time are Christmas carols.
Silent Night – was a poem written by an Austrian priest, Joseph Mohr, in 1816. It became a Christmas carol on Christmas Eve in 1818 in Obendorf, Austria, a village near Salzburg, when Joseph decided he needed a carol for Christmas Eve services. He gave the poem to his friend Franz Xavier Gruber who wrote the melody in a few hours. It was composed for the guitar which was Joseph’s favorite instrument. It is the most famous Christmas carol of all time.
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentleman – was first published in William Sandy’s “Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern” in 1833. The author is unknown. Most people sing and interpret this song as God Rest Ye, Merry Gentleman thinking it means for merry fellows to rest. The rest wasn’t intended to mean lie down but to keep as you are, to stay merry. Rest ye merry means to remain peacefully content and so the true meaning of the song is hoping God will bestow this contentment on the gentleman. Even Dickens misinterpreted the comma as God Rest Ye, Merry Gentleman when he refers to it in “A Christmas Carol”. Scrooge didn’t like the carol being sung at his keyhole speaking of merriment. Bah Humbug.
What Child is This – with words written to the melody Greensleeves. It originated in Elizabethan times and is mentioned by Shakespeare in “The Merry Wives of Windsor” when it is played as traitors are hanged.
Jingle Bells was written by James Pierpont in 1857 for a Thanksgiving program at his church in Boston. Everyone liked it and so it was repeated at Christmas and it has been a Christmas song ever since.
O Little Town of Bethlehem was composed by Lewis Redner with words by Bishop Phillips Brooks in 1868. The Bishop had been to the Holy Land a few years earlier and was inspired by looking down on Bethlehem from the hills of Palestine at night.
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer – A twentieth century carol created for Montgomery Ward by Robert May. Montgomery Ward asked May to write a Christmas story to be given out to shoppers during the holidays. May was inspired by the tale of the Ugly Duckling and his own sad youth as a small, shy child and created the idea of the reindeer outcast shunned by the other reindeers because of his bright red nose. He wrote the story in rhyming couplets. It almost didn’t get published because his boss at Montgomery Ward thought that the public would view the red nose as caused by drinking. May eventually acquired the copyright for the song and it was recorded by Gene Autry in 1949. It is the second best selling song of all time with White Christmas being the first. Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer is also a popular Christmas ornament with a festive Christmas wreath hung around his neck.
Christmas Tree Shop
Shopping with family and close relatives is one of the loved activities around the festivities of Christmas. And Christmas tree shopping is the most essential part of the preparations for the big day. Make your Christmas surroundings rich in green color and divine aroma of Christmas trees with the best among them as we provide you all required information on best Christmas Tree Shop around the world.
Every year there are millions of Christmas trees of over ten different species come in market to be sold. There is a heavy demand of real Christmas trees around the months November-December. It is always advisable to start your Christmas tree shopping spree just after the Thanksgiving Day so that you save yourself from being trapped into the competitive price ranges of the shopkeepers. Original Christmas trees can fall short of stock due to natural regional causes like insects, fire, drought etc. In such a case, you might not find the quality you are looking for if you start your shopping late.
In order to buy the best Christmas tree, you need to keep certain facts in mind. It is important to notice if the needles of the tree are stiff enough to be adorned with Christmas ornaments. Also, on shaking the tree, not more than 10-12 leaves should fall down. Make sure that the bark is strong enough to maintain the balance of the tree along with the decorations.
Christmas Tree Shop Location Around The World
Texas Organic Nursery and Christmas Tree Firm
Address- 151 FM2777
Mexia, Texas
They provide freshly cut Christmas trees and the best part is that you get a free seedling along with every purchase of a Christmas tree. This Christmas tree shop specialize in Fraser Fir, Carolina Sapphire, Leyland Cypress and Virginia Pine. You will also get hand made wreaths as well as Christmas gifts of all kinds here.
Christmas Tree Shop
Address- 1000 Boston Tpke
Shrewsbury, MA 01545
Shop in a festive environment while you enjoy the company of your friends and family members. Attractive gift items, Christmas trees and a lot more on discount to suit your budget.
Ye Old Christmas Shoppe
Address- Ye Olde Christmas Shoppe
145 Canongate
The Royal Mile
EDINBURGH
EH8 8BN
Get the best ethnic design Christmas items. These handmade products would surely remind you of the medieval Scottish world. Anything you need to make your Christmas a mesmerizing affair, you are sure to find it here.
Rockefeller Center
Address- W 49th St & 5th Ave
New York, NY 10020
The famous Christmas tree shop for masterpiece to adorn your art gallery has excellent collection of Christmas trees as well.
These were some of the famous shops to go shopping for Christmas trees this festive season. There are online provisions as well to buy Christmas trees, that will save a lot of your time and energy so that you enjoy the holidays to their fullest. So, make your own pick and decide on how to make the best of shopping this Christmas.
