Christmas Shopping for 2007

My mother would sew and personalize our Christmas stockings She loved to add that personal touch to our Christmas Stockings. She would actually sew a new one for each of us very year. She would find some nice Christmas material and proceed to cut out a pattern for each stocking and started to sew. She would embroider our name onto each of the stockings. Every Christmas morning, we would get up out of bed and run down to look at all of the cool christmas gifts, look at the decorations on the...Read Full Story

Have you ever thought about where this Stocking came from? It seems that most countries lay claim to this tradition, but most experts claim that the Dutch came up with this custom almost 400 years ago. Children placed their shoes next to hearth on December 5, the night mostly associated with St Nicholas. The children would fill their shoes with straw for the white horse that was carrying the gifts and for the food for St Nicholas. Stockings, pillows, or commercial Santa sacks would replace...Read Full Story

Kill or be killed. Take no prisoners. Only the strong survive. When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping. Give no quarter. Show no mercy. Are you a man or a mouse? Hey lady, watch your cart, I only have two of these and I'm really fond of them both. It's Black Friday, damn it. I'm sure I've left out some of your favorite cliches but eight is my limit for one paragraph. I'm fascinated by the concept of "Door Buster Bargains" beginning at the same time respectable degenerates are first...Read Full Story

The tradition of hanging Christmas stockings began in Germany when plain socks were hung to show Santa where to bring their gifts on Christmas Eve. At that time only small gifts or pieces of fruit filled the socks.As times went on the practice of hanging socks was replaced by hanging colorful stockings. By using larger and more colorful stockings, it was intented to make sure that Santa did not miss the stockings.Many poems and stories were written mentioning Christmas stocking of which...Read Full Story

Every Christmas morning, we would get up out of bed and run down to look at all of the cool christmas gifts, look at the decorations on the tree, and then grab our unique personalized christmas stockings and rummage through them. We would always have little Disney toys, candy, socks, and other little Christmas stocking stuffers.  I have had a Christmas Stocking since I can remember. There are  some unique and unusual stockings around these days. Our oldest son has an emmense Christmas...Read Full Story

Christmas stockings are very easy to make at home and can be used as a holiday craft project for kids. Traditionally, Christmas stockings are a hit with children who put it out on Christmas eve near the fire place so that Santa Claus can fill it with candies and other treats for them when they go to bed. It does not take a lot of time to make one, and it is much more fun this way instead of buying it from the market. So go ahead, follow the instructions below and decorate your living room...Read Full Story

With a post that I wrote a few weeks ago, I gleefully announced the return of Christmas and all that comes along with it. And while I have struggled to get myself into the Christmas spirit this year, it is clear that Christmas is back and better than ever. Further proving my point is a wonderful new item just in time for Christmas called "Elf on the Shelf." With this product, a strange new Christmas tradition is born for parents everywhere.If you're all about threatening and frightening your...Read Full Story

Every Christmas morning, we would get up out of bed and run down to look at all of the cool christmas gifts, look at the decorations on the tree, and then grab our unique personalized christmas stockings and rummage through them. We would always have little Disney toys, candy, socks, and other little Christmas stocking stuffers.  I have had a Christmas Stocking since I can remember. There are  some unique and unusual stockings around these days. Our oldest son has an emmense Christmas...Read Full Story

Every Christmas morning, we would get up out of bed and run down to look at all of the cool christmas gifts, look at the decorations on the tree, and then grab our unique personalized christmas stockings and rummage through them. We would always have little Disney toys, candy, socks, and other little Christmas stocking stuffers.  I have had a Christmas Stocking since I can remember. There are  some unique and unusual stockings around these days. Our oldest son has an emmense Christmas...Read Full Story

Every Christmas morning, we would get up out of bed and run down to look at all of the cool christmas gifts, look at the decorations on the tree, and then grab our unique personalized christmas stockings and rummage through them. We would always have little Disney toys, candy, socks, and other little Christmas stocking stuffers.  I have had a Christmas Stocking since I can remember. There are  some unique and unusual stockings around these days. Our oldest son has an emmense Christmas...Read Full Story