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December 12 Beautiful Christmas Advent Poster

DECEMBER 1 INSPIRATIONAL CHRISTMAS ADVENT CALENDAR

CHECK DAILY FOR AN INSPIRATIONAL CHRISTMAS ADVENT POSTER. 

There are 24 posters, one for each day leading up to Christmas.

An Advent calendar is a special calendar which is used to count or celebrate the days of ADVENT in anticipation of CHRISTMAS. 

Advent meaning ‘the coming’, is a month full of expectation,

anticipation and preparation for Yule/ winter solstice and Christmas

All posters are my creations ~ please feel free to copy and share.

Enjoy and Merry Christmas!

Quote by~W.T. Ellis

New Limited-Edition Holiday PRINGLES Crisps

“With more than 80 varieties of PRINGLES crisps available worldwide, we are constantly looking for innovative snack offerings,” said Angela Gusse, Associate Director PRINGLES Marketing. “This new line of holiday crisps meets consumer demand for more inventive flavors to enjoy.”

The limited holiday release with three festive flavors, include:

• Cinnamon & Sugar – Each crisp is lightly dusted with real cinnamon and sugar, making each bite a salty-sweet sensation.

• Pumpkin Pie Spice – A warm blend of cinnamon and pumpkin flavor coats every crisp, delivering the sweet and spicy feeling of autumn in every bite.

• White Chocolate Peppermint – The classic holiday blend of cool peppermint and smooth white chocolate flavors delivers unique crisp combination.

Spice up the season and spread holiday cheer 

wherever you go with the simple pop of a PRINGLES crisp top.

Hope you’re still one of the lucky people whose hand fits in the can!

Pringles and Golf Joke

What is the similarity between four-putting and eating a whole can of Holiday Pringles?

You are slightly ashamed of what you have done and worst of all you know it will happen again! 

MAGIC SANTA PERSONALIZED VIDEO

Great site for a personal

video message from Santa.

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Christmas Holidays in Space

HOLIDAYS IN SPACE

At Kennedy Space Center, visitors will be (virtually) spending the holidays in space now through New Years Day.

Santa Claus will greet guests, hear wish lists and pose for photos in Santa’s Launch Control Center, located near IMAX and the Orbit Cafe’. Kodak representatives, as elves, will snap the perfect family photo and provide prints for sale, or guests may capture the moment with their own cameras. Mrs. Claus will be on hand for some special space-themed story times for kids of all ages, including “The Cat in the Hat – There’s No Place Like Space” and “What the Moon is Like.” Guests can also hand deliver their letters to Santa.
At Santa’s Launch Control Center, Santa Claus will greet guests, hear wish lists and pose for photos between the Astronaut Encounter and Robot Scouts.

Christmas Diet Poem

Oh greed is the curse of many a maid

Munching mince pies, quaffing sweet lemonade

With never a thought about midriff bulge

She procedes without caution to over indulge

And then when the scale shows a figure quite shocking

She opens the diet book

That was stuffed in her stocking.

 Poet unknown

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! 

~Hamilton Wright Mabie

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! 

- Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1836

DECEMBER 23 ~ INSPIRATIONAL ADVENT CALENDAR ~ IVY

 CHECK DAILY FOR AN INSPIRATIONAL CHRISTMAS ADVENT POSTER.

There are 24 posters, one for each day leading up to Christmas.

An Advent calendar is a special calendar which is used to count or celebrate the days of ADVENT in anticipation of CHRISTMAS.

Advent meaning ‘the coming’, is a month full of expectation,

anticipation and preparation for Yule / winter solstice and Christmas

Please feel free to copy and share.

Enjoy and Merry Christmas!

Holly, Ivy and other greenery such as Mistletoe were originally used in pre-Christian times to help celebrate the Winter Solstice Festival and ward off evil spirits and celebrate new growth.

The colours of the Holly and Ivy, green and red are traditionally associated with Christmas.

Celtic meaning of ivy deals with:

• Growth

• Renewal

• Connection

• Friendship

• Opportunity

Evergreens have been used to decorate homes since Pagan times, when they were believed to be a symbol of eternal life. Evergreens were considered magical due to their ability to retain signs of life during winter, and producing berries like holly.
Evergreen plants, like ivy and holly, were brought into the home during the Winter Solstice – a celebration of light and rebirth. Ivy was the symbol of Bacchus – god of wine and merriment.

Ivy also represents fidelity, wedded love and friendship. Also, a sprig of ivy of white tendrils means that one is anxious to please, and symbolizes affection.
The holly was traditionally thought to be masculine (prickly and tough) and the ivy feminine (clingy and heart-shaped), bringing balance and harmony, a yin and yang, to the home – also promising fertility to the household.

It is also a symbol of vibrancy as the druids admired its bright green hue. Often, sprigs of ivy would be woven into chain necklaces or head adornments to represent clarity of thought as well as celebrate the vitality of nature surrounding them.

The ivy gets its symbolism of connections and friendships because of its propensity to interweave in growth. Ever furrowing and intertwining, the ivy is an example of the twists and turns our friendships take – but also a testimony to the long-lasting connections and bonds we form with our friends that last over the years.

Another tribute to friendship as well as the test of time is the ivy’s ability to grow in challenging environments. The ivy is incredibly durable and can withstand harsh conditions. This is symbolic of our ability to stick by our friends no matter what.

The ivy is also a symbol of survival and determination for the same reasons. It seems to be virtually indestructible and will often return after it has suffered damage or has been severely cut back. This is an example of the human spirit and the strength we all have to carry on regardless of how harrowing our setbacks may have been.

Ivy grows in the shape of a spiral. This has long been considered a sacred symbol for:

• Consciousness

• Development

• Expansion

• Rebirth

Lasly, most ivy has five-pointed leaves which makes it a symbol of protection as it signifies the harmony of the elements unified by common bonding energy.

Quotes about IVY

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. ~ Richard Burton

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper. ~ Anthony Trollope

“Here’s to holly and ivy hanging up, And to something wet in every cup” ~ anonymous toast quote

“True Friends like ivy and the wall, both stand together, and together fall.”

The Christmas Holly

The holly! the holly!  oh, twine it with hay –
Come give the holly a song;
For it helps to drive the stern winter away,
With his garment so sombre and long.

It peeps through the trees with its berries of red,
And its leaves of burnished green,
When the flowers and fruits have long been dead,
And not even the daisy is seen.
Then sing to the holly; the Christmas holly,
That hangs over peasant and king;
While we laugh and carouse ‘neath its glittering boughs,
To the Christmas holly we’ll sing.

The gale may whistle, the frost may come
To fetter the gurgling rill;
The woods may be bare, and warblers dumb,
But holly is beautiful still.
In the revel and light of princely halls
The bright holly branch is found;
And its shadow falls on the lowliest walls,
While the brimming horn goes round.

The ivy lives long, but its home must be
Where graves and ruins are spread;
There’s beauty about the cypress tree,
But it flourishes near the dead;
The laurel the warrior’s brow may wreathe,
But it tells of tears and blood;
I sing the holly, and who can breathe
Aught of that that is not good?
Then sing to the holly, the Christmas holly,
That hangs over peasant and king;
While we laugh and carouse ‘neath its glittering boughs,
To the Christmas holly we’ll sing.

Eliza Cook ( 1818-1889 )

The Holly and the Ivy Lyrics

The holly and the ivy,
When they are both full grown
Of all the trees that are in the wood
The holly bears the crown
O the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing of the choir

The Holly bears a blossom 

As white as lily flower

And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To be our sweet Saviour
O the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing of the choir

The holly bears a berry
As red as any blood
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To do poor sinners good
O the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing of the choir

The holly bears a prickle
As sharp as any thorn;
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
On Christmas Day in the morn.
O the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing of the choir

The holly bears a bark
As bitter as any gall;
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
For to redeem us all.
O the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing of the choir

The holly and the ivy
Now both are full well grown,
Of all the trees that are in the wood,
The holly bears the crown.
O the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing of the choir

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green,
That creepeth o’er ruins old!
Of right choice food are his meals, I ween,
In his cell so lone and cold.
The wall must be crumbled, the stone decayed,
To pleasure his dainty whim:
And the mouldering dust that years have made
Is a merry meal for him.
Creeping where no life is seen,
A rare old plant is the Ivy green.

Fast he stealeth on, though he wears no wings,
And a staunch old heart has he.
How closely he twineth, how tight he clings
To his friend the huge Oak Tree!
And slyly he traileth along the ground,
And his leaves he gently waves,
As he joyously hugs and crawleth round
The rich mould of dead men’s graves.
Creeping where grim death hath been,
A rare old plant is the Ivy green.

Whole ages have fled and their works decayed,
And nations have scattered been;
But the stout old Ivy shall never fade,
From its hale and hearty green.
The brave old plant, in its lonely days,
Shall fatten upon the past:
For the stateliest building man can raise
Is the Ivy’s food at last.
Creeping on where time has been,
A rare old plant is the Ivy green.

Perfect Man, Perfect Woman and Santa Claus

Once upon a time there was a Perfect Man and a Perfect woman.

After a perfect courtship they had a perfect wedding.

Their life together was, of course, perfect.

 One snowy and stormy Christmas eve, they were driving their

perfect car along a winding road

when they noticed someone on the side of the road in distress.

Being the perfect couple they stopped to help.

To their surprise, there stood Santa Claus with his huge bundle of toys.

Not wanting to disappoint any children on Christmas eve,

the perfect couple loaded Santa and his toys into their car.

Unfortunately, the storm got worse

and the perfect couple and Santa were in an accident.

Only one of them survived the accident.

Question: Who was the survivor?

The perfect woman survived the crash.

She’s the only one who existed in the first place.

Everyone knows that Santa isn’t real and there has never been a Perfect Husband.

Women stop reading now.

Men continue reading below.

So, if there was no Perfect Man and no Santa,

the woman must have been driving!

This explains why there was a car accident.

Men, continue reading below.

By the way, if you’re a woman and you are still reading,

this illustrates another point.

Some women never listen or follow directions!

Merry Christmas Kitty Style ~ Meowy Catmas From PETA

Have a meowy Catmas and a hoppy new year!