DECK THE HOLIDAY'S

   This diy comes from  /lifeartcollide.blogspot.com  .  Here is another great project you can make for this Halloween holiday or for next.  These are really cool. Glittered Witch Shoe Candy Dishes How about a pair of witch shoe candy dishes! These are going to look fantastic on the treat tables filled with goodies. A few alterations to a pair of ordinary shoes, a bottle of glitter and these are yours. I dare you not to try to put them on! Start with a pair of shoes that have a bit of a witch look to them to begin with, pointy toes, high instep and thin heal. **Don't worry by the time you have finished these shoes they will have been papered over, painted and glittered banishing all traces of the ghosts who once wore them!  Use a bit of foil to shape the toe, hold it in place with masking tape. Cut shapes for the front and back from cereal box board, attach them with a glue gun. Fill the toes with scrunched pages from th

   Christmas songs and Christmas carols are an incredibly important part of Christmas. But when the season hits it is easy to become tired of the same old songs. This list is going to change that. I am using the term “alternative” simply to describe songs outside what you normally hear, rather than as a definitive genre of music. So, if you enjoy Christmas but are over listening to the same tunes, here are some others to check out. 10. A Bizarre Christmas Incident Ben Folds Five    I stumbled across a video of this song on the internet and have been unable to track down when it was recorded or what album it is on (if any). What I can tell you is that it is a wonderful song and exactly what you would expect from Ben Folds Five. A delightful yet chaotic pop tune filled with frivolity. The song tells the story of an unfortunate and lesser known incident in Christmas history when Santa got his “fat arse stuck” down the chimney. 9. Dance ‘Till We’

      Christmas celebrations in Puritan New England (1620–1850?) were culturally and legally suppressed and thus, virtually non-existent. The Puritan community found no Scriptural justification for celebrating Christmas, and associated such celebrations with paganism and idolatry. The earliest years of the Plymouth colony were troubled with non-Puritans attempting to make merry, and Governor William Bradford was forced to reprimand offenders. English laws suppressing the holiday were enacted in the Interregnum, but repealed late in the 17th century. However, the Puritan view of Christmas and its celebration had gained cultural ascendancy in New England, and Christmas celebrations continued to be discouraged despite being legal. When Christmas became a Federal holiday in 1870, the Puritan view was relaxed and late nineteenth century Americans fashioned the day into the Christmas of commercialism, liberal spirituality, and nostalgia that most Americans recognize today. The

  Found this on  www.notmartha.org  .  These little houses have so many uses and can be given away as gifts or made for that  next Christmas party. Happy holidays!! I made tiny gingerbread houses that are meant to be perched on the edge of a mug of hot chocolate. I had been thinking about those  sugar cubes that hook on the rim of a teacup  earlier this month, and I was also thinking about  3-D cookies  and how they fit together and figured it would be pretty neat to make cookies that hang on the edge of a mug. I thought I was being  so brilliant  but it only took a few seconds to discover that a flat cookie on the edge of a mug has already  been   done . So I started wondering what else I could do. At the time I was making a bunch of gingerbread recipes trying to find one that would hold up for my  partridge in a pear tree cookie , so a gingerbread house was on my mind. I made a few versions to figure out how to make one that wasn’t so top heavy that i