DECK THE HOLIDAY'S

   This comes from  www.chroniclebooks.com  .  Save a deer make one out of cardboard and paper. I thing this is a real cool tutorial.  You could even make it more Christmasy by using some sort of holiday wrapping paper. Oh Dear, Deer Head Excerpted from Dorm Decor (available May 2009) For the animal lover, activist, or simply anyone with a sense of humor, this faux buck will make any dorm-room dweller proud. Hang a scarf or hat on his antlers, keeping floors free and clear, or use him as witty wall art. YOU’LL NEED: Deer templates 1 20″ x 30″ piece (3/16″-thick) foam core 1 6″ x 7″ piece (1/2″-thick) foam core 60″ length (30″-wide) wrapping paper 1 6″ x 7″ piece of contrasting paper Craft knife Cutting board Spray adhesive Picture-frame hanging wire Awl Make the pieces 1. Using the deer templates: From the 3/16″ thick foam core, cut: 2 deer heads 1 deer body 1 deer nose 1 deer antler From the 1/2″ thick foam core, cut: 1 mounting board Cover

   The traditional song for bringing in the new year in most English speaking countries is " Auld Lang Syne ". The song is well known and sung at the stroke of midnight as the new year is ushered in. The words were passed down orally and written down in 1788 by Scottish poet Robert Burns. Robert Burns is usually given credit for the poem, but some lyrics appear to have been taken from an earlier poem by James Watson. The phrase "Auld Lang Syne" is also used in similar poems by Robert Ayton (1570-1638), Allan Ramsay (1686-1757), and James Watson (1711) as well as older folk songs predating Burns.    It soon became traditional in Scotland and the British Isles for the folk song "Auld Lang Syne" to be sung to commemorate the beginning of the New Year. As the people from that area of the world emigrated to other places and to the United States, they brought the tradition with them and it became an American tradition. Although the song is widely know

The History of Up Helly Aa     Up Helly Aa is a relatively modern festival. There is some evidence that people in rural Shetland celebrated the 24th day after Christmas as "Antonsmas" or "Up Helly Night", but there is no evidence that their cousins in Lerwick did the same. The emergence of Yuletide and New Year's festivities in the town seems to post date the Napoleonic Wars, when soldiers and sailors came home with rowdy habits and a taste for firearms. Early years     On an old Christmas eve in 1824, a visiting Methodist missionary wrote in his diary that "the whole town was in an uproar, from 12 o'clock last night until late this night blowing of horns, beating of drums, tinkling of old tin kettles, firing of guns, shouting, bawling, fiddling, fifeing, drinking, and fighting. This was the state of the town all the night...the street was as thronged with people as any fair I ever saw in England". As Lerwick grew in siz