Dec 09 2025
Every December, Charlie Brown begins Christmas feeling exactly the way people are not supposed to feel during the holidays. He is unhappy. The decorations are everywhere, his friends are excited, Christmas cards are arriving, and everyone seems to understand how to participate in the season except him. Instead of sharing their enthusiasm, Charlie Brown looks …
Dec 08 2025
Few movies look more like Christmas than White Christmas. There are snowy Vermont landscapes, enormous decorated trees, fireplaces, elegant costumes, military reunions, romantic misunderstandings, and enough Irving Berlin songs to carry viewers through an entire December evening. Released by Paramount Pictures in 1954, White Christmas brought together Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen …
Dec 07 2025
Some of the prettiest Christmas decorations are also the simplest. Salt dough ornaments need only a few pantry ingredients, a handful of cookie cutters, and a little time in the oven, yet the finished pieces can look wonderfully timeless hanging among evergreen branches. For this version, we are keeping the design deliberately understated: classic Christmas …
Dec 06 2025
Handmade Christmas ornaments do not have to be complicated to look special. This little felt candy cane uses just a few inexpensive materials, but the combination of snowy white felt, bright red stitching, and narrow red ribbon gives it all the charm of an old-fashioned Christmas decoration. The design is especially appealing because it does …
Dec 05 2025
Sometimes the simplest Christmas activities are the ones everyone enjoys most. A stack of coloring pages, a box of crayons or colored pencils, and a quiet afternoon can provide a welcome break from shopping, wrapping, baking, traveling, and everything else that seems to fill December. This collection includes ten very different Christmas coloring designs, ranging …
Dec 03 2025
Christmas music can fill a house beautifully without anyone singing a word. Instrumental holiday albums are especially useful during the moments when Christmas music should create atmosphere rather than command attention. Piano can accompany an evening of gift wrapping. Jazz works beautifully during dinner. Acoustic guitar feels at home beside a fireplace, while orchestral and …
Dec 02 2025
A simple cardboard tube can become a surprisingly adorable Christmas decoration with a little brown thread, a bright red pom-pom, two googly eyes, and a pair of tiny twig antlers. This toilet paper roll reindeer craft is based on a wonderfully rustic design that uses brown embroidery thread wrapped around the cardboard tube instead of …
Dec 01 2025
Christmas is one of the easiest times of year to have a little more fun with your manicure. Red and green suddenly feel completely at home together, glitter becomes almost mandatory, and tiny snowflakes, candy canes, Christmas trees, and reindeer can transform an otherwise simple set of nails into something unmistakably festive. The best Christmas …
Nov 30 2025
The Christmas tree is often the centerpiece of holiday decorating, but there is no single right way to decorate one. Some trees are covered with ornaments collected over decades, while others follow a carefully coordinated color palette. One family may love traditional red and gold, another may prefer snowy whites and silvers, and someone else …
Nov 30 2025
There is something especially beautiful about Christmas decorations made from ordinary natural materials. A few oranges, pinecones, and a length of twine can become a warm, rustic garland that looks lovely against evergreen branches, across a mantel, around a window, or woven through a Christmas tree. Dried orange slices are particularly striking because light passes …
