by Bianca GubalkeThe Gift of Listening
During this precious yet in many ways loud and commercialized time between Christmas and New Year, find some moments where you give yourself space – ideally in Nature – and… listen.

Become totally still.
Quietly observe the energy and beauty that surround you; open yourself as they slowly embrace and flow into [...]

by Bianca GubalkeHappy Christmas 2009
Here’s my personal way of thanking YOU for a great year online and wishing YOU a peaceful, happy Christmas 2009!

Happy Christmas 2009
Take some time off, pamper your loved ones, go out and breath Nature to rejoice and refuel.

Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.

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1 Christmas Cards Personalized
1.1 Personalized Christmas Card by Toni Leuenberger, Switzerland
1.2 Christmas Card Personalized by Laetitia Paris, France
1.3 Christmas Header personalized by Ute Schaedler, Germany
1.4 Christmas Card Personalized by Bianca Gubalke, South Africa
1.5 Personalized Christmas Card Hacks

Christmas Cards Personalized
The yearly returning Christmas Season offers a nice opportunity to create [...]

By Zo NicholasChristmas 2009 images
Photos taken locally in the U.K. over the past few days.  Will we still have a white Christmas in 2009? or will all the snow be gone by then. Temperatures hover around freezing so its pretty cold all the time so there is a big chance that we may. See the gallery for [...]

By Zo NicholasChristmas 2009
The flurries of snow turned into a blizzard overnight, but here by this morning we saw the snow slowly melting as the temperature increased to just over freezing. In our corner of the world we often escape the worst of the weather, however elsewhere heavy snowfalls in the U.K. have caused travel chaos, forced [...]

Ute SchaedlerChristmas Song – Silent Night, Holy Night

1. Silent night! Holy night!
All is calm, all is bright.
Round yon Virgin Mother and Child.
Holy Infant, so tender and mild.
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace.
2. Silent night! Holy night!
Shepherds quake at the sight!
Glories stream from heaven afar;
Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia!
Christ, the Savior, is born!
Christ, the Savior, is [...]

By Zo NicholasChristmas 2009
It is just over a week to Christmas and we have had our first flurries of snow yesterday. Nothing settling as yet but who knows, maybe we will have an old fashioned white Christmas this year.
It’s such a busy time of year for most of us with all the festive preparations. Presents, cards, [...]

Ute Schaedler
Christmas Decoration Ideas for Kids

Are you a parent?  If so, there is a good chance that you already know just how much kids love the holidays.  That is why you may want to think about letting your children help you decorate for Christmas.  In fact, in addition to just letting them help you hang [...]

Ute Schaedler
Fancy Tales Related to Christmas

A lot of what is widely regarded as true about Christmas or held as a tradition cannot or has not been verified, or, has changed through the years.
Even Christmas Day itself, Dec. 25, has been questioned about whether that is the exact day on which Jesus was born. Skeptics have [...]

Ute SchaedlerChristmas Song – Christmas Tree

Christmas Tree
1. O Christmas Tree, O Christmas tree,
How lovely are your branches!
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas tree,
How lovely are your branches!
In beauty green will always grow
Through summer sun and winter snow.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
How lovely are your branches!
2. O Christmas Tree, O Christmas tree,
You are the tree most [...]

Ute SchaedlerInteresting Facts About Christmas

It is an accepted fact that the Christmas tree tradition is one that was brought to the shores of America by German immigrants who continued a practice that was popular in their former homeland.
Today, a Christmas tree, even a miniature one, is present in just about every home at Christmas. It [...]

Ute SchaedlerDecorating for Christmas: Decorating Your Whole Home

Are you looking forward to Christmas this year?  If so, there is a good chance that you cannot wait until it arrives. While it is difficult, in fact impossible, to make Christmas come any sooner, there are ways that you can bring the Christmas spirit into your house [...]

Ute SchaedlerChristmas Song  – Jingle Bells

Jingle Bells
1. Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh
O’re the fields we go
Laughing all the way.
Bells on bob-tail ring
Making spirits bright
What joy it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight.

Chorus:
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way,
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh, O
Jingle bells, [...]

Ute Schaedler
Christmas in the United States and Canada

Many of the celebrations in the United States that are associated  with Christmas were traditions brought by German and English  immigrants.
Along with the well-known and practiced tradition of a  brightly decorated Christmas tree, other traditions brought by these  immigrants include Advent calendars, Christmas greeting cards,  gingerbread houses and [...]

Ute SchaedlerEating Heartily but Consciously During Christmas Season

During the Christmas season, summer and its body-conscious state of mind are distant memories. Hearty indulgence in the many foods shared at Christmas therefore doesn’t produce the same feelings of guilt. Nevertheless, its not a pleasant thought to start the New Year carrying any extra pounds. So why [...]

Ute SchaedlerAll About Rudolph and Santa’s Other Reindeers

Maybe it’s the undeniable alliterative appeal of Rudolph the Red-Nosed reindeer that makes him the most known or popular of all Santa’s nine flying reindeers.  It certainly doesn’t seem as easy to come up with a similar catchy description for the others – Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, [...]