11 days till Christmas

11 days till Christmas
December 14th
Movie of the day: It's a Wonderful Life
Classic. This is the most watched Christmas movie of all time. I haven't seen it in years, but this one is unforgettable. It answers the question we all ask at least once in our lives, “What would the world be like if I had never been born?”. I have been amazed at the extent of the popularity of this movie. It has become such a National tradition to watch that recent Christmas movies show characters watching it at Christmas time. Jimmy Stewart is amazingly awesome!

Christmas Carol of the day:
Joy to the World
http://www.christmas-carol-music.org/Lead_Sheets/JoyToTheWorld.html
Joy is a repeating theme during this holiday season. The spreading of it doubly so. This carol rings out with joyous strains to ring in the season. We must have joy and we must have it now! Repeat repeat repeat.

Christmas Trivia
(brought to you by howstuffworks.com)
What are some of the most popular Holiday World Records?
Some people love the holidays so much that they set out to break world records with their holiday cheer. For example:
The largest Christmas stocking measures 35 feet 41/2 inches long and 16 feet 5 inches wide. Created by J. Terry Osborne and friends from King William County, Virginia, it was filled with gifts to be distributed to needy children.
Jean-Guy Laquerre of Boucherville, Quebec, Canada, is an avid Father Christmas collector, with more than 13,000 items collected since 1988. The collecting bug bit when his aunt died and left him a 12-inch-high antique papier-mâché Santa Claus from the 1920s. Since then, he has added objects such as music boxes, yo-yos, photos, candleholders, and pens.
http://christmas.howstuffworks.com/games/christmas-trivia5.htm

I am an advocate for making homemade gifts. I get more enjoyment out of seeing other people open gifts from me than from opening them myself. I love the glow of happiness on people's faces and their wonder at how I made them. There are the usual scarves, purses, quilts, etc, but last year I made snow globe ornaments out of shot glasses. I made individual Christmas scenes out of Sculpey clay depicting a dragon doing something Christmas-y. One was trimming a tree and another was making a snow dragon with carrot spikes down its back, and the like. I found some cute shot glasses in different colors and a flat medallion bead that would cover the opening perfectly. I glued the baked clay scene to the medallion and put glitter in the shot glass. then carefully put E-6000 Glue around the edge of the medallion and fit it on to the shot glass (with ribbon sandwitched inbetween to hang the ornament). These were a big hit last year! I wrapped them in tissue paper and put them in decorative tins that I found at a discount store to keep them safe.
Here is the one I made for my tree. It has "T+K" on it for my boyfriend and I. <3