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In fact, I've noticed a few decorating tips and tricks that seem to make the Hallmark movie magic come to life to create scenes and settings that look extra cozy, extra festive and extra Christmas-y.
RELATED: Unique Christmas Tree Ideas to Try This Year. Melanie Lissack. Gingerbread-Themed Decor. ... Retro design is back, and glitzy disco balls have become a staple of Christmas decor.
Christmas ships are boat parades held at Christmastime, typically featuring boats festooned with Christmas lights or winter/holiday decorations. In the United States in the nineteenth century, German and Irish immigrants shipped trees from Michigan and Wisconsin down to Chicago via boat to satisfy the large demand for Christmas trees . [ 1 ]
A float at Rio Carnival, 2014. A float is a decorated platform, either built on a vehicle like a truck or towed behind one, which is a component of many festive parades, such as those of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, the Carnival in São Paulo, the Carnival of Viareggio, the Maltese Carnival, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Mardi Gras in New Orleans, the Gasparilla Pirate Festival, the 500 ...
Christmas is truly creeping up on us and it might be hard to wrap our heads around the fact that we have to start decorating and buying gifts for all the special people in our lives. But alas, it ...
A rocket ship float with Santa Claus during a Christmas parade in Los Angeles, 1940. The Christmas parade is a direct descendant of late Medieval and Renaissance revivals of Roman Triumphs, which had music and banners, wagons filled with the spoils of war, and climaxed with the dux riding in a chariot, preferably drawn by two horses, and thus called the biga.
A Christmas tree inside a home, with the top of the tree containing a decoration symbolizing the Star of Bethlehem. [18]The Christmas tree was first used by German Lutherans in the 16th century, with records indicating that a Christmas tree was placed in the Cathedral of Strassburg in 1539, under the leadership of the Protestant Reformer, Martin Bucer.
Christmas time has always been special for John and Joan Reichart. In December 1970, John, back home in Indianola, Iowa, after serving in the Vietnam War as a Marine, proposed to his girlfriend ...