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So if you need more DIY Christmas gift ideas or just want a fun Christmas craft, give these homemade ornaments and baubles a try. They're exactly what your tree needs this holiday season.
Stacks of buttons, glued together in a Christmas tree shape, make an adorable ornament idea. Use only one color per tree, like @buttonlovers did, or switch it up by using all different colors in each.
One noted Christmas ornament authority is Clara Johnson Scroggins who has written extensively on the topic and has one of the largest private collections of Christmas ornaments. [11] In 1996, the ornament industry generated $2.4 billion in total annual sales, an increase of 25% over the previous year.
In the Christmas of 1864, there was a Christmas tree put up in the Ladies Saloon in the Royal Victoria Hotel for the respectable children of the neighbourhood. The tree was ornamented with gifts for the children who formed a circle about it and sang the song "Oats and Beans". The gifts were later given to the children in the name of Santa Claus ...
Dried fruit is widely used by the confectionery, baking, and sweets industries. Food manufacturing plants use dried fruits in various sauces, soups, marinades, garnishes, puddings, and food for infants and children. As ingredients in prepared food, dried fruit juices, purées, and pastes impart sensory and functional characteristics to recipes:
Candy apples (or toffee apples in Commonwealth English) are whole apples covered in a sugar candy coating, with a stick inserted as a handle. These are a common treat at fall festivals in Western culture in the Northern Hemisphere , such as Halloween and Guy Fawkes Night , because these festivals occur in the wake of annual apple harvests. [ 1 ]
Many a Victorian Christmas tree was adorned with decorated cookies in the shapes of animals and gingerbread men. [2] Also during the 17th century, Dutch and German settlers introduced cookie cutters, decorative molds, and festive holiday decorations to the United States. Gingerbread was likely the first U.S.-made Christmas cookie.
Apples are the most widely grown fruit in Germany, used to prepare many dishes and beverages in German cuisine. [4] Apples were the only locally grown fruit in Germany that kept during the winter months, which made baked apples an economical choice for holiday desserts in the Christmas traditions of Germany or as a sweet main dish in cold weather.