Old Fashioned Christmas

It's easy to add a touch of old fashioned decoration with a Balsam Fir Wreath. This double-faced wreath is decorated with cones and berries. It comes to you straight from the Adirondacks with the full fragrance of real balsam fir. Great for indoor or outdoor decorating.

Some Old Fashioned Ribbon Candy Christmas Ornaments can help give an old fashioned look to your Christmas tree. Each set comes with six ornaments designed to look like two different varieties of old fashioned ribbon candy. Three of the ornaments are red with white stripes and three are pink with white stripes. Each plastic Ornament comes ready to hang on a clear cord.

These Christmas Bubble Lights may not be exactly like the ones introduced in the 1940's, but they remind me of ones I would see ever so often when I was a child. They were rare, and going out of style, but I always liked them better than regular Christmas bulb lights used at the time. There was just something magical about seeing the lights bubbling away on the branches.

Miniature Victorian Jeweled Christmas Ornaments like these give a classic look to any Christmas tree. The club pack is twelve gift-boxed sets with four ornaments in each set, forty-eight individual miniature ornaments measuring one and a half inches high, each with a gold colored cord to hang by.

To help set ourselves in the mood of an old fashioned Christmas, we might read Christmas stories like those found in A Treasury of Old-Fashioned Christmas Stories, or dig even deeper into the History, Legends & Folklore Of Christmas to learn more about common traditions a find out why we do what we do to celebrate Christmas.

The colors, the music even the food are important, this book even includes recipes for many traditional foods popular during the Christmas season. We could learn more about Christmas trees, and other plants used for decorations during the holidays, such as mistletoe, holly and ivy. What is wassailing, why do we hang stockings, and other traditions are explored along with tips and ideas for gifts.

One of the most popular stories of Christmas, besides the Bible, is Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and the 1951 movie starring Alastair Sim, originally released as Scrooge, is perhaps the most familiar film version of the story. The film expands on the story by detailing Scrooge's rise as a prominent businessman who was corrupted by a greedy new mentor that had lured him away from the benevolent Mr. Fezziwig. When that new mentor, who does not appear at all in Dickens's original story, is discovered to be an embezzler, the opportunistic Scrooge and Marley offer to compensate the company's losses on the condition that they receive control of the company, giving birth to Scrooge and Marley. A Christmas Carol (Ultimate Collector's Edition) includes audio commentary by Marcus Hearn and George Cole, a short bio of George Mintner, the film's executive producer, a mini-bio of Dickens, the colorized version of the film, cast bios, original trailers, and an optional narration for the blind.

My favorite version of the story is the 1984 version starring George C. Scott. "A new powerful presentation of the most loved ghost story of all time!" This version pulls us into a richly painted world, and brings new life to the story. It remains one of the most beloved adaptations of A Christmas Carol

In 1999, after many years of performing his one man version of A Christmas Carol in which he portrayed all 40-plus characters himself, Patrick Stewart starred as Scrooge for a new film version of the story with updated special effects not available for previous versions. Still, as good as the effects are, it the powerful performance of Stewart and the other actors which make this another "Must See" retelling of A Christmas Carol