Gimme 5

[Winterself]

5 christmas smells

1.fresh cookies
2.pumkin pie spice
3.brown sugar ham
4.pine or any kind fresh cut tree
5.cinnamon/cloves simmering


gimme 5 of your best christmas gifts ever??

[Auntie Mistletoe]

5 Best Christmas Gifts

Childhood:
Newborn Thumbelina doll and my Musical Rudolph (not the Rankin and Bass looking Rudolph), he was a rich burgundy colour with a key windup in his belly - had a hard body with a soft velvet cover.

Pre-adolescence:
Cross-Country skis - I don't recall using them all that often, but I really enjoyed waxing them for some odd reason

Adult:
Waterford's Santa and Rudolph crystal figurine
Pineapple tree ornament - because of what it stands for and who sent it
A huge collection of Chrsitmas CD's all at one time - including one from a friend from across the border

And the best of all was when I heard the news on Christmas Eve Day 2004 that my dad's cancer was gone and the medical profession was be-baffled by his recovery.




Give us 5 of your favourite things to do for fun in the summer.

[Noel+]

1. Christmas in July movies!
2. Christmas in July decorations!
3. Christmas in July shopping!
4. Christmas in July dinner!
5. Christmas in July friends!


Now please share 4 of your favorite Christmas tastes!!

[Winterself]

5 christmas tastes...

1.pumkin pie
2.turkey/stuffing
3.sugar cut out cookies
4.chocolate
5.candycane

gimme us 5 favorite christmas groups/singers

[Mrs.Claus]

5 Christmas Groups or Singers

This one is a little harder. I wish there were a group or singers that solely focus Christmas, but at the moment I don't know of any. These are a few of my favourite newer Christmas albums at the moment. Although I still have many old time favourites as well.

1. Charlotte Church
2. Bryan Duncan
3. Reliant K
4. Todd Agnew
5. Veggie Tales


Gimme 5 Christmas type/style clothing you or someone you know has.

[Auntie Mistletoe]

Gimme 5 Christmas type/style clothing

Christmas sweatshirt with polar bears and reindeer on the front
Reindeer socks
Whoville hat or Reindeer Antlers
Blinking Christmas tie
Christmas Stocking shaped earrings


Gimme 5 of the simplest crafts or gifts you've made over the years

[Noel+]

1. Hand embroidered napkins, pillowcases
2. Food: cookies, candies, breads
3. Advent calendar in felt
4. Gift baskets themed by hobby
5. IOUS: family


If you had to limit your Christmas decorating to 5 popular characters, what would they be?

[Auntie Mistletoe]

If you had to limit your Christmas decorating to 5 popular characters, what would they be?

Santa
Snowmen
Reindeer
Angels
And Nutcrackers


If you were on a desert Island for a year and could only bring five Christmas movies or specials with you which ones would you choose to bring?

[Irishsnow]

Christmas with the Cranks
Home Alone
Santa Clause the Movie
Elf
The Santa Clause

Gimme 5 things you dislike about Christmas

[Noel+]

Ahh..........
1. Scrooges
2. Working when I want the week off!
3. Over-commercialization of Christmas
4. Removing Christmas programs from schools
5. Fights over Nativity sets

So please share with us 5 items you prefer not to receive for a gift!

[Snowbelle27]

1 Anything for the home. (I like personal items for Christmas)
2 Clothing that doesn't fit
3 Cheap perfume
4 Dark chocolate ( I only like milk chocolate)
5 Something that I will never use.

Share with us 5 of your favourite things to do at Christmastime.

[Noel+]

1. local Zoolights!
2. Christmas ballet Nutcracker
3. Drive around and look at decorated houses
4. Family/friends parties
5. Buying and wrapping gifts for loved ones!

So what are your favorite 5 Christmas stories?

[Auntie Mistletoe]

5 fave. Christmas stories ...

My mom has a book called A Treasury of Santa Mouse in her downstairs powder room, I’ve read it a few times, the illustrations look vintage, but the book isn't. And the Night Before Christmas with mice featured as the main characters. (She collects mice.)

Kewtee Bear - an old book, I don’t have it now, but I remember parts of it. Might have been my cousin's book, she was older than me.

The Night Before Christmas - I think our original edition was from the late early 40’s - the one I have now is a re-edition from the mid-80’s. I'm pretty sure I can still remember the first time it was read to us around the Christmas tree before our Christmas Eve guests arrived.

The Polar Express - didn't have my own copy, but remember reading it to my young cousins in the early 80's and I liked it. One of them found it too long and fell asleep.

I also enjoyed Little House in the Big Wood, but I don't know if it's really considered a Christmas book - Laura talked about Chirstmas time when all her cousins would come, the dances, and all the hard work that had to be done to ensure survival in the wintertime. Christmas is talked about in her reflections. (The writer in me, likes that one.)

Give us 5 of your favourite treats to leave for Santa (and or his reindeer).

[Noel+]

1. Cookies for Santa
2. Chocolate milk for Santa
3. Carrots/greens for the Reindeer
4. Crackers & Cheese for flight in the sleigh
5. Nuts for the Reinder to munch in flight!


Your family Christmas most resembles which 5 movies?

[Auntie Mistletoe]

Your family Christmas most resembles which 5 movies?

That's not an easy one, but it's a good question.

Well, every family has it's Rudolph - it's not me, but we have a misfit. We love him anyway.

Yes, Virginia There is a Santa Claus - animated special - that would be me asking and everyone in my family convincing me he exists.

A Charlie Brown Christmas - my parent's first Christmas tree as a married couple.

Andy Williams Christmas Special - plenty of guests stopping by, sharing songs and stories, special voice appearance by Burl and Dorothy Ives.

T'was the Night Before Christmas - I was about three when I first remember hearing the story being read around our Christmas Tree and the ending is how we always say good night on Christmas Eve.

Gimme 5 Christmas movies with decorated Christma scenes that you would like to see in your neighbourhood during the the holidays.

[Jodie]

1 - Christmas with the Kranks (I love how all the houses are decorated)

2 - Santa Claus 3 (I would love a fireplace like Santa has)

3 - Surviving Christmas (Ben Affleck, really knows how to decorate a tree)

4 - Elf (I want to be able to decorate like Buddy the Elf)

5 - Jingle all the way (I want a reindeer for Christmas too)

Gimme 5 of your favourite Christmas decorations

[lilnoelelf]

THE STAR ON TOP OF THE TREE

The decorations my kids have made

the door hanger we made

my countdown snowman

the new lights we got for this year

gimme 5 of your favorite christmas memories

[Jodie]

There are so many more than just 5... Let me see...

1 - Christmas day at my Maternal Grandmothers with all the extended family when I was a child. She only had a 3 bedroom house but managed to get us all in there.

2 - One year I wanted a bike so bad for Christmas and it turned out that not just myself but my brother and sister and cousins and my best friend and her brother all got bikes for Christmas that year - mum still has pics of all the bikes laying and standing on the front lawn that Christmas day.

3 - We would often get the extended family together and do a picnic lunch at the beach (it is summer time here for Christmas).

4 - Both of the first Christmas's with my sons

5 - Every Christmas we have spent as a family. Family memories last forever.

Gimme 5 of the most cherished gifts you have received at Christmas

[Noel+]

1. A doll my father brought to me when he returned from service in the Marines in Korea.

2. Hand-made, and hand embroidered linens from my Gramma.

3. A pair of earrings given to me by my kids.

4. BOOKS!!! from Dad, my brother, and Mom

5. Christmas ornaments to replace our cherished heritage

Now please share with us 5 of your favorite ways to wrap a Christmas gift!

[Jodie]

1 - In a gift box with a big ribbon to keep the precious gift inside (no peeking)

2 - with brown paper and some gum nuts as the decoration

3 - Childrens artwork makes for great wrapping paper

4 - In a gift bag

5 - Using some beautiful wrapping paper with lots of ribbons and bows.

Gimme 5 of your favourite Christmas Carols