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Byers-Christmas-Magazine-2013.Pdf 2013magalog-kmh.indd 1 10/15/13 1:51 PM features CHRISTMAS 2013 20 6 Snow Day Memories Poems by Caroler Fans and More! 12 German Christmas Markets 20 Gingerbread The Sweet Smell of Christmas 26 Caroler Accessories Completing your Caroler Displays 32 History of Blown Glass Ornaments 39 The Nativity Christmas Decorating Starts Here 44 www.byerschoice.com Explore our New Online Features 46 A Victorian Christmas 50 Kindles — Guardians of the Christmas Spirit 32 2013magalog-kmh.indd 2 10/15/13 1:51 PM note from joyce JOYCE BYERS Founder & Designer, Byers’ Choice Ltd. Last December, Bob and I took a short trip to Germany to visit the Christmas Markets. It had been twenty years since our last Christmas Market experience, and we planned this trip with visions of nutcrackers, gingerbread and beautiful glass ornaments dancing in our heads. The first stop was a chocolate factory in Cologne where beautiful Christmas candies, similar to those held by Byers’ Choice figurines, were made. In a quaint Bavarian town, we had a lesson in Christmas cookie baking and decorating followed by warm gingerbread Santa cookies to be enjoyed with hot chocolate and Glühwein. The charming old towns, and their magnificent cathedrals and markets decorated for the Christmas season, put the entire country into a holiday spirit. You could hear and feel “Merry Christmas” echoing from every wall. We see less and less of this in the United States today. Are we too busy to take time to enjoy the holiday season? Have we become too politically correct? I hope not. The idea of friends and neighbors congregating to share the spirit and tradition of Christmas is a very old one which goes back hundreds of years. We can’t let it die on our watch. Celebrate, congregate, and share the spirit of Christmas with one and all. Fill your home and your heart with the joy of Christmas. Invite friends to join you. Move into the streets with song and good cheer to thank God for the gifts He has given us. Be a participant in this season we call Christmas. Merry Christmas to All! www.byerschoice.com 1 2013magalog-kmh.indd 1 10/18/13 9:55 AM Favorite Christmas Carols Traditional Red Velvet Santa 2013magalog-kmh.indd 2 10/15/13 1:51 PM “Walking in a Winter Wonderland” Santa “Deck the Halls” Santa Christmas carols spread a little joy throughout the holidays. And we all have a favorite whether it is a classic or new jingle. What is your favorite Christmas carol? Do you have fond or comical memories of singing carols with your family each holiday season? Our “Deck the Halls” Display Santa is the next installment in the Santa’s Favorite Carols series. These display Carolers are larger-than-life versions of their more common counterparts. Mounted on a wooden base, they stride confidently into any scene singing with pride their favorite carols. www.byerschoice.com 3 2013magalog-kmh.indd 3 10/15/13 1:51 PM Polish Star Man, Caribou In Poland, Christmas is often called the Festival of the Star 4 BYERS’ CHOICE LTD. 215-822-6700 2013magalog-kmh.indd 4 10/15/13 1:51 PM Christmas by the sea Nautical Mrs. Claus, Nautical Santa www.byerschoice.com 5 2013magalog-kmh.indd 5 10/15/13 1:51 PM Over night, a winter storm has covered the landscape with a blanket of thick white snow. Children gleefully wake to news that school is canceled and an afternoon filled with snowball fights and sledding ensues — oh snow day memories! Left: Snow Day Kid with Sled Snow Day Kid with Snowballs LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW! Snow Day LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW! When it snows, it’s hard to resist not going out! LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW! I looked out the window - Hip! Hip! Hooray! The snow has piled up And it’s a Snow Day. For me, no books or tests That I dread - Just flying down the hill On my trusty wood sled. I’ll bundle up cozy And head out to play. School is forgotten Poem by April Kellenberger On this great Snow Day! 6 BYERS’ CHOICE LTD. 215-822-6700 Kids Skating 2013magalog-kmh.indd 6 10/15/13 1:51 PM Adults with Skis, Kids with Snowboards LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW! When it snows, it’s hard to resist not going out! LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW! One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day. Susan Orlean www.byerschoice.com 7 Kids Roasting Marshmallows 2013magalog-kmh.indd 7 10/15/13 1:51 PM Small Snowman with Lights Small Snowman with Candy Canes Snow is coming… we wait and pray, please keep us home we want to stay. We toss and turn and try to sleep, sleds and snowballs Toddler on Sled are the dreams we keep. Poem by Donna Barone A winter wonderland Snowman with Santa Hat we awake to find, Snowman with Wreath and school no longer comes to mind. We’re home to stay so let’s all play, for you never know how long it’ll stay! 8 BYERS’ CHOICE LTD. 215-822-6700 Toddler in Wagon 2013magalog-kmh.indd 8 10/15/13 1:51 PM Peeked out the frosted window, before I went to bed. Not even one flake! SNOW DAY I yearn to use my sled! . Baby it’s cold outside! Fun! As I peacefully slumbered, the town was painted white. You should have seen it. Poem by Christine Worrell What a sparkling sight! Listened to the radio, anxiously ready to hear, my school number to be called. A snow day is finally here! Hurry! Hurry! Find my mittens, find my boots. I want to make an angel. Where is my snow suit? Out the door. With a joyous pause to look around. Oh, there’s Billy and Joey Throwing snowballs like clowns! Let’s climb that big hill. And sled down super fast. I like when the cold wind hits my face--it’s a blast! Up and down that powdery hill, we sled all day. But it was getting dark, to our dismay. Quick! Make a plump man Built out of snow. Then trek back home, Tipping full branches as we go. Warmed by the crackling fire Above: Small Snowman with Skates, Small Snowman with Birdseed Ball With sweet cocoa in hand Snowman with Snow Shovel, Snowman with Birdfeeder What a fantastic day Aren’t snow days just grand! www.byerschoice.com 9 2013magalog-kmh.indd 9 10/15/13 1:51 PM Dear Santa . The tradition of writing a letter to Santa has been in practice for generations around the globe. Gretel, German Santa, Hansel GERMANY Children leave letters on their windowsills for Christkind, a winged figure dressed in white robes and a golden crown, who distributes gifts. Sometimes the letters are decorated with glue and sprinkled with sugar to make them sparkle. 10 2013magalog-kmh.indd 10 10/15/13 1:51 PM Scottish Santa Old English Santa, Old English Mrs. Claus BRITAIN Children write their letters to Father Christmas and then throw them into the fireplace so they will float up the chimney and fly to the North Pole. If the lists catch fire first, they have to rewrite them. UNITED STATES Children begin mailing their letters to Santa during the weeks leading up to Christmas. History shows that the US Post Office began receiving letters to Santa Claus more than 100 years ago! Right: Candy Cane Santas, Candy Cane Table 11 2013magalog-kmh.indd 11 10/15/13 1:51 PM Woman Selling Gingerbread, Gingerbread Market Stall, 12 BYERS’ CHOICE LTD. 215-822-6700 Girl with Gingerbread, Boy with Gingerbread 2013magalog-kmh.indd 12 10/15/13 1:51 PM Germany’s Famous Outdoor Christmas Markets Every Christmas, millions of people travel to cities across Germany to experience the magic of the German Christmas markets. For generations, craftsmen have gathered during the month of December to sell their wares to a city’s people. Each city has its own market with a unique character born of the days when only local tradesmen were permitted to attend. In the shadow of the city’s iconic cathedral, the Cologne Christmas market’s vendors lay out their wares in booths and tents packed onto the cobblestones of the old town square. Booths selling hand-made Christmas toys and ornaments nestle in next to food sellers grilling bratwurst and sweets stalls laden down with baskets of foil-wrapped treats sparkling and glittering in the lamplight. The smells of fresh-baked gingerbread and Glühwein—mulled wine, traditional Christmas market fare—fill the chilly air between the stalls. The centerpiece of the market, a giant Christmas tree—the largest in the Rhineland— towers over all but the cathedral spire, twinkling in the night. www.byerschoice.com 13 2013magalog-kmh.indd 13 10/15/13 1:51 PM The Nutcracker Painted, decorative nutcrackers got their start in Woman Selling Straw Ornaments Christmas Market Stall Saxony, in Germany, in the towns and villages of the Erzgebirge, the mountain range that today separates The Yule Goat is a Scandinavian Christmas Germany and the Czech Republic. For hundreds of tradition. Originally, he was an invisible spirit years, the native inhabitants had mined silver and tin in who would come to your home to ensure the foothills. But when the mineshafts began to run dry, you were properly preparing for the Yuletide. they turned to the only other natural resource available He later became associated with pranksters to them—the lush forests of the Erzgebirge—to earn and jokers and for a while the Goat was their living.
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