Best Christmas Blog Christmas Decoration Idea

I have been working on some projects so the Best Christmas Blog has been AWOL for a few days. But I’m back now with some Christmas decoration ideas from one the most well loved artist, Thomas Kinkade.

There are some beautiful decorative items that are sure to liven up your home this Christmas. Check them out below.



Thomas Kinkade Village Christmas Artificial Tabletop Christmas Tree by The Bradford Exchange


Thomas Kinkade Crystal Snowman Figurine Featuring Light-Up Village And Animated Train by The Bradford Exchange


Thomas Kinkade Sleigh Bells Christmas Tree Ornaments by The Ashton-Drake Galleries


Thomas Kinkade Jingle Bells Illuminated Musical Christmas Snow globe by The Bradford Exchange

So there you have it. Why not brighten up your home with some Thomas Kinkade Christmas decorations.

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Best Christmas Blog Gift Idea No.3 - World of Warcraft: Cataclys

Everybody knows a video gamer and a great gift for a gamer is of course a video game. Well, one of the most anticipated games this year is World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. The Best Christmas Blog suggests that if you get your gamer this game they’ll be indebted to you for life.

This game is scheduled for released December 7, 2010, but you can actually preorder it right now at Amazon. You can have it delivered right to your door when it is released with no waiting.

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Is going to be one of the hottest games around once it’s released so you better preorder yours now.

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Another Best Christmas Blog Gift Idea

This is another gift idea from the Best Christmas Blog. I will be doing these from time to time as Christmas draws nearer. Today’s gift idea is for the guys. Fellas one of the best gifts you can get for that special lady of yours is Jewelry.

That’s right! If you what to keep your lady’s favor for a very long time get her some Jewelry and watch her eyes light up. The best price you can get for that is at Amazon, just checkout these 10k Yellow Gold Round Diamond Stud Earrings.



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Cyber Monday Is Here!

Well today is another big sale day. It’s Cyber Monday and it’s now time to your online shopping. All online retailers will be dropping prices and making deals on shipping so now’s time to take advantage of some huge savings and as I have been saying since this year’s re-opening of The Best Christmas Blog, Amazon is the best place to get those savings.

Here are just a few of the things that you can save on.

Video Cameras like the Flip and Samsung Camcorders.

MP3 Players and accessories.

Cell Phones and accessories.

HDTVs, Audio and Home Theaters.

And of course Toys and Games.

By the way these all make great Christmas gifts too.

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A Best Christmas Blog Gift Idea

If you have a reader in your group of friends or family one of the best gifts you could possibly give them is a Kindle. The new Kindle is smaller, has built-in Wi-Fi and is cheaper then previous models.

Your reader can read their favorite book any time anywhere. The Kindle has been the best selling e-reader on Amazon for two years straight. With the better contrast of the new Kindle you can download and read your material virtually anywhere.

Looking for the perfect gift for your reader head over to Amazon and checkout the Kindle.

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Get Cyber Monday Deals At Amazon Now

Now that Black Friday is over its time to gear up for Cyber Monday. This is the day that all the online retailers drop their prices once again to get you to buy from their online shop. However you can get those deals right now on up through Cyber Monday at Amazon who are continuing their Black Friday deals on into Cyber Monday.

Yesterday I told you about the 3D TVs and Blu-Ray disc players deals, which you can still get, but checkout the deals you can get on the hottest toys for this Christmas. Your child will be happy to get one of these toys and you will be happy with the money you save.

I have put up a Squidoo Lens that features some of the Hot Toys For Christmas this year. Click the link to check that out. Also checkout my Pillow Pets - Best Pillows For Kids and my Harry Potter LEGO Video Game Guide Lenses for more toys and gaming gift ideas.

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Black Friday Deals At Amazon

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving yesterday. Well, today is the day, the biggest sale day of the year. People have actually been camped out in front stores all night. To me that’s madness when you can do Black Friday shopping online and probably save more money. One of the best places to shop online and save is Amazon.

All you have to do is checkout their 3D TVs and Blu-Ray disc players. Actually you can get a free Blu-Ray disc player and 3D starter kit when you get a qualifying Panasonic 3D TV.

If you looking for some great Black Friday deals you have to checkout Amazon.

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Shop Online For The Best Black Friday Deals

Have you heard? The word is that you can find the best “Black Friday” deals online and one of the best places online to get those deals is at Amazon. I gave you some ideas yesterday here on Best Christmas Blog on some of the general deals you can find at Amazon, but today I will give you a specific suggestion.

One of the hottest items this year has been the netbooks. These little guys have been growing in popularity and would certainly make a great Christmas gift. Well, you can take advantage of the Black Friday price drop on Acer Netbooks one of top names for netbooks.

The Acer AO532h-2588 is definitely a good cheap netbook that’s under $300. It also comes loaded with Windows 7 Starter and has up a battery that will last up to 8 hours. Other features like 1GB DDR2 Memory, 160GB SATA Hard Drive, Built-In Webcam, Two Built-in Stereo Speakers and Wireless-N Wi-Fi networking capabilities makes this one great gift idea.


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The Best Christmas Blog Is With Some Black Friday Deals

Well it’s time once again to fire up the Best Christmas Blog. I am getting sort of a late start this year, but I’m starting just in time for “Black Friday” and there’s a place that’s giving some great deals. That place is Amazon. As a matter of fact you don’t have to wait until Friday to get great deals because they started early and you can get them right now.

You are going to be able to get 25% to 75% off of Toys, DVD and Blu-ray TV shows and movies, Clothes and Jewelary at Endless.com.

Don’t waste your time standing in line to get good deals. Amazon is meeting or beating other store prices and giving you an early start. These offers will go fast, but they promise to add new ones throughout the day, every day this week. So skip the long lines and go to Amazon and save some money.

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A New Year’s Greeting From The Best Christmas Blog

There’s no leftover recipe today, this will be the last will be the last post from The Best Christmas Blog for now. I just want to wish you all a---

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Christmas Leftover Recipe From The Best Christmas Blog Day 4

I know you guys have candy canes left. Well here on day four of the Christmas leftover recipes week at The Best Christmas Blog, I have something you can do with them and I’m sure you will love it.

Here’s how you can make Chocolate Candy Cane Kisses out of those leftover candy canes.

Just take 4 3-oz. chocolate bars, 2 semisweet, 1 milk and 1 white chocolate
1/2 c Crushed candy canes

Melt the 3 kinds of chocolate in 3 separate bowls. Stir half of the crushed candy into the semisweet chocolate. Reserve a bit for sprinkling; stir the remainder into the milk and white chocolates. Drop teaspoons of the semisweet onto a parchment-lined tray. Top with 1 dollop each of the milk and white chocolates. Sprinkle with crushed candy. Let harden.

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Christmas Leftover Recipe From The Best Christmas Blog Day 3

As the title says this is day three of the Christmas Leftovers week. Today here at The Best Christmas Blog, I want to bring you a dessert recipe. Cranberry sauce is like a Christmas tradition so I’m sure many of you had cranberry sauce at your Christmas dinners and may have some leftover.

Well here’s a recipe that will allow you to use up that leftover cranberry sauce. It is for Cranberry Brownie Pie. Hope you like it.

Ingredients:

* 4 (1 oz.) squares unsweetened chocolate
* 2/3 cup butter (1 stick plus 2 Tbsp.)
* 2 cups sugar
* 4 eggs
* 1-1/4 cups flour
* 1 tsp. baking powder
* 1/2 tsp. salt
* 3/4 cup heavy cream, whipped
* 3 Tbsp. powdered sugar
* 1 cup whole berry cranberry sauce
* 1/2 cup chopped pecans
* 1/3 cup hot fudge sauce

Preparation:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 10" springform pan and an 8x8" square pan and set aside. Melt unsweetened chocolate and butter together in a heavy saucepan over low heat, stirring frequently until blended and smooth. Remove from heat; beat in the sugar and eggs until smooth. Add flour, baking powder and salt and mix well.

Spread half of the batter in a greased 10" springform pan, and the other in a greased 8x8" square pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes, until just set. Don't overbake these! If they are underbaked a bit, that's just fine. The springform pan brownies will probably bake faster than the square pan brownies because they will be thinner, so check frequently. Cool both completely.

Cut the brownies in the 8" square pan into cubes. In large bowl, beat cream with powdered sugar until stiff; fold in cranberry sauce. Spoon half of this mixture over the springform pan brownies. Top with half of the brownie cubes and half of the pecans. Repeat layers. Drizzle with hot fudge sauce. Chill for a few hours in the refrigerator, then cut into wedges. 12 servings

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Christmas Leftover Recipe From The Best Christmas Blog Day 2

For the rest of this week The Best Christmas Blog will be bringing you Christmas leftover recipes. I hope these recipes will get you out of the leftover humdrum.

Yesterday was for those who had leftover ham. Today’s recipe is for those that have leftover turkey. This is a Turkey Mornay recipe. Enjoy

Ingredients:

* 1 (16-ounce) jar four cheese Alfredo sauce
* 1 cup shredded Gruyere or Swiss cheese
* 2-3 cups sliced cooked turkey or chicken
* 5 English muffins, split with fork and toasted
* 3 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
* 1 Tbsp. torn fresh basil leaves or 1/2 tsp. dried basil leaves
* 1/2 cup chopped grape tomatoes

Preparation:
Place Alfredo sauce in medium saucepan. Stir in Gruyere or Swiss cheese. Cook over low heat until cheese melts, stirring frequently. Then add the turkey or chicken slices and spoon sauce over them; heat gently until sauce begins to bubble, stirring frequently.

Preheat broiler. Place the English muffins on a broiler pan and spoon the turkey slices and cheese sauce over each. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Broil 4-6" from heat source until the sauce bubbles and brown spots appear.

In small bowl combine chopped tomatoes and basil. Spoon this mixture over the hot sandwiches and serve immediately. Serves 6-8

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A Christmas Leftover Recipe From The Best Christmas Blog

Well Christmas is finally over and here at The Best Christmas Blog there is hope that you enjoyed having your friends and family over. You fixed a lot of food and not all of it was eaten so it looks like there will be some leftovers for a while. You could just heat them up and serve them to the family as is or you could do something different with those leftovers.

If you have leftover ham here’s a recipe that will delight your family. It’s a Ham Filo Roll.

Ingredients:

* 2 Tbsp. olive oil
* 1 onion, chopped
* 2 cloves garlic, minced
* 1 cup basmati rice, uncooked
* 2 cups chicken broth
* 1 cup cubed cooked ham
* 1/2 cup bottled Alfredo sauce
* 1 cup frozen baby peas, thawed OR chopped leftover asparagus
* 1/3 cup butter, melted
* 16 (9" x 14") sheets frozen filo dough, thawed
* 1-1/2 cups shredded Havarti cheese, divided

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Cook onion and garlic in the olive oil until tender. Add rice and stir to coat. Add the chicken broth, cover pan and simmer for 15-20 minutes until rice is tender. Stir in ham, Alfredo sauce, 1/2 cup of the cheese, and asparagus or peas. Set aside.

Place one filo sheet on a cookie sheet and brush with butter. Layer seven more filo over the first sheet, brushing each with butter. Spread half of the rice and ham mixture over one-third of the stacked filo on the 14" side, leaving a 1 inch border on three sides. Cover with the half of the remaining cheese.

Begin to roll up the filo, starting with the long end. You'll only be able to roll the dough over one and a half times; that's okay. Using two spatulas, place on a RIMMED cookie sheet (the butter will melt and make a mess in your oven if you don't used a rimmed sheet). Brush with butter and cut a few slits in the filo roll. Repeat with remaining filo, butter, and filling to make two rolls.

At this point you can cover the rolls tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate up to 8 hours. Add another 8-13 minutes to the baking time if the rolls are baked directly from the refrigerator.

Bake for 25 to 35 minutes until the rolls are browned and crisp. Let it stand for 10 minutes before cutting each roll into thirds for serving. The filling is hot! Serves 4-6

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A Holiday Greeting From The Best Christmas Blog

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

The Best Christmas Blog Brings You Free Christmas Music

Just in time for Christmas The Best Christmas Blog presents free Christmas music. Okay the Christmas music isn’t here, but I will tell you where you can get the music. At All Things Christmas you’ll find popular Christmas songs along with their lyrics.

The songs are in midi format and play they are clicked on, but if you right click them and choose “Save Target As” in Internet Explorer or “Save Link As” if you’re using FireFox you can download the songs to your computer. You can play the songs in Windows Media Player. You can copy the lyrics in notepad, print them out and sing along with the music, it’s fun for the whole family.

Head over to All Things Christmas and have some Christmas caroling fun.

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The Best Christmas Blog Last Christmas Kids Activity Of 2009

In a couple of days Christmas will be here and The Best Christmas Blog have its last Christmas activities ideas for your kids, this time it’s Christmas crafts. At Amazing Moms there are crafts that will fill your home with the holiday spirit.

There are crafts like making a clay pot Reindeer candy holder and jingle bell snowflake ornament. There are a bunch of crafts that you and your kids can do leading up to and on Christmas day. So head on over to Amazing Moms and find the fun.

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The Best Christmas Blog Christmas Gift Ideas

With Christmas just a few days away this will be the last Christmas gift idea from The Best Christmas Blog this year so I'm going to give a few of them for those last minute shoppers. As you may know Amazon has about the best prices you will find on the Internet. So I am going to show you some of the most popular items people are looking for as gift items.

The Kindle reading device is becoming the popular reading device for people that like to read on the go. If you know someone who loves reading Kindle Wireless Reading Device sure would make a great Christmas gift.

The V-Tube MP3-WMA player is the perfect gift for your music lover or someone likes to listen to music while exercising. It holds 2GBs of data and plays both MP3 and WMA audio formats. This device functions as USB Flash Drive, and has a built-in USB connector. This is great gift for the price.

Here is something any kid would enjoy (as matter of fact I would enjoy this). The Crayola Glow Dome brings drawings to life with the illusion of animation. This toy will keep your kids not only busy for days, but happy as well.

All of these items would make great Christmas gifts for a wide range of people. I hope you find something here that you want to give someone.

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Yet Another Unusual Christmas Recipe At The Best Christmas Blog

This week's unusual Christmas recipe here at The Best Christmas Blog is for Christmas breakfast strata. This is an easy egg and sausage strata that you make the night before you can pop it in the oven then open presents and you can have after all the gifts are unwrapped. Enjoy this Christmas breakfast recipe.

Ingredients

* 1 lb. (500 g) sausage meat, any kind
* 1 onion, chopped
* 1 loaf egg or other hearty bread, sliced (day old is fine)
* 4 cups (1 L) shredded cheese, any kind (a mixture is fine)
* 5 eggs, beaten
* 3 cups (750 mL) milk
* 1 tbsp. (15 mL) Dijon mustard
* 1 tsp. (5 mL) salt
* 1/2 tsp. (1 mL) ground cayenne pepper
* 2 medium tomatoes, sliced
* 1/3 cup (75 mL) grated Parmesan cheese

Cooking Instructions

1. Grease a 9x13-inch (23x 33-cm) baking dish.
2. Remove the sausage meat from the casing into a skillet. Add onions and cook over medium heat, stirring, until the sausage is lightly browned and the onions are softened. Set aside.
3. Place a layer of bread slices into the prepared baking dish, cutting them so that they cover the bottom completely. Sprinkle with half of the cooked sausage mixture, then one-third of the shredded cheese. Now add a second layer of bread slices, the remaining sausage mixture, and another one-third of the shredded cheese. Finally, add a third layer of bread and all the remaining shredded cheese.
4. In a bowl, beat together eggs, milk, mustard, salt and cayenne. Pour over the layers in the baking dish and cover with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 6 hours or overnight.
5. When you're ready to cook, remove the plastic, arrange the tomato slices on top and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Bake at 350 degrees F (180 degrees C) for 50 to 60 minutes, until puffed in the middle and a knife poked into it comes out clean.

Serves 4 to 6

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Here's another Best Christmas Blog gift idea. Today I have something for the musician in your life how about this Fender Starcaster Electric Guitar Pack with Amp and Accessories this Candy Apple Red can be had for as low as $173.95. Now that is a great price considering all you get.

This would great for that beginner guitarist as it comes with everything they will need to get started playing including an instructional DVD. So make that future guitar star happy with the Fender Starcaster Electric Guitar Pack from Amazon.com.

Christmas Freebies Day At The Best Christmas Blog

It's another Christmas freebies day at The Best Christmas Blog and today our freebie is a free Elf pattern for recycling a light bulb into a Christmas Elf. First of all here is where you can get your free pattern, Click Here.

Now here are the instructions on how to create you Christmas Elf.

Supply List:

~ One burned out light bulb
~ acrylic craft paint in white, medium green, dark green, brown, red, white, flesh tone and gold
~ paint brushes
~ 2 green chenille stems or small amount of green felt to make a hat
~ rubbing alcohol
~ brass bell for hat trim
~ hot glue or craft glue
~ free printable elf pattern

Instructions:

1. Clean the light bulb thoroughly with rubbing alcohol to help the paint adhere to the glass.

2. Paint the bulb in a base coat of white, let dry, and repeat.

3. Using our free printable elf pattern as a guide, use a pencil to sketch the elf freehand onto the bulb. Use the photo to help position the top and the bottom of the pattern, and to help with the following painting instructions:

4. Paint the face, arms, and legs in flesh tone.

5. Paint the tunic sleeves, a line just below the elf's chin, and his outside pant legs in medium green.

6. Paint the tunic body in dark green as shown. Paint the lightbulb screw top in dark green as well.

7. Add a circlet of white at each ankle and outline the shoes in white. Also outline the bow tie in white.

8. Paint inside of bow tie and shoes in red, and when dry add white lace lines to the shoes and polka dots to the tie.

9. Use the dark green to add creases to the pant legs in circular sweeps to suggest folds in the material and to highlight the jagged edges and folds of the tunic sleeves.

10. In narrow lines, using a fine brush and brown paint, add the hand details with fingers, and paint in the face. Add a small amount of red to accent the mouth. Fill in the eye shapes with white, and add round brown irises. Accent each iris with a dot of white to add sparkle to the eyes. Paint in brown hair.

11. Using gold metallic paint, dot in two gold buttons on the tunic, and paint the remainder of the bulb in gold.

12. Wind the chenille stems around the screw top, leaving enough length on the end to form the top of the elf's hat, which hangs to one side. Use hot glue or craft glue to secure. You could also make a simple felt hat to use instead of the chenille stems. Whatever your choice, glue a circle of thread to the back of the hat to hang your Christmas elf lightbulb ornament from the tree. Finish by gluing a brass bell to the hat.

I hope you enjoy this. Have Fun!

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