DLTK is a great site to bring Christmas wonder to the little ones. Home page has a link for kids that will take them to a host of fun Christmas activities such as games, puzzles, crafts, and a whole lot more that is sure to keep kids busy until Santa's arrival. There is a special link for "grown ups only" (ENTER) where parents can help Santa write the perfect Christmas letter to their child. Choose the style of letter Santa will send and then by answering a few questions you can help him personalize the letter to turn it into a very special experience for any child.

Santa's Home

Santa's Home is an animated advent calendar. By clicking on each number, your child is taken through the month of December by illustrated story one day at a time until Christmas Eve arrives.

Santa Claus Animation Fesitval

Santa Claus Christmas Animation Festival is fun for kids and kids at heart. By clicking on different parts of the picture you are able to watch Santa's reindeer in their corral as they wait for Christmas Eve to arrive or you are invited inside Santa's house to watch what goes on before the big night. Best of all your child will have free entry to The Toy Factory. Watch the busy elves as they put the finishing touches on toys and then test them before they are loaded into Santa's sleigh. There are too many activities to mention on Santa's animated site and you will have as much fun as a child checking it out.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

This How the Grinch Stole Christmas coloring book is fun and easy. Open the colouring book, and then click on a colour and click where you want the colour to go. There are three pages of well known pictures from the Christmas story How The Grinch Stole Christmas. I had lots of fun with this one!

The North Pole

This web site will give you the real time weather at The North Pole. Decorating Christmas trees, building a snowman, or touring Elfland are just a few of the many activities to enjoy at Growley's Christmas Page.

A Winter Scene

Colour a winter scene by clicking and dropping colour in the picture.

Christmas Tic Tac Toe

Play Christmas Tic Tac Toe. This game needs two players. Play the game in Santa's beard by dragging and dropping your play pieces on the game board.

Santa's Lights

This 25 piece jig saw puzzle is harder than it looks but it's lots of fun.

Match the Stockings

In this game you have to find the stockings that match. Uncover the whole playing area to see the Christmas Greeting behind it.

Gingerbread Dream

If you have ever wished you could make your very own candy house, here's your chance. Drag and drop candy and gingerbread men to create the candy house of your dreams.

Don't miss last year's 10 Great Christmas Websites for Kids of All Ages.

MyspaceJunks provides users with a wide selection of images and animations, ranging from cute and funny to apologies and condolences. You can find holiday and greetings messages such as “Happy 4th of July” or “Happy Birthday” in different styles and fonts.

PimpMyProfile

PimpMyProfile has become a popular source for html graphics codes, Myspace and Friendster layouts and provides creative options for contact tables and flash MP3 players to embed on your profile. They also offer options for pimping your phone, band marketing and finding free music.

GraphicsDB

GraphicsDB (database) have a huge picture gallery to choose from, as well as Myspace backgrounds, layouts, avatars and surveys. The website offers codes for hiding various sections of your Myspace profile, such as “Hide Online Now Icon”, “Hide Navigation Bar” and “Hide Extended Network Text”.

There are also some cute options for generating a personalized love note or love letter to send to a friend, boyfriend, girlfriend or Valentine.

MySpacePictureCodes

This site adds new content daily, and offers Myspace backgrounds, layouts, cursors, graphics codes and comments. Their graphics categories include videos, cartoons, fireworks, playboy bunny glitters, bling graphics and celebrity graphics. It's a very busy site, with tons of content to choose from.

MySpaceGeeks

MyspaceGeeks have some cool options such as Myspace tweaks and effects, and web games like tetris, air hockey and battleships. However, the site is a bit messy, and finding cool stuff can be difficult.

BlingCheese

BlingCheese has some awesome comment graphics options, ranging from congratulations, seasonal and holiday messages to religious and fun comments. For sports fans, the site boasts a selection of team name graphics codes and for music fans, a selection of rap artists, pop artists and music bands. You can also find plenty of celebrity pictures from movies and television productions.

WishAFriend

WishAFriend graphics categories include Love, Friendship, America, Zodiac and Girly options. The site offers code for Friendster, Hi5 and Myspace profile layouts and some fun options such as clocks, quizzes and quotes.

GraphicsHunt

GraphicsHunt has an attractive opening page that allows you to search by keyword for graphics. Simple keywords such as “Merry Christmas” or “Thanksgiving” leads to graphics focused specifically on your search choice. User friendly.

Thanks to these sites and others like them, you can now send your friends all sorts of messages for holidays like Halloween, Easter, Valentines Day and Christmas, 4th of July or New Years. There are many comments surrounding genres such as Goth, Emo, Rock and Pop. Many of these sites offer sweet glitter messages, and message generators to send personalized graphics to friends.

Happy hunting!

Paradoxically, Richard Dodd of the British Retail Consortium, believes that fear of economic slowdown is the reason for the sharp increase in UK internet shopping levels.

“Customers are under more pressure this year to make their money go further, which I think is behind the slowdown on the high street. Many find a better bargain online."

He also believes that the increase in online shopping is good for both consumers and retailers.

"Not only does it mean you don't have to go out into the cold, it also offers a bigger range of choice, both in terms of product and price. The whole world is suddenly opened up to shoppers. While this can be damaging for some smaller stores who don't sell their products online, for the rest it increases the size of their potential market so that anyone in the world can see and buy their products.”

The significant shift towards shopping online this Christmas has proven problematic for the postal service and courier firms who have been trying to cope with delivery of the 120 million items bought online (up from 100 million in 2006) in the run up to the festive period.

According to Consumer Direct, the Government-funded advice service, complaints about non-delivery or late arrival of goods has increased by almost one third.

Just 4 days before Christmas, Marks & Spencer sent this email out to some of its online customers:

"The recent order you placed with us is unlikely to arrive before Christmas due to our delivery carrier restrictions in reaching key geographical areas within the UK. We appreciate that if the order was needed for Christmas this will be frustrating for you and would like to apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. We now expect your order to arrive during the first week of January 2008.”

However, M&S claim that this email was sent only to a “tiny” number of customers, "More than 99 per cent of goods arrive on time," a spokesman added.

The Giftoscope has been created particularly for this purpose.

The Giftoscope is a virtual machine, helping to chose presents in off-the-wall way. You're usually asked to specify age and sex of a person you intend to make a present to and a sum of money you're going to provide for a gift.

The Giftoscope emphasizes the gift features as follows:

• Should it be a funny or a serious gift?
• What color can it be?
• How soft or hard should it be?
• How big is this thing?
• Should it be a useful thing or just a trifle?

And so on.

When doing so you shouldn't answer a lot of questions, just mark a few points you expect from a present.

As a result, you may have funny combinations, for example:

• Something blue for a kitchen, which my granny may like;
• A small pink toy for a girl of three;
• A memorable gift under $ 10;
• An original gift for a cat-lover;
• A useful thing for the grandfather;
• A funny present for a brother, who is a student;
• A big serious gift for a couple;
• A funny gift for a “Jack of all Trades”; and many others

The Giftoscope analyses its database for quite certain gifts and tries to find those you could like among them. It's approach to the given conditions is flexible enough, and due to this you can find a gift you didn't plan, but very suitable for a person you a going to present it.

You can buy a chosen gift just on-line: the Giftoscope keeps the leading Internet Shops proposals in its database. But the principle Giftoscope's task is not to sell you goods, but to help you to get off habitual stereotypes and find an interesting idea for a gift. And it solves this problem excellent.

What can I give Him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb.
If I were a Wise Man
I would do my part,
Yet what can I give Him?
Give my heart.

(Christina Georgina Rossetti)

Low Prices on Custom-Made Gifts:

1. Post a description at Etsy of the item(s) you would like handmade, and crafters compete for your business.
2. Handmade rings, necklaces, soaps, candles or other accessories starting at just $10.00:
   • Craft Mall
   • Arts E-Fest.




3. Want an old fashioned hand crafted toy? Find stuffed toys, animals, trains, and board games at Craft Toys.




4. If you want to select hand crafted beaded jewelry for your gift giving try DJ Jewels. These earrings sell for just $5.00.
   
   

Christmas on a Budget

Is your Christmas gift list larger than your budget? With over 5,000 items offered, and some as low as 80 cents, this might be right up your alley: Red Tag Promos. They have a nifty way to show you what your logo would look like on an item, so you can decide whether to personalize or not. They also offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee.

Christmas Stationery/Cards

1. Order your Christmas cards on line at Vista Print. Greeting cards made of heavy stock paper come personalized with a message of your choice, and you can even add a photo. Prices start at just $3.99 for 10. They also offer a design and copywriting service
2. Find free Christmas stationery, games, downloads, craft ideas, screen savers, coloring pages, fonts, decorations, recipes and more at The Holiday Spot.

The Top 10 Places to Shop

1. According to the Love To Know editors the top ten places to shop is found here and they claim to ship for just $2.95.

Dessert

Now that you have sent out your Christmas mail, and cards, printed up pages for the children to color, and wrapped your presents, you deserve to enjoy something special.

And what would your celebration be without the Christmas goodies? All Recipes or Better Homes and Gardens site at Better Recipes.

Have a Merry Christmas!

As I scoured the net in a whirl of yuletide fury I came across some fun holiday sites I'd like to share.

It all started as I was decorating my tree last night. As I stepped back to gaze at the finished product, I couldn't help but think how horrifically ugly it was. I was slightly dejected, but I knew if I saw a few uglier ones, mine wouldn't look so bad. So, I googled “ugly Christmas trees,” and as it turns out mine isn't so ugly after all. While googling, I came across a little gem called Ugly Christmas Lights. The site shows “those houses where the residents are likely celebrating a happy holiday but have no sense of decency in how they choose to celebrate.”

My next stop was to Elf Yourself, where you can superimpose an image of you and/or your friends and family on a group a dancing elves, and share the results with others.

Then I found my way over X-Entertainment, where I imbibed in a dose of 80's Christmas nostalgia.

About that time, I received an email from a friend who was upset at having received a Letter from Bad Santa. I attempted to console her, but I got distracted…

I was too busy watching the cast of Scrubs voice over Charlie Brown s Christmas. Hilarious!

Finally, I settled into bed as I watched one of 101 Classic Christmas Shows that are available free to watch online.

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

Another true point about Wikipedia is that some of the information posted is not true and you can not always trust the sources you go to. Google is another source you can not always trust because every thing that is posted on Google has been posted by someone just like me posting this, you don't even know if this information is true(it is).

Also if you have clicked on this page that means you probably wanted to go to Wikipedia and now that you are quite angry at me (if you have even read this far) so now you can either exit the web page or go to the actual Wikipedia and maybe using incorrect information and even if you do use this information make sure you do not plagiarize (it's illegal.)

When you are looking through the internet it is still one of the best web sites for school information but, when you are looking for more advanced information you can not trust this site and I would advise you to use a library or encyclopedias because you can know that this information is 100% true unless you are looking in the fiction section then you will know that the information is not true.

But, if you are looking for fiction you can look all over the internet or the fiction part at any library nearest you because that is the best source to find information on such things as a Greek legend or olden time battles or anything else you could probably think of and you can even make it up all by yourself.