There?s a definitive festive chill in the air. Carols can be heard and bright lights can be seen anywhere. It?s no other than Christmas. It?s the season to be jolly, for merrymaking, and for gift giving. If you haven?t started shopping for presents yet, it?s time to brave the cold and join the throngs of holiday shoppers searching for the perfect Christmas presents for their families and friends.

Make a Difference

Of course, it?s understandable. You?re a busy person. You have a job to do with year-end reports to submit and last minute quotas to meet. You don?t have time to go traipsing around, shopping for Christmas presents and standing in line for hours in the city?s many malls. So once again, you shop at the very last minute, grab the same items that you did last year, and wrap it up hurriedly to give to your loved ones. As far as Christmas gifts go, however, you can only get away with giving the same things over and over for so long. After all, nobody needs that many sweaters or coffee mugs.

This year, break out of the last minute shopping frenzy that you?ve gotten accustomed to. It?s never too late. A little more time and a tad bit more effort would make a difference this Christmas.

The Magic You Can Find Online

Being too busy to go Christmas shopping is no longer an excuse. In this day and age, you can shop anywhere, even from the comforts of your own home or office. With the many websites online you can go to to shop for presents, you no longer have to walk around aimlessly, searching for presents and standing in line for hours. Just a few taps on your keyboard and a few mouse clicks, you?re already Christmas shopping.

So now that you?ve discovered the joy of Christmas shopping online, be a little bit more imaginative in picking your Christmas presents. Imagine how surprised your loved ones would be when you give each of them a magic wallet. A magic wallet works just as well as a normal wallet, except it has a bit of a twist. You can put the fun and the whimsical back in what would have been a boring, run-of-the-mill present with a magic wallet.

Not Quite Like Santa

Of course, a present is not a present unless it is wrapped. You don?t have to worry. Most online places where you can buy gifts online offer a gift wrapping service for a minimal fee. You can get a magic wallet wrapped up and sent directly to any of your loved ones.

So if you?re sold on the idea of Christmas shopping online, you better start now because unlike Santa, these online gift shops can?t deliver the magic wallets in just one night. You have to give them time to spare for shipping and handling. It?s a minor setback, one that you can barely feel. But you?ll surely feel good knowing that this year you made the extra effort to give a little magic at Christmas.

Written by Ricco Richardson
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In our multi-cultural societies today the run up to Christmas is experienced in many different ways. The commercial version pioneered by Coca Cola’s magazine advertisements which established the red suited Santa Claus image, washes over us all through the TV advertisements and the decorations in the High Streets and shopping Malls. They built on and reinforced the Victorian version of Christmas celebrations which was dramatised by Charles Dickens in ‘A Christmas Carol’ which established many of the associated food and garland rituals in the public imagination - and helped Coca Cola promote their winter beverage sales. Much of this is accompanied by ’seasonal’ music in the form of carols and hymns - often coral arrangements but sometimes instrumental - especially brass bands and the dreaded sentimental Christmas pop songs.

Music is often a subtle way of getting under the radar and evoking emotional responses from our subconscious. The commercial focus on Christmas seeks to convert these feelings into purchases - sometimes in crude direct appeals to consume but often in a more indirect atmospheric ways. While the committed Christians concentrate on re-telling the Christmas story through as many media as possible, including music - using the Advent season to recharge their spiritual batteries and encourage others to join them. Their tunes and some times even the words are often hijacked by those who wish to evoke a warm hearted relaxed atmosphere for the sale of their particular goods.

Much of this activity assumes a common Christian heritage and must strike those who do not share that background very oddly, not to mention the truly seasonal issues for those in the Southern Hemisphere who celebrate Christmas in mid summer rather than the deep mid winter. There is also the rival celebration of New Year which is a predominantly secular affair with a very limited musical repertoire - mostly of Scottish origin for some reason and this eclipses Christmas in many countries. Christians adopted the pagan Winter Solstice celebrations as part of their missionary progress but those ties were loosened by the reformation and the French, American and Russian Revolutions amongst others.

The seasonal hit at Download2MP3.com is Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite with its Sugar Plum Fairy which fits neatly into the Victorian Christmas story telling context. While Debussy’s Children’s Corner with it’s ‘The Snow is Dancing’ (Northern Hemisphere Christmas/Mid Winter associations) is another favourite and forms the backbone of our Children’s Classics Collection which includes several of our shorter and lower priced recordings. Other beneficaiaries include our instrumental versions of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah and Gounod’s Ave Maria

Recordings like these are an ideal way to personalize those iPod or MP3 player gifts for a few dollars more - perhaps introducing children to the classics in an accessible, amusing and memorable way.

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Now that Christmas is over (far over!) I want to share with you all those great activities that we usually remember to do during the holidays but that are pleasant and heart warming all year round!

I was thinking in changing this site name to: Enjoy Christmas activities no matter what season it is… but that would be a long name so, let’s KISS (keep it simple & smart!).

Here we go!

One of the most pleasant moments during holiday is when I bake ginger cookies.

They are so appreciated by the family that I am usually gently asked (and threatened with isolation if I don’t agree) to make them again for the Easter reunions.

This is the recipe I use (it’s not mine, my grandma pass it to me)

Flour mixture:

3 cups all purpose flour

1/4 teaspoons salt

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

2 teaspoons ground ginger

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

Whisk together and set aside.

Butter-molasses mixture:

1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 large egg

2/3 cup dark molasses
Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the egg and molasses and beat until well combined.

Gradually add the flour mixture beating until incorporated.

wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 and a half hours. 

Before rolling out the dough preheat oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C) and place rack in center of oven.

Spread a baking sheet with butter and set aside while you roll out the dough.

Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to a thickness of about 1/4 inch.

Use a shaped cutter to cut out the cookies, or make them squared as I do!

Place the cookies very carefully onto the baking sheet with an offset spatula. Leave about 1 inch of space between cookies.

Bake for about 8 - 12 minutes depending on the size of the cookies. They are done when they are firm and the edges are just beginning to brown. 

Don’t remove the cookies from the baking sheet immediately! Wait for about 2 minutes till they are firm enough to transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

Enjoy!