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...Now, Bethlehem will have no Christmas tree at all....
...It’s Christmas tree-buying time and I have two questions. Is having two Christmas trees ridiculous? And can you recommend places to source interesting decorations?...
...The fashion designer Anya Hindmarch has recently reopened “Anya’s Grotto”, a shop space on Chelsea’s Pont Street that she transforms into a Christmas wonderland, complete with a candy-cane forest, twinkling...
...Tiny, shiny Christmas tree treasures hold the world in miniature....
...Until 24 December, striezelmarkt.dresden.de Tallinn Christmas Market The city lays claim to being the first ever to put up a Christmas tree, in the centre of its medieval Town Hall Square in 1441....
...I love putting up a Christmas tree. Ours is now heaving with ornaments and tinsel; the poor tree, we put more and more on it until you basically can’t see it....
...For everything from Christmas-tree decorations to Nutcracker figurines, this place is a delight....
...for his book shops....
...Dear reader, For Londoners, the run-up to Christmas is filled with festive traditions....
...May these quirky handwoven creations be under my Christmas tree this year. thecolombiacollective.co.uk Botivo aperitif, £26.95 for 500mlIn an effort to ration my post-Xmas alcohol intake, I welcome a bottle...
...It will run until December 12 US: annual national Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Washington Friday First day of winter in the northern hemisphere according to the meteorological calendar Brazil...
...He shows me pictures on his phone of a white neon Christmas tree he made for a hotel lobby. It took him a month to make it, he said. In his workshop is a sign he made for the Hong Kong Tourism Board....
...A lot of charity shops have their own Ebay profiles too and will upload stuff that’s on their shop floor....
...Garth was like, “Dude, this would be amazing for your outdoor Christmas-tree party!” The best souvenirs I have brought home are pieces of other people’s plants....
...The red cedar shingles are designed to change colour at different rates according to their exposure to the sun so, like tree trunks, south- and north-facing sides have a subtly different hue....
...A dozen US retailers have already filed for bankruptcy this year, including Bed Bath & Beyond and Christmas Tree Shops....
...A sign of the times, the fastest growing brick and mortar stores in the US are discount retailers Dollar General, Dollar Tree and Five Below....
...Goad isn’t having a tree this year (she has other things on her mind, with a baby due “literally around Christmas”)....
...Christmas tree candelabra from Montes and Clark, £38 Handmade in Oaxaca from embossed tin. montesandclark.com Aria glass by Laguna~B for The Conran Shop, £99 Made in Murano, in a range of colours. conranshop.co.uk...
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...By the time you read this column, many of you — the lucky ones at least — will already have wrapped up your presents and they will be placed under a Christmas tree....
...Thousands attended the recent lighting of the Christmas tree in Manger Square and the Israeli tourist ministry expects 120,000 Christian visitors will arrive in the Holy Land over the Christmas period —...
...When I visited in December, I was told by my guide that there’s a proposal under the towering Christmas tree at least once a day during the festive period. And the food....
...and erecting an eight foot plastic tree instead....
...On Christmas Day, they decorated an acacia tree with baubles that they’d brought along, and Boston prepared to slaughter the goat and roast it over the fire....
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