THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS CAPER (2007)

 

Cate Dove (Shannon Doherty) lives and works in New York, a world away from her dull hometown, Comfort, Connecticut and she earns her living as a cat burglar.

But when her sister Savannah Cooper (Sonya Salomaa) and brother-in-law Brian (David Lewis) get marooned on their island vacation, they call upon Cate, very much as a last resort, to look after their two kids, pre-teen Annie Cooper (Natasha Calis) and teenager Parker Cooper (Josh Hayden).

Cate is really reluctant to help out, and would have refused but for one thing, she needed to get out of New York after a job went wrong and she was double crossed by her partner and mentor Clive Henry (Conrad Coates) and she was caught on the surveillance camera, so her face is suddenly being splashed all over the media as well as the papers in Manhattan so heading to her hometown to lay low over the Christmas holiday seemed like a good idea.

Her plan on arriving in Comfort was to let her nephew and niece do their own thing while she spent most of her time devising ways to even the score with her partner in crime Clive.

But of course it’s a Christmas movie so that was never going to happen, so she gets roped into being their taxi service and meets up with former boyfriend-turned-sheriff, Hank (Ty Olsson), but is a romantic interlude with an officer of the law the wisest move when there is an APB out for her, but Cate's heart begins to change, and she feels more warmly toward the town's serenity and values, and the heart wants what the heart wants, and anything is possible in a Christmas RomCom.

WHEN WE SIT DOWN TO CHRISTMAS DINNER

 

When we sit down to Christmas dinner

I’m relieved and feel incredibly grateful

Because annoying relatives speak less

During the meal as their mouths are full

TREE SKIRTS

 

Christmas tree skirts or Rugs for the base of the Christmas tree have become an indispensable addition to the 21st century festive decor but originally, they had a much more practical use and were meant to protect floors or carpets against the dripping of candle wax.
The first commercial tree skirts or rugs depicted Santa Claus driving a sleigh drawn by his eight reindeer.

FESTIVE FACT # 01

 

In 1979 the Christingle Service was for the first time introduced into

Barbados at the St Ambrose Church.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL OF ICE (2017)

When Emma Parkers (Taylor Cole) finds out that her beloved ice-sculpting contest, an integral part of her hometown's Christmas festival, has been cancelled, she is galvanised into action and is determined to keep it going.

Emma draws on all her years of law school in the hope they would pay off, in addition she enlists sponsors and artists for a Christmas Contest, and among the latter was Nick Claiborne (Damon Runyan), who runs a Christmas Tree business and is something of an ice artisan.

But he isn’t interested in competing, but Emma was desperate to have him involved in the contest.

But when he considered what she'd managed to accomplish, he found he was impressed enough to get involved.

As Emma and Nick work together, she realizes there's more to life than musty books and legal briefs, and similarly Nick is invigorated and transformed by Emma's can-do spirit he signs on as a teammate.

They might even have a shot at winning the very special Christmas contest she’s been promoting, or was there something more for them?

FESTIVE FACT # 13

 

Franklin Pierce was the fourteenth President of the United States (1853-1857) and in 1856 he was the first President to decorate the first White House Christmas tree.

WHAT’S TOP OF YOUR CHRISTMAS LIST?

“What’s top of your Christmas list?”

I was asked right out of the blue

“The loveliest girl ever” I replied

And on Christmas Eve I met you