#Santa stocking

[christmasxmas]

[spottedlizardprints]

Personalised Santa Sack.

Add your Child's Name.

All Sacks are Hand printed

.This beautiful Christmas Sack is perfect to put all your presents and gifts in. You can have any name of your choice printed perfectly onto this sack. . Made from Linen, this sack comes with Red Drawstrings to keep the sack closed. . The high quality of the Sack means they can be re-used for many years.

Large 49 x 67 cm Small 29 x 39 cm

Note: On some products, the display image is an A.I and Colours may vary slightly. Due to the way different materials react to heat and lighting, colours may vary slightly.

[cheekinpermission]

I'm only *checks notes* five days overdue. Whoopsie.

[guineapiggies]

Via fluffypotatogram

[horny4hetfield]

Hey Santa! I've been a very good girl! Please see above for my wish list!!

[christmasxmas]

[adventuresofalgy]

It was Christmas Eve at last, and Algy was safe at home again!

He couldn't have been more happy, or more excited, for his assistants had given him a fluffy stocking to hang up, in the hope that Father Christmas might visit while he slept, and his magic pumpkin, which was beginning to look quite shrivelled, had turned into a beautiful pumpkin candle once more.

Algy settled down on the soft needles of a Christmas tree with his stocking hanging by his side, and did his best to go to sleep, but he found it awfully difficult… He was just too excited! So he tried reciting that most famous of all Christmas poems, written 200 years ago. He hoped that if he recited it very carefully and very slowly it might help to make him drowsy, for he knew that Santa Claus never visited folk who were wide awake:

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse: The stockings were hung by the chimney with care In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap, When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below, When, what to my wondering eyes did appear, But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer, With a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick. More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name: “Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall! Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!” As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky; So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

[Algy is of course reciting the opening verses of the early 19th century poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, which is more often called The Night Before Christmas. The poem was first published anonymously in 1823 and its author is uncertain.]

[damthosefandoms]

darry taking extra shifts after thanksgiving to be able to afford christmas presents for his brothers and the gang vs soda taking extra shifts after thanksgiving to justify putting up christmas lights to bring some holiday cheer to their neighborhood even though it would blow their electric bill through the roof

[jeffhirsch]

Get Ready for the Real Santa Claus Rally

Headed down to Wall Street yesterday to pave the way for Santa. As Yale Hirsch’s now famous line states: “If Santa Claus should fail to call, bears may come to Broad and Wall.”

This rather typical early December seasonal weakness sets up the Santa Claus Rally well. The Street has been buzzing about the Santa Claus Rally for three months now. Most still get it wrong. It’s not the yearend rally, the Q4 rally that runs from Halloween through January. Yes, November, December and January are the best three months of the year, but they are not the Santa Claus Rally.

Santa Claus Rally was devised by Yale Hirsch in 1972 and published in the 1973 Stock Trader’s Almanac. The “Santa Claus Rally” is the last 5 trading days of the year plus the first 2 of New Year. This year it begins on the open on December 24 and lasts until the second trading day of 2025, January 3. Average S&P 500 gains over this seven trading-day range since 1969 are a respectable 1.3%.

Failure to have a Santa Claus Rally tends to precede bear markets or times when stocks could be purchased at lower prices later in the year. Down SCRs were followed by flat years in 1994, 2005 and 2015, two nasty bear markets in 2000 and 2008 and a mild bear that ended in February 2016.

This is the first leg of our January Indicator Trifecta (2025 STA p 20) which includes the “First Five Days” (2025 STA p 16) and the full month “January Barometer” (2025 STA p 18), also invented and named by Yale Hirsch in 1972. This January Trifecta helps us affirm or readjust our outlook. When we hit this Trifecta and all three are positive S&P is up 90.6% of the time with an average gain of 17.7%.”

Based upon the outcome of these three indicators, we may adjust our outlook for the balance of Q1 and 2025. Until then, we remain bullish as this is the seasonal favorable period for stocks. Valuations are a concern, but economic data is holding up, the Fed is cutting interest rates, and the market continues to track seasonal trends and patterns rather closely.”

Stay tuned for more on the rest of my January Indicator Trifecta and sign up for my newsletter to get my official readings and analysis. And get the 2025 Stock Trader’s Almanac as a free bonus. https://stocktradersalmanac.com/LandingPages/get-Almanac-for-free.aspx

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[dailysanta]

realising theres been a chronic lack of horrible sibling content on this blog. post-nevada shenanigans

[clonerightsagenda]

Tis the season for me to get into arguments about whether Christmas trees are secular

[christmasxmas]

[lemonarts]

hi i have been doing this art challenge. my plan is doing it in 3 groups of 8, but y'kno. we'll see how that works out. made myself a palette of 8 colours. experimenting with a more fully shaded version and flatter version. here's the first bunch, we got

bell

coal

stocking

bauble

"snowflake" (it's the sun, i'm southern hemisphere, i'm trying to make every explicitly wintery one summery instead)

present (plus a bonus second present because i wasn't feeling confident on the first version)

santa hat

candle

here's the second version of the present, plus the full size (16x16) sprites

(second set) (third set)