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10. Write a holiday letter and have each person add a paragraph and picture about themselves.

9. Design a holiday centerpiece by scouring the countryside for natural greenery, grass and berries. Use a basket or container you have laying around in the garage.

8. Create Christmas wrap by adding cutouts or personal designs to large sheets of paper; make sure to add a matching card.

7. Create “gifts from your kitchen”. Use your crock pot for more convenience.

Crockpot Snack Mix

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 4 hours,
Ingredients:
3 cups thin pretzel sticks
4 cups wheat Chex cereal
4 cups cheerios cereal
12 oz. jar salted peanuts
1/2 tsp. garlic salt
1/2 tsp. celery salt
1/2 tsp. seasoned salt
1/4 cup butter, melted
1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Preparation:
Combine all ingredients in 4 to 5 quart crock pot and stir gently until well mixed and cereal, pretzels, and peanuts are coated with the butter, cheese, and spices. Cover crock pot and cook on low 3-4 hours, stirring twice during cooking. Remove lid during last half hour of cooking to let the mix dry.

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6. Design and print holiday invitations for your family’s celebration. Use EZ Invitations to create your own holiday cards.

5. Record a Christmas carol and include an audio greeting from each family member. For Christmas carol lyrics, click here.

4. Decorate your family’s computer with a customizable 3D Christmas Tree Screensaver. Get My 3D Christmas Tree Screensaver.

3. Exchange names for everyone in the family and be the Secret Santa by doing “nice” things to make that person feel special.

2. Have everyone chip in from their savings or give up a dinner out and buy a gift for a needy child. Have the family join in to take the gift to a collection box.

1. Collect gently-used toys and clothes and take them to the Goodwill. Not only will you be clearing the clutter and making room for holiday gifts, your family will be helping those less fortunate.

The Holidays can be great family time creating memories that will last through the ages.

Halloween is an excellent time for family fun. The Internet is a great resource for fun ideas for your family from creating invitations for your Halloween party to decorating your desktop with Halloween images.

Did you know? Halloween started in the U.S. as a harvest festival. Our Irish emigrants brought us the Jack o’ Lantern—originally oversized rutabagas, turnips and potatoes were hollowed out, carved into faces and illuminated with candles. In the old country on Halloween, Irish peasants would beg the rich for food. For those that refused, they would play a practical joke. In an effort to avoid being tricked, the rich would hand out cookies, candy, and fruit – a practice that morphed into trick-or-treating today.

Halloween is now the sweetest holiday of the year with over 25% of candy sold in the two months prior to Halloween in the U.S. Chocolate is the favorite sweet; Snickers tops the list of most wanted candy bars. But it is not all about “empty” calories, pumpkins originated in Mexico over 9,000 years ago; they are one of America’s oldest known vegetables and a great source of vitamin A, beta-carotene and potassium. And your family can roast the seeds for protein and iron.

How to Roast Pumpkin Seeds

1. Rinse pumpkin seeds under cold water and pick out the pulp and strings. (This is easiest just after you’ve removed the seeds from the pumpkin, before the pulp has dried.)
2. Place the pumpkin seeds in a single layer on an oiled baking sheet, stirring to coat. If you prefer, omit the oil and coat with non-stick cooking spray.
3. Sprinkle with salt and bake at 325 degrees F until toasted, about 25 minutes, checking and stirring after 10 minutes.
4. Let cool and store in an air-tight container.

Halloween’s not just for children any more over 60% of adults get into the Halloween spirit (and admit to sneaking into their children’s candy every now and then). Consumers spend $1.5 billion on Halloween costumes each year, $2.5 on Halloween decorations and crafts and over $50 million on Halloween greeting cards.

Now you can get your family in the Halloween spirit with these free, spooktacular ideas:

• Print FREE Halloween party Invitations to get the party started. Free borders, text, images and more included.
• Add Halloween clip art for a ghastly touch to all your craft projects.
• Decorate your screen with a superior 3D Halloween Screensaver.
• Turn your wallpaper into a haunted cave—complete with 3D witch, ghouls and more.
• Download FREE Halloween sound effects to get in the creepy spirit!
• Play Halloween games until the haunting begins.
• Create a greeting card with your favorite goblin’s picture. Totally adorable.

All these Halloween products are available FREE at Freeze.com.

Create lasting Halloween memories for you and your family. Quality time doesn’t have to be expensive.

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Tags: halloween, halloween ringtones, screensavers, family fun, clipart, wallpapers, invitations, freeze.com, games, sound effects

Everything you want for Halloween–a haunted graveyard and house, 3D spooks, thunderstorm and some realistic “scare factors” (that Yahoo! would not allow in our banner ads). 3D Halloween, developed exclusively by Freeze.com, is the best 3D Halloween screensaver on the Internet. Over 76 thousand users downloaded our 3D Halloween screensaver last Halloween.

Also available for Halloween:

Screensavers
3D Halloween

Classic Haunted House

Pumpkin Patch

Trick Or Treat

3D Falling Leaves

Animated Wallpapers
3D Halloween

3D Falling Leaves

Jack O’ Lanterns

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Haunted House #1

Haunted House #2

Haunted House #3

Haunted House #4

Haunted House #5

Other Halloween Ideas
Halloween Invitations
Halloween Game Pack
Halloween Clip Art
Halloween Sound Effects
Halloween Smileys

Tags: screensavers, halloween, wallpapers, animated wallpaper

You don’t need to watch David Letterman to view our Top 10 Free ScreenSavers. Millions of users have selected these screensavers from our Free ScreenSaver library so you can save the surfing. Click the title or image to go directly to the download page for each screensaver. Spice up your screen and impress friends and colleagues with rich, 3d animated graphics from our $1.5 million, superior quality content inventory.

10. 3D Lake Cabin

Hang loose at your desktop cabin and get a bird’s-eye view of the lake.

9. 3D Tropical Sunsets

Breathtaking radiant sunset—paradise.

8. 3D Halloween

Dare to enter the haunted graveyard.

7. Living 3D Dolphins

Watch the dolphin antics.

6. 3D Snowy Cottage

Unwind to the magic of accumulating snow.

5. Lightning Storm 3D

Watch as twisters intermingle with lightning and realistic thunder!

4. My 3D Christmas Tree

Decorate your desktop Christmas tree.

3. 3D Falling Leaves

Watch as Your Cares Drop Away Like the Leaves of Autumn!

2. Living 3D Waterfalls v3.0

Enjoy the enrapturing beauty of your 3D waterfalls. Now with improved 3D graphics.

and our current Number 1 screensaver is:

Living Marine Aquarium 2

Now even more realistic! Enjoy the calm serenity of your desktop aquarium.

Of course there are lots more fun and free savers to choose from. Just stop by and browse our entire library.

Tags: screensavers, free screensavers

So I went and downloaded a bunch of games from frosty games a while back.  I’m totally addicted to the fruity flip flop game. and space out! now.

You can play them online, or download them to have and play whenever.

For free games… they’re actually really pretty fun. ones you’ll want to play a hundred and one times.

Tags: games, free games, online games

Yeah, I’m a huge fan of smilies.
I have tons of IM programs… I have a myspace profile… I’m on virb.com. I also have my own blog and my own website to go along with it. I love to plaster smilies all over the place: ) and =} and so on.
…but i like it lots better when they render into cute little smilies like this .

Anyway – I’m *really* tired of the same ol’ little yellow smiling faces. I want wacky, ridiculous, off-the-wall stuff. I’d personally love to see some hot pink ones done up in a sweet vista-graphic style. Something that says *RockSTaR*.

How ’bout you?

Tags: smilies, smileys

Aaah, this reminds me of home.

Okay, just kidding.  I’m not *really* from Mars, contrary to popular belief.
But this is pretty sweet, nonetheless.

The new Amazing Universe ScreenSaver has 3D meteors, stars, asteroids, space debris, unearthly music and 7 scenes from the Milky Way.  Pretty much the whole nine yards. You’ll feel like you’ve travelled the Universe.

…or travelled back home. 

Tags: planets, freeze, screensavers, universe

As I said – perfect.

I have several instant messenger programs – ICQ, Yahoo, Windows Live Messenger, Trillian, etc.

Anyway, I like to change up my avatar (display picture) just like I like to change up my desktop wallpapers (using YourScreen). Even though I love making my own graphics, I get sick of coming up with ideas faster than I want to change out my avatar.

SO – the other day when I was browsing through the Clip Art Collection on freeze.com, I had a plan. I downloaded some of the clip art and ran it through PhotoShop – just changing the colors up on it a bit (if you have PhotoShop, just open the file and select Image/Adjustments/Hue Saturation and slide the bars around until you get a color you like). Of course this perfectly good green butterfly right here:

would have worked out just fine. However, I’m a much bigger fan of browns and pinks. So… I made it look like this:

and scaled it down a tad bit. Viola – one of a kind avatar!

Perfect! And the best part is – they’re all FREE. There are a ton – something like 673 pages worth – of this stuff. It’s completely great. They come in 3 sizes – big enough to do pretty much whatever you want with them. They even work out nicely to put up on your MySpace page.

Go get yourself some. You have no idea what you’re missing.

So…
I was watching Hogan Knows Best the other night.  The family went on vacation someplace where they got to swim with dolphins.  I always get jealous of stuff like that. 

Not only am I not married to a crazy, psychotic (but cooler than cool) ol’ professional wrestler, but I can’t say that I have ever been able to swim with dolphins either.

After I looked outside a few days ago to see the remains of huge snowpiles reduced to mucky, muddy leaf-filled piles of ice, I mosied on over to freeze.com where I found my own personal dolphins in the Living 3D Dolphins Screensaver. BEAUTIFUL. Dolphins make me giddy.

Now, of course I didn’t get to climb into the water and hitch a ride on one, but really… how would one go about such a thing in February. In Minnesota. The screensaver was perfect for me.  I didn’t have to dig out my bikini and put it on, only to be painfully reminded that I’ve been hybernating all winter long. I think the thing packed up and moved out a few months ago anyway.

Tags: screensavers, Freeze