This past Saturday, SantaCon took over New York City. For all of you unfamiliar with this classic American holiday, it's an entire day dedicated to dressing up like Santa Claus and getting a little crazy frolicking around with fellow Saint Nick look-a-likes. It's sort of like a massive Christmas flash mob that makes you feel like you're in a strange alternate universe, but it's actually totally awesome.
One of the reasons we love the holidays so much is that there are tons of ways we can celebrate. Ugly Christmas sweater parties probably rank at the top of our favorites, just because wearing the ugliest cardigan ever in the name of holiday spirit is strangely fun. So what ranks towards the bottom of our favorites list? Office parties.
Harry Styles of One Direction was feeling festive at a photo shoot this week. The 'Live While We're Young' singer posted some adorable shots to his Instagram rocking a holiday sweater and an elf costume. He really does look like one of Santa's helpers!
Remember Kim Wilde? The singer burst into the music scene in 1981 with her hit 'Kids in America.' Recently, Wilde was filmed on a train serenading the passengers — along with her brother Ricky Wilde — on her way home from a Christmas party.
Though by their own admission, they're probably on the Naughty List, the Wanted are pretty excited for Christmas. The band is celebrating the season with their fans and one another -- and occasionally Lindsay Lohan.
As a way to address this past Friday's unfortunate tragedy in Newtown, CT, 'Saturday Night Live' opened their most recent episode -- hosted by alum Martin Short -- with a heartfelt performance of the Christmas classic, 'Silent Night.'
On Christmas morning, there's nothing worse than getting a bad reaction to one of your presents. This is especially prevalent among the younger crowd, particularly those under age 12. Why? Well, the kiddos don't necessarily have an understanding of faking appreciation and re-gifting later, so it just comes off as bratty behavior.
There's something about the holidays that puts a lot of us here at TheFW into extra crafty moods. Maybe it's all those awesome Etsy decorations we so wish we could copy or just the fact we're feeling particularly festive this time of year. Either way, trying to get all creatively crafty is just plain old fun.
Let's give some props to the Animation Domination folks for this warped take on the classic holiday special 'A Charlie Brown Christmas.' This is worse than the worst-case scenario we imagined for Charlie Brown and the gang.
I am super excited to announce that "Even Santa Claus gets the cause" about donating blood at United Blood Services!
