"Home stylist Cindy Cragg demonstrates simple to understand displays anyone can create!"01 December 2006History50 mins
Glistening fruit, lush foliage, glowing candles, and a touch of the unexpected. Colonial Williamsburg's holiday decorations have epitomized Christmas style for generations of Americans. Each winter, the restored 18th-century town in Williamsburg, Virginia inspires guests with its mix of simple natural elements and modern-day showmanship. Cindy Cragg, home stylist and a Williamsburg native, shows you how to bring the same look into your home in a lot less time. Cindy draws on her experience designing seasonal displays to create elegant but easy decorations anyone can do. Through eight exciting segments, discover unique ideas for doors, windows, mantels & hearths, and centerpieces. Along the way, you'll be romanced with 18th-century Christmas traditions. The possibilities are endless as Cindy combines live and faux elements with classic WILLIAMSBURG products.
To recover a silver lion ornament for singer Emma Bunton Tim travels back to the court of Henry Vlll where Anne Boleyn (Emma again) asks jester Tim to send invitations to the guests for her Christmas party.
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Vasco and his family witness a murder carried out by a local goon. Problems start brewing in their lives when this criminal starts plotting against him.
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Lucy Worsley reveals the surprising stories behind our favourite Christmas carols. From pagan rituals to religious conflicts, French dances and the First World War, carols reflect our history.
Melissa is a 15-year-old girl who loves to dance. Her parents think she is taking classes in classical ballet, but once at the dance school she devotes herself to the hip-hop dance classes.
Dakota, a young werewolf, has finally learned to control her nighttime transformations. She desperately wants to live a normal life, and to break free from her curse, she flees to hide in the city.
When a group of students manage to complete Thomas Edison's unfinished "spirit phone" that allows communication with the dead, they are brought to the spirit world by an ancient Incan priest.
Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs.
