| Most of us have enjoyed having our own | | | | socks or stockings for a Christmas stocking, but |
| Christmas stocking, an empty sock or shaped bag | | | | today specially-created stockings are used. Stores |
| that we hang up on Christmas Eve so that Santa | | | | carry an almost unlimited variety of styles and |
| Claus can fill it with small toys, candy, fruit, coins, | | | | sizes. Many families make their own and put |
| and other small gifts. These are called stocking | | | | names on to make sure Santa will know whose |
| fillers or stuffers. Tradition claims that a child who | | | | stocking is whose. A perfect gift for Christmas is |
| has misbehaved during the year will only receive | | | | a personalized Christmas stocking! |
| lumps of coal in his/her stocking. Usually Christmas | | | | Three Ways To Personalize A Christmas Stocking |
| stockings are "hung by the chimney with care," | | | | Each personalized Christmas stocking should have |
| but if a fireplace chimney is not available, the | | | | the owner's name or initials on it. You can |
| Christmas stockings may be hung anywhere. | | | | needlepoint a monogram, sew on store-bought |
| Santa will find them! | | | | initials, or use a sewing machine to monogram or |
| In the beginning, children used one of their own | | | | appliqu |