• Santa Claus vs. Hollywood
• Dreams Alive Magazine Updates and Opportunities

• The Newest Shops at The Emporium Mall

- Santa Claus vs. Hollywood -

Filmmaker, Ray Francis of Salt Lake City, has seen a deterioration of how Santa Claus is portrayed in films. "Our worldwide holiday figure has been turned into something less than admirable by films such as 'Bad Santa' and the soon to be released 'Santa's Slay.'", says Francis, "These movies have tainted Santa's image. Many children see these images and parents are very upset that Hollywood filmmakers are so willing to destroy the one person that children look up to and admire."

"It’s time to bring families closer together" Santa exclaims, "I also felt I needed to answer many of the children’s questions they have about Christmas. So, each night, I will take families on a different adventure."

Santa Claus and Skyro Productions have teamed up to produce "Family Time With Santa". This interactive DVD is sure to delight the whole family. Starting Dec. 13 through Christmas Eve, families will watch a different episode each night just before bedtime. Each episode ranges from six to nine minutes long for a total of 2 hours. These episodes contain Santa's favorite hobbies, following your dreams, visiting a taffy factory, ice skating, Santa and Mrs. Claus at home, taking a one horse open sleigh ride, and Santa reads some brand new stories along with many other surprises.

Parents can also go to Santa's website and download a free countdown calendar for every child. Simply type your children’s names and they are ready to countdown the nights right along with Santa Claus himself.

"Santa is amazing," stated Francis. "I never knew Santa could rollerblade, snow ski, or sing so well." According to Francis, this type of movie has never been done before. "It takes 12 nights to watch. Santa even tells children that before they can watch the next nights episode, they must have all their chores done, brush their teeth, and be ready for bed."

Santa and Skyro Productions have also decided to give a portion of the proceeds directly to a nonprofit toy company that is made up of all volunteers. "The Happy Factory", located in Cedar City, Utah, has made over 300,000 hand made toys for needy children all over the world. They are even featured in the "Family Time With Santa" movie. "I wanted to make sure that more of these toys are made for children in need. It is truly a noble and worthy cause. I also want to thank all those that have supported 'The Happy Factory' in the past and for their future contributions" exclaimed Santa.

"Family Time With Santa" DVD is now available at www.familytimewithsanta.com or by calling 1-888-55-SANTA. To learn more about the Happy Factory you may visit them at www.happyfactory.org. Start a brand new tradition with your family this year and bring Christmas back home, where it belongs.

Ray Francis and Santa Claus are available for interviews by calling 801-638-1295. Pictures for articles may be downloaded at www.familytimewithsanta.com then click on Press Release then the picture you would like to use.

- The Newest Shops at The Emporium Mall -

Shopping Online is easier and much more fun because of a very unique and attractive interface provided for all the shops featured at The Emporium Mall. Below are listings of our newest and most favorite shops. Enjoy!

aGardenPlace Visit our shops and save on fun items for Home and Garden: Save 10% on your first order in our Garden Decor Shop. Just enter 'welcome at checkout' Send premium roses, lilies and floral bouquets delivered straight from growers greenhouse.

MasterVisions Fine Decor Unique etched glass decor to set your home apart. Choose from over 100 designs by top artists - wildlife, nautical, western themes and many more. Enjoy lustrous etchings in hand-rubbed, solid hardwood mirrors, tables and coat racks.

FloorMall.com With over 11,000 floors and flooring products to choose from we are your one stop flooring shop. From prefinished to unfinished flooring we have what you are looking floors. Come visit us for Rugs, Carpet, Tile, Vinyl and laminate flooring.

Heavenly Night's Lingerie Captivate the Essence of Love, Romance and Sensuality you deserve. You will find an enticing selection of fine and exotic lingerie. We stock a variety of lingerie ranging from Sexy Costumes Erotic Vinyl's/PVC, Super Sexy Sets, Plus Size & more!

Great Priced Furniture Great Priced Furniture, your source for Bedroom, Children's, Baby, Kitchen, Living Room, Dining Room, Home Office and Furniture Clearance Sales. All furniture comes with a 30 day money back guarantee.

Big Paw Designs Unique & classic accessories for hip dogs and cool cats and pet lovers! Big Paw Designs collar charms, dog jewelry and pet lover gifts will make your pet the hippest dog or coolest cat around.

Childs Play Houses Completely customized to your individual specifications, our playhouses are delivered fully built and ready to enjoy. You'll experience both complete satisfaction and amazement when you see the exquisite workmanship.

YourBlinds.com Offering solutions to both the Do-It-YourSelf & Full Service consumer. Hunter Douglas Silhouettes, Luminettes, Alouettes, Vignettes, Trio, Cadence and more are available with our full service measuring & installation. No sales tax outside Texas.

Triple Scented Candles Extra strong triple scented jar candles, votives and tart melts. Candles that are maximum scented from top to bottom with all your favorite fragrances. Handcrafted with a special soywax blend. Giving you the best scents at affordable prices.

Uptown La-de-da Uptown La-de-da is your premier home decoration ideas store. We offer a unique selection of elegant home accent furnishings, gourmet kitchenware and gift ideas for the pampered child. We are also an exclusive CBK internet retailer.

The Art of Mexico The Art of Mexico is a superlative gallery of galleries showcasing a distillation of the best-of-the-best -- traditional and contemporary Mexican folk art -- created by some of greatest masters of Mexican folk art at the best prices.

- Dreams Alive Magazine Updates and Opportunities -

See what's new, what's exciting and what's coming up in the issues yet to come.

Updates:

• New Improved Magazine Format and Distribution
  With a 2 to 3 month span between the release of each issue of Dreams Alive Magazine, there is a substantial curve of interest in the magazine that is at a high point when an issue first releases and then gradually fades off to a much smaller, but steady rate of interest afterwards, with guaranteed spikes in interest as seasons return each year. We have made significant changes over the past five years to improve the look, feel and navigation of the magazine, and now, we have created an entirely new system of distributing the magazine.
   
  Issues will now be released in tandem with our RSS Home and Garden Articles Feeds. To ensure we get the greatest effect from this, an issue will now be released with a small series of base articles and then additional articles will be released within that issue as the weeks go by. Each article release will also be submitted through our RSS Home and Garden Articles Feed.
   
  In a nutshell, instead of releasing the entire issue all at once, each issue will now grow gradually over the term and season of the issue, taking advantage of RSS and Newsletters to help our readers focus and find items of interest. The issue will conclude with all articles intact as though presented that way in the first place, but we believe our article contributors and advertisers will gain a tremendous increase in attention and interest since each primary article will be presented on a plate for you, our readers to enjoy.
   
  We desire that Dreams Alive Magazine becomes a part of your week, not just a part of your season. It may take us an issue or two to work out some of the smaller details, but our overall goal of eliminating the time lapse between issues, will have been accomplished.
• Articles Are Easier To Find Than Ever!
  We have just concluded the creation of our Article and Author Database. Now, in addition to looking through each issue for articles, you can look at all articles from all issues that are associated with a specific category. You are bound to find many articles of interest that have been here all along...but you just couldn't find them.
   
  Another great feature is sorting the articles by Author. Now you can easily find all the articles ever written by your favorite authors...and for those of you with website content needs, the article reprint rights are clearly specified as to whether you can freely place the articles on your website as well.
   
  Visit our Articles sorted by Category.

Opportunities:

• One aspect of our magazine that often includes massive searching and time consuming modifications, is the selection and creation of our magazine cover. Since the cover is a large image, many of the images submitted to us along with articles, cannot be considered.
• We would like to encourage artists and photographers to select or create images that would be great for use as our cover and send them to us for review. Each approved and used image would include an acknowledgement and link back to the authors website or e-mail address. Since our magazine is released seasonally, we generally search for indoor, outdoor or creative abstracts of each season. You will be welcome to send as many selections as you desire, providing they follow the guidelines below
  • The image must be at least 750 pixels wide and 900 pixels tall, without having been stretched to that size. Clarity is important.
  • Since our magazine title and main topics exist on the left side of the cover, it's best if that area is not "busy" to the point where it is difficult to read. If you look at most of our cover images, you will see what we mean.
  • For images that are of different dimensions, your images will be cropped, not stretched to fit. Also, for images that are much larger than needed, we will proportionally resize them to the proper size and then crop as necessary.
  • Send all submissions in jpg, bmp, psp or tif format. If you do use JPG, do not compress more than 15%.
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