{"id":8250,"date":"2015-11-29T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/?p=8250"},"modified":"2017-01-03T22:13:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T03:13:43","slug":"festive-kickstarter-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/festive-kickstarter-campaigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive Kickstarter Campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<a class=\"nounderline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" alt=\"Kickstarter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/kickstarter.png\" width=\"450\" height=\"318\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Since we elves enjoy making things at work and in our spare time, we love creative projects from other folks as well?be it new products, joyful music, or delicious food. So, it&#8217;s time once again this year to highlight some fabulous festive projects that are currently seeking funding on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter<\/a>, a website whose mission is &#8220;to help bring creative projects to life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"postsubhead\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/xmastreehugger\/the-christmas-tree-hugger-ugly-christmas-trees-no\" target=\"_blank\">The Christmas Tree Hugger<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>If you have an artificial Christmas tree, but can&#8217;t stand the green pole at the base, then the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/xmastreehugger\/the-christmas-tree-hugger-ugly-christmas-trees-no\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas Tree Hugger<\/a> is for you! The flexible hugger wraps around the pole and features a classic brown bark, white birch bark, or candy cane design.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/xmastreehugger\/the-christmas-tree-hugger-ugly-christmas-trees-no\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\"> <\/iframe>\n<p>There&#8217;s still time to get a Christmas Tree Hugger for this holiday season, so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/xmastreehugger\/the-christmas-tree-hugger-ugly-christmas-trees-no\" target=\"_blank\">back this campaign today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"postsubhead\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/427236862\/everlights-app-enabled-permanent-christmas-lights\" target=\"_blank\">EverLights &ndash; App Enabled Permanent Christmas Lights<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Permanent and weather-resistant, you can easily install <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/427236862\/everlights-app-enabled-permanent-christmas-lights\" target=\"_blank\">EverLights<\/a> once and then enjoy them for years to come. Plus, you can customize the colours and sequence of the lights using the included smartphone app. After the Christmas season, you can change the lights&#8217; colours to celebrate other holidays or even to match the colours of your favourite sports team!<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/427236862\/everlights-app-enabled-permanent-christmas-lights\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\"> <\/iframe>\n<p>Learn more about the EverLights Kickstarter campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/427236862\/everlights-app-enabled-permanent-christmas-lights\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"postsubhead\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1888425537\/help-us-fund-hark-the-new-cd-from-wintery-songs-in\" target=\"_blank\">HARK &ndash; Wintery Songs in Eleventy Part Harmony<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Christmas music always helps make the holiday season feel special, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1888425537\/help-us-fund-hark-the-new-cd-from-wintery-songs-in\" target=\"_blank\">this collaboration<\/a> by a group of female singer-songwriters and string players will definitely put you in a festive mood.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1888425537\/help-us-fund-hark-the-new-cd-from-wintery-songs-in\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\"> <\/iframe>\n<p>Rewards include digital and physical copies of the album, as well as handmade ornaments and caroling sessions, so be sure to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1888425537\/help-us-fund-hark-the-new-cd-from-wintery-songs-in\" target=\"_blank\">this campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"postsubhead\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/dancinggoatsdairy\/dancing-goats-dairy-artisan-cheese-in-coastal-new\" target=\"_blank\">Dancing Goats Dairy &ndash; Artisan Cheese in Coastal New England<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The star of one of my <a href=\"\/Kitchen\/Cookbook\/Goat-Cheese--Date-Tortas-5165\">go-to Christmas party recipes<\/a> is goat cheese, so I simply had to feature this campaign?plus the goats are just so darn cute! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/dancinggoatsdairy\/dancing-goats-dairy-artisan-cheese-in-coastal-new\" target=\"_blank\">Dancing Goats Dairy&#8217;s Kickstarter campaign<\/a> will help them expand and revamp parts of their business and farm. Did I mention that their artisan goat cheese is included with some of the rewards? Mmm? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/dancinggoatsdairy\/dancing-goats-dairy-artisan-cheese-in-coastal-new\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\"> <\/iframe>\n<p>Help out Dancing Goats Dairy, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/dancinggoatsdairy\/dancing-goats-dairy-artisan-cheese-in-coastal-new\" target=\"_blank\">back this campaign today!<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"postsubhead\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1400622367\/deck-your-walls\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deck Your Walls<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1400622367\/deck-your-walls\/\" target=\"_blank\">hand-printed tree posters<\/a> are perfect if you live in a small space and don&#8217;t have room for a Christmas tree. Simply hang the poster on the wall and decorate with stickers, markers, or paper ornaments!<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1400622367\/deck-your-walls\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\"> <\/iframe>\n<p>Get your own tree poster by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1400622367\/deck-your-walls\/\" target=\"_blank\">donating to this campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we elves enjoy making things at work and in our spare time, we love creative projects from other folks as well?be it new products, joyful music, or delicious food. So, it&#8217;s time once again this year to highlight some fabulous festive projects that are currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, a website whose mission is&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/festive-kickstarter-campaigns\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-festive-food","category-merry-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8250"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10225,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions\/10225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}