Christmas Joy of Cape Cod

12/25/2024

A well deserved vacation is in order for the big man!🏌🏽‍♂️

He never fails to deliver (except for maybe on the green) 🎅🏻

Merry Christmas to you and yours! 🎄

12/24/2024

Don’t forget your cookies for Santa tonight! Or at least a cookie ornament…just add milk! 🥛

Merry Christmas Eve! We will be open until 4pm! 🎄

12/21/2024

Special thanks to the Cape Cod Chronicle for the great holiday article in this week’s paper! Everyday IS Christmas for us, thanks to all of you!

(PS only 3 days left for the rest of you!)

SOUTH CHATHAM – For most people, the holiday season usually starts in November and ends around mid-January. For the Johnson family, owners of...

12/21/2024

Let it snow! ☃️

With Christmas less than 5 days away this is a very welcomed sight! ❄️

12/19/2024

Deck the halls with boughs of holly! Fa la la la la, la la la la!

Holly has long been a Christmas staple but do you know how this came to be? There is long list of folklore when it comes to Christmas Holly.

If you like holiday history buckle up for a quick holly history lesson! If you don’t, keep scrolling your feed. (After you like our photo of course)

Holly and the holiday season can be traced back to the Romans where it was the sacred plant of Saturn. In honor of their god of agriculture, Romans would send boughs of holly to their friends to mark the Saturnalia festival which was celebrated between December 17th-23rd.

Holly became a symbol of good luck which led to people hanging it outside of their home. If you are superstitious it is important to take your holly down by twelfth night (January 6th) or you will have bad luck!

The Celts and Druids believed holly was magical and would fend off evil spirits. The dawning of holly wreaths became tradition and was thought to ensure the return of spring.

Holly decoration soon got moved indoors as a symbol of both protection and good fortune.

Holly also came to have significant symbolism in the Christian faith. The prickly leaves represent the crown that was placed on the head of Jesus. The red berries represent the blood. The evergreen nature of holly represents eternal life.

Holly was first mentioned in Christmas caroling in the 15th century. And during the Renaissance the famous “deck the halls with boughs of holly” was sung and has been a hit ever since!

Many European Christmas traditions moved across the Atlantic with colonist which included holly as decoration in and around the home.

We fast forward to today where holly is found just about everywhere during the holiday season! The obvious holly and Christmas connection is that the green and red represents the seasons colors perfectly!

Merry Christmas!

12/17/2024

All is calm, all is bright!

Our light display will be bright every night from 4-10pm!

12/15/2024

Stroll weekend is always one of our favorites in town because that means we are that much closer to the big day!

Only 10 more days until Christmas! 🎅🏻

We are open until 5pm today. Come in and say hello!

07/19/2024

2024 Chatham Angel Fund Ornaments are HERE!!

07/05/2024

Hope everyone had an amazing 4th!! God Bless the USA!!🇺🇸

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy 4th of July!

06/03/2024

We’ve redecorated, rearranged, and restocked! Our 2024 season is officially underway!

06/03/2024

Hi Friends! Sorry for the inconvenience but we’ll be closed Monday, June 3rd. Regular hours (10-5) for the rest of the week! Only 205 days until Christmas! 🎄

05/01/2024

We are officially open for the 2024 season! 🎅🏻

Gus and Colleen have been operating Christmas Joy since 1998 and are back for their 26th year!

The shop itself has been a staple of Cape Cod for much longer than that and has been a must stop for multiple generations!

The best part of every year is welcoming in old friends that have been making the annual trip to the shop!

We are beyond excited to see everyone soon!

Only 238 more days until Christmas! 🎄

04/26/2024

We’ll be opening for the season on May 1st! 😊😊😊