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Christmas is coming. As the holiday approaches, it’s time to get into the true Christmas spirit, decorating your personal desktop and adding some Christmas flavour to your recent designs or weblogs. And to decorate them accordingly, you might want to use some nice icons, wallpapers or even change your Worpdress-blog to a new Christmas theme.

We’ve selected high quality Christmas icons, and Christmas Wordpress themes. You might know some of them, but hopefully not all of them. Not all listed freebies can be used for commercial projects, however you can use all of them in your private projects of for you personal purposes. Please read the disclaimers carefully before using icons – they’re changing from time to time.

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Christmas Icons

Christmas Icons
A set of 20 high-quality icons. Mac, Win. Png.

The Real Christmas RSS Icons
12 icons and 3 different backgrounds.

Christmas Social Icons
The “Christmas Social Bookmark Icons”, a collection of 17 freeware icons in iPhone-like style, includes icons for Blinklist, BlogMarks, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Feeds, Flickr, Furl, Magnolia, Mister-Wong, Netvibes, Newsvine, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Ta-Da List, Technorati and You Tube. All icons are sized from 512X512 to 16X16 pixels.

iPod Christmas Icons
4 iPod icons of Christmas, 2 for white iPod, 2 for black iPod. Available for Linux, Mac, Win.

Winter Holiday Icons
Free Christmas icons.

Iconka.com Icon Sets
A number of icon sets free for personal use. Mostly .ico and .png. And mostly for Mac and Win.

Christmas Icons
12 “cartoonish” Christmas icons.

Christmas Icons
Cartoonish Christmas iconspack, 4x png, 4x ico.

Christmas Holiday Icons Pack
49 icons in various formats: GIF, PNG, ICO (favicon purpose), and vector EPS (print purpose). It is free. You can use them for any purpose — commercial or personal. Also 16×16px versions are available (mini-icons).

Christmas Icon set
BMP, PNG, GIF and ICO formats. 8bit and 32bit colours. Normal, Hot and Disabled states. Sizes ranging from 16×16 pixels all the way to a huge 256×256 pixels. Packed in a Windows-based installer

Christmas Icons
Free Christmas icons.

Polar Express Icons
This collection contains individual Christmas, holiday and winter icons.

Happy Holidays
Christmas, holiday and winter icons.

Wordpress Themes

Christmas Days Wordpress Theme
The theme has been tested on WordPress 2.3.1 with Firefox, Opera, Safari and IE6/7. It validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

Iceburrg Wordpress Theme
Iceburgg is full of whites and blues, like winter itself. The theme has been crafted to meet our usual valid xhtml and css standards, and we’ve cleaned up the code as much as possible to make it the easiest we can for you to make your own edits and modifications.

Vermillon Christmas Wordpress Theme
Iceburgg is full of whites and blues, like winter itself. The theme has been crafted to meet our usual valid xhtml and css standards, and we’ve cleaned up the code as much as possible to make it the easiest we can for you to make your own edits and modifications.

Vermillon Christmas Wordpress Theme
Watch fireworks as you counting the countdown. Put new feel to your blog too with “New Year Wordpress Theme”. With a catchy header, you’ll impress your blog reader. Happy new year.

Christmas Wallpapers

• Christmas Wallpapers
  Christmas themes might not be everyone’s favourite themes, but in december they can be found everywhere. So, who knows, maybe you’d like to decorate your desktop accordingly? Let’s take a look at some Xmas specials – for your desktop or current web-project.
• Christmas Icons, Graphics, Designs
  A collection of related resources and graphics.

Further Resources

• Christmas Icons, Graphics, Designs
  A collection of related resources and graphics.