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DIY Holiday Gifts : Homemade Vinegars

Here you go as promised the first of the DIY Instructions for the gifts I made on Live with Kelly and Micheal.      Various Vinegar  INGREDIENTS  • Pearl onions, peeled  • Baby carrots, peeled, greens cut off  • Cranberries  • Scallions, trimmed  • Whole peppercorns  • Vinegar (white wine, cider, red wine)  Preparing the […]

Cookie Exchange Rearranged

It was a snowy snow day and the kids were home so instead of a cookie exchange for grown up girls I decided to have a cookie making party for little girls.                              

Easy DIY Holiday Crafts

I NEED each and every one of you to PLEASE click on the link below and take a look at my appearance on  Ali Wentworth’s show The Daily Shot. She is one of my VERY best friends. But, here is the thing ,she thinks she is a better crafter then me! We compete to death […]

The best holiday quick bread ever!

So Christmas was not Christmas at our house unless we smelled cinnamon bread baking. Sometimes it was what we gave away to our neighbors as a merry merry gift . Sometimes it was something we would bring to a holiday party as a hostess gift. Sometimes it was something we would bring to school as […]

Live with Kelly and Micheal

I did it!!!!! And boy oh boy was it FUN. Everyone that works on that production is so KIND. The best part was I got to bring my Prentiss with me. Can you imagine she got to meet Nanny Mcfee and the author of Mary Poppins all in ONE? As luck would have it we […]

Christmas Lights

Colored? White? Big bulbs? Small bulbs? Subtle? Over the top? All questions that need to be answered year after year when the decorations begin to be placed. I am of the belief that you should use small colored lights on your Christmas Tree while small white lights should  be used EVERYWHERE else. Thoughts? Take a […]

15 Christmas Cookie Recipes

This Year I am gonna do it! I am going to have a Holiday Cookie Exchange …..And I am going to select at least 5 new cookie recipes to trade. Look at the 15 I have gathered and tell me which ones you like best. Or if you have a good one please let me […]

DIY Christmas Cards

Okay, so here is the thing, every single year there is a ” Best Christmas Card ” competition in our family. I know, I know it hardly seems in the spirt of the season to  turn it into a contest. However, we can not help it. My sisters are super creative and each year it […]