by guest on December 17, 2007
Today’s guest is DazzlinDonna, who lives up to her name with a simply dazzling personalized gift idea that combines the virtues of thrift and creativity with the kind of real meaning we seek in the holiday season. Thanks for sharing this, Donna! ~Jen
Christmas Remembrance Gifts
The holiday season is meant to be a [...]
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Elizabeth, over at the Chic Design Cafe, got me into browsing the Christmas ornaments at West Elm — Not your Grandma’s Christmas ornaments, she says, and right on!
Venetian glass lizards for the Christmas tree, anyone?
Nothing says “Happy Holidays” like an elegant reptile…
You might also like:Mermaid in GlassVictoran Blown Glass SpireGlass [...]
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Can the way you shape your family’s Christmas traditions help your kids to avoid those adult diet pitfalls? Our favourite guest foodie, Guilherme Zo’C, thinks so — and he makes a compelling point about the role of food in our holiday memories. ~ Jen
Start a Healthy New Holiday Tradition
How your [...]
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Here it is November… what, the 26th already?
And you’ve got no Advent calendar to keep the little kiddies calm through the pre-Christmas countdown?
Marilyn Scott-Waters, The Toymaker, can bail you out with her free printable Advent calendar.
Just grab the two PDF files from Marilyn’s Christmas web [...]
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A colourful wreath hand-sewn from sweater remnants gives an eco-friendly twist to a traditional holiday decoration, in one of the more imaginative recycling ideas of the season.
It reminds me a bit of those wreaths made with tied strips of plastic bags that I’ve mentioned before, but only in the sense of an [...]
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