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Christmas Remembrance Gifts

Christmas Remembrance Gifts

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 joyous [...]

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Glass Lizards

Glass Lizards

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…

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Start a Healthy New Holiday Food Tradition

Start a Healthy New Holiday Food Tradition

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 Christmas celebrations can [...]

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Print a Last-Minute Advent Calendar

Print a Last-Minute Advent Calendar

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 page, and fire up the ol’ colour [...]

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Holiday Decorations from Recycled Sweaters

Holiday Decorations from Recycled Sweaters

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 unconventional material [...]

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