This year, the holidays are going to be especially tough for a lot of families - so what better time to rediscover the true meaning of the season, sitting down with the kids to create new traditions of creative crafts? Here's a round-up of wonderful ideas, free patterns, and tutorials for frugal holiday decorations that you can make yourself... [read more]
As for decorating your place for Halloween on the cheap -- "Decorate your home and yard with everyday items and almost-trash, like leftover candle stubs and toilet-paper ghosts," the glossy magazines tell you. Right. Not. Who was the genius to suggest that lighted candles and paper products were a good mix? Now throw in gangs of rambling trick-or-treating kids wearing capes and robes and all manner of flammable costumes? Uh-uh.
Why send the kids out to collect Halloween treats in a tacky plastic pumpkin, when there are more attractive treat containers to be found -- like these cheerful reusable buckets…
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…
Much as I absolutely despise the kabillion pop-ups that plague the Better Homes and Gardens site, I do enjoy some of BHG's quick-and-easy holiday decorating ideas. Here, for example, asparagus…
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…
Feeling just a little surreal -- perhaps it's the effects of the Post-Tropical Storm Formerly Known as Hurricane Noel that blasted us here in Atlantic Canada last night. Whatever the…