Are you ready for Christmas and for decorating your house for Christmas? We have started a new tradition in our house for one part of our Christmas decorating. My girls and I plan a Christmas centerpiece together. Then I get busy making it happen. Maybe as they get older they will help more with the making of things, but for now, I do most of that. This year they wanted a gingerbread house in the ... Read More about Gingerbread House {Christmas Crafts}
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Fun Family Christmas Activities Making Gingerbread Houses
Today I am excited to share with you the recipe for one of my favorite Christmas activities - making gingerbread houses. My family and I have been making these log cabin style gingerbread houses since 1976. You can read more about that here: Best Family Christmas Activities to Make Gingerbread Houses. First, let me show you our house we made this past weekend. We got together with most of our ... Read More about Fun Family Christmas Activities Making Gingerbread Houses
Best Family Christmas Activities to Make Gingerbread Houses
I'm super excited to bring you today's post. Today I'm sharing with you my one of my all time favorite Christmas Activities - making gingerbread houses! My parent's started this activity with their, then young, family in 1976. I was 5, my brother was 7. To my knowledge, not a year has passed that we have not made Gingerbread houses! Now we have moved on to another generation making ... Read More about Best Family Christmas Activities to Make Gingerbread Houses
Gingerbread Houses
This weekend we participated in my favorite holiday tradition.The house my family made. Rapunzel's tower is to the left with a pond andbonfire and beach umbrella and on the right a tire swing.This tradition started for my family back in 1976. My parents found an article in the December 1976 issue of Sunset Magazine for making log cabin style gingerbread houses. Now, if it were me, I would have ... Read More about Gingerbread Houses
Gorgeous Rose Ribbon Valentine’s Day Wreath
Are you guys ready to talk about Valentine's Day? It is less than a month away. I'm looking forward to some fun Valentine's crafts and ideas that I will be sharing with you this year. I wanted to start with a cute wreath or wall art idea that I came up with this year and which Offray sent me the ribbon to complete as well as sponsored this post. So one of the fun perks of my job, is that ... Read More about Gorgeous Rose Ribbon Valentine’s Day Wreath
Be Entertaining This Holiday Season ~ Keeping it Real
OK all you wonderful women and moms who read my blog. How are you doing? Totally feeling the stress of pulling the holidays together for your family with just a few days still to go? I wanted to take a minute to talk to you (and me) today. Let's talk about how to relieve stress and entertain for ourselves so we can enjoy the holidays. I did something drastic (yes that is a bit dramatic) yesterday ... Read More about Be Entertaining This Holiday Season ~ Keeping it Real
Merry DIY Christmas Decorations
Do you like to make DIY Christmas Decorations? I do! I'm going to guess that if you have been to my blog before, you probably knew that. ;-) I've got some cute Christmas decorations to show you today and of course I've got you covered with a tutorial so you can make your own. Yippee! I really enjoyed when I made the Summer DIY home decor letters earlier this year. I thought they were fun to ... Read More about Merry DIY Christmas Decorations
DIY Christmas Ornaments
I had this great idea to make these cute DIY Christmas ornaments. They were really a ploy to buy these cute little Christmas trees I saw at AC Moore, but I needed something to do with them...you know an excuse to buy them. So why not create a blog post and a cute craft? Ever done that before? Probably not, but I did and it didn't turn out quite like I wanted. Oh bother! The ornaments are ... Read More about DIY Christmas Ornaments
Merry Christmas!
I hope you are enjoying Christmas with loved ones and friends. I wanted to take a moment to say Merry Christmas from my family to yours! This year, because of our trip to Arizona for my Aunt's funeral, we had the opportunity to make gingerbread houses with my brother and his family. My brother and I haven't had the chance to make gingerbread houses together in over 10 years. It was nice and ... Read More about Merry Christmas!
10 Family Fun Christmas Traditions
Christmas is just a few days away. I realize that this season gets so busy for most of us. It is also a very fun time for Christmas traditions. I've got 10 great ideas for family fun during the holiday season. Some of you may know through my Facebook or Google+ pages that my Aunt was hit by a car and killed earlier this month. It was quite devastating to my whole family. It, of course, was ... Read More about 10 Family Fun Christmas Traditions