Many people look forward to Black Friday, I however look forward to December 26th, the day Christmas goes on sale! I have made it a habit to go shopping early the day after Christmas. It is a great way to stock up on all your Christmas goodies for next year.
Over the years I have purchased [...]
While I was touring all the beautiful homes for the Christmas Tour of Homes, I read several posts about families who decorated Jesse Trees during the Christmas season. I’ll admit I felt a little ignorant having never heard of a Jesse Tree before, so I did a little more research about the tradition, and I [...]
I love cookies. And I love baking. And I love a good competition. Perhaps this is why I am still fired up from my friend Karen’s cookie exchange.
This is a guest post from Sherry who blogs at Lamp Unto My Feet and a Light Unto My Path.
Last year was our first year back in the states after being in Japan for 4 years. I was always having to buy gifts to send back as homemade goodies just don’t stand up too [...]
Mom’s Toolbox has an absolutely fantastic post about making your own advent calendar. I assure you, this post is a must see!
Tiffanie at Three Peas in a Pod blogs about how to make some adorable star, skate and stocking ornaments for your tree.
Laura Legend blogs about Christmas traditions from around the world. This is a [...]
The following is a guest post from Kate who blogs about healthy and frugal cooking at Kate’s Kitchen.
‘Tis the season for sparkling lights, tinsel, garland, Christmas trees, and bulbs of all sizes and shapes. Decorating our house for Christmas is one of my favorites; our tiny home becomes filled with lots of creative decorations that [...]
I have committed myself to keeping this Christmas as stress free as possible. Our December challenge here at Happy To Be At Home is about having a frugal AND fabulous Christmas. The frugal part is easy for me so I am going to really focus on making this year fabulous.
The easiest way for me to [...]
Gift wrap can get pretty expensive, pretty quickly, especially if you have a large number of gifts to wrap at Christmas time. So if you want to save a little money on gift wrap, put a creative, personal touch touch to some of your gifts, or wrap a little “greener” this Christmas, here are just [...]
These ornaments look so beautiful and easy. Check them out over at Cupcakes and Crinoline.
Neutral Dwelling has a beautiful and inspiring compilation of front doors decorated for Christmas. I’ve never done much to decorate our front door for Christmas, but now I really want to.
Turn yourself, your kids, your pets into Christmas elves over at [...]
Beyond letting our kids open a single gift on Christmas Eve, our family doesn’t really have any other regular traditions during the Christmas season. It’s sad, but true.
Of course we go to church, talk about the real meaning of Christmas, and exchange gifts with each other. But as a family we haven’t really developed any [...]
Like Mother, Like Daughter. We are a family who live in Central Massachusetts. My husband is a Boston Irish Catholic from a big family. His upbringing was smack dab in the middle of respectable Catholic America, not untinged by 60s unrest.
I am about as different from him as you can get: I’m an only child, my parents are divorced, my father was an immigrant from Egypt, I was raised on the cutting edge of the feminist/relativist/sexual self-fulfillment/diversity revolution. My upbringing was smack dab in the middle of 70s hippie snotty know-it-all America, not untinged by anomie.
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