Christmas Cookie Exchange ~ Free Printables
Are you planning a Christmas Cookie Exchange this year? Every year, the week of December 4th to December 11th is designated as Cookie Exchange week and while I don’t have a community here in Florida to do a formal Cookie Exchange with, I did decide to go ahead and pretend that I did. So if […]
Dear Santa Letters ~ FREE Printables
So this year we are going to try something new, we are going to write a Dear Santa letter. While Carson may only be three, he understands the concept of Santa and Christmas. For the last few months, when he has wanted something at the store, we have been using the “well we will ask […]
12 DIY and Crafty Christmas Ornaments
Besides my need to create all my Christmas ornaments by hand this year, I know I am not the only one who doesn’t want to spend a bunch of money on their Christmas Tree this year. So for the week of 12 Christmas helps, we have found a dozen Easy and Adorable DIY Christmas Ornaments. […]
12 Saturdays to Christmas, So Here’s a Dozen ways to Make Christmas Easier
Can you believe that we are only 12 Saturdays away from Christmas?!?!? This seems far to close. Where has the year gone? Since I am making everything homemade (hopefully 90% up-cycled and recycled), I am really starting to stress about the time left to get everything done! Yes, I did start my Organizing Christmas Planner, […]
12 Christmas Stocking Patterns and Ideas
Every year (well almost every year) we have had a tradition of making new Christmas Stockings. This year, I am going to sew new stockings for each of the kids, and I have started to search through patterns. I have found some super simple patterns, and I have found some extremely complicated ones. But I […]
12 Clever Ways to Wrap Christmas Presents
I am always looking for new ways to wrap presents, especially Christmas presents. When all the kids were little, I would try to make things easy on myself and wrap each child’s present in a wrapping paper that was just for them. Then as they got older and started trying to guess what was what, […]
12 Christmas Cookie Recipes
I am ALWAYS looking for new Christmas Cookie Recipes. I am hoping that this year, I can even find a Christmas Cookie Exchange to be a part of, but since we live in a predominately tourist area, I am not holding my breath. But I will baking Christmas Cookies, and LOTS of them this year. […]
Organizing Your Christmas, Don’t get behind {Organization Challenge Day 18}
For today’s Organization Challenge, I am going to dive into Christmas. Every year I hear myself say, I am going to be all done long before Christmas, and every year I am up until 2am finishing the last of wrapping and sadly last year, I was even hitting up the only 24 hour WalGreens in […]
Nightmare Before Christmas 20th Anniversary Give Away
Hey everyone, I know how much you love a contest, so we joined in with some other bloggers and websites, and thought that three of you might like to win a fun prize to celebrate Nightmare Before Christmas turning 20! You could win one of these two bags or the extra large coffee cup. Good […]
Up-Cycle Old Cereal Boxes into Christmas Tree Ornaments
Again, we are making every ornament for our Christmas tree this year by hand, since everything is still in storage back in Omaha. So I was getting ready to throw out some cereal boxes and was like, hmmm I wonder what I can make from this….and came up with this fun little hanging ornament. It […]