Give something special to the "naughty" people in your family with these delicious Lumps of Coal treats made with everyone's favorite cookies!A friend of mine posted a photo in our Pinterest, Posts and Pals Facebook group (please join us!) with chocolate bars labeled as … [Read more...]
Felt Christmas Cookie Ornaments
I have unintentionally posted about cookies all week long. I now deem it "Cookie Week" and will pretend that it was planned all along! Thus let it be known. However, these felt Christmas cookies wouldn't taste all that great. :) We had an ornament exchange for our homeschool … [Read more...]
5 Beautiful Christmas Cookies (and one for New Year’s Eve)
One of my favorite things about the holidays is all the baking I get to do. It really is warm here in southern California for most of the year, so I don't like to use my oven very often. But the closer we get to Christmas, the cooler the nights and mornings are, and then I get … [Read more...]
7 Ways to Countdown to Christmas
I have a little bit of a Christmas obsession. I love advent calendars. We have so many different ways to countdown to Christmas in our house, it's a bit silly. But growing up, it was always one of my favorite traditions! We didn't do the formal advent calendar with doors and … [Read more...]
Chocolate Orange Butter Cookies
I first tried the recipe for these butter cookies back when I made Strawberry Lemon Butter Cookies at the end of Summer. I just loved how easy the dough recipe was to throw together and it's a wonderful blank slate. At the time, I wrote a note to myself to try a chocolate … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Spice Cheesecake Delight
It's time for pumpkin pie! But if you're like me, you may not be a huge fan of plain old pumpkin pie. I saw this recipe two years ago on Sweet Treats and More and I really wanted to try it, but I couldn't find the Pumpkin Spice pudding flavor anywhere. This year, I … [Read more...]
Holiday Gift Ideas with Thymes Fragrances
Thanks to Thymes for sponsoring today's post! Nothing evokes nostalgia and memories like the sense of smell. I love this time of year because the kitchen is full of tantalizing aromas and the scent of fir comes wafting in from the living room. (I will never get a fake … [Read more...]
Perfectly Personal™ Christmas Cards and Easy Card Display
Thank you, Shutterfly, for sponsoring this post! All opinions and designs are 100% my own.I know that many of you are feverishly working on last minute Halloween costumes and shopping for candy...oh man...I just realized I haven't bought any candy to hand out yet! Add that … [Read more...]
50 Fantastic Side Dishes
For me, the hardest part of planning Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner is the sides. There are so many to choose from, but we often get in a rut and just make the same old thing year after year. I was listening to a podcast by Alton Brown and he said that it's just not … [Read more...]
Jared Muses: A Christmas Pirate Encounter
I have met a person who would fully satisfy all of the requirements of a TV news interviewee. (You know, the ones that come out of the woodwork after a tornado or high-speed car chase.) He dressed weird, drove a weird car, and talked all sorts of nonsensical gibberish. He was … [Read more...]
DIY Painted Christmas Ornaments: Vol. 2, Day 43
I have a love/hate relationship with today's post. You see, we decided to have an ornament exchange for our co-op's Christmas party and I was excited to try these DIY Painted Ornaments I had seen floating around Pinterest. The clear globes were so popular this year, and there … [Read more...]
Eggnog Cookies: Vol. 2, Day 42
Eggnog is the "pumpkin" of December. You know what I mean? It makes its way into recipes and all over Pinterest during the month of December, just like pumpkin does from the turning of the first leaves in Autumn. But there's a reason it's so popular: IT'S YUMMY. I don't like … [Read more...]