Homemade Marshmallows This holiday season, surprise neighbors and friends with homemade marshmallows! Marcie Lenick shared these gorgeous images of her homemade marshmallows. Want to try your hand at making homemade marshmallows? Marcie used Alton Brown's recipe for Homemade Marshmallows. They're really quite easy and you can flavor them with various extracts like peppermint for hot { Continue Reading }
Ornament Place Card Holders from JC's Loft Paula of JC's Loft shared this fabulous DIY holiday craft with us! As Paula said, place card holders are highly overpriced and can easily be made for much cheaper. In fact, these fabulous holiday ornament place card holders were just 12 cents to make! AMAZING! Paula found a pack of 10 ornaments at the dollar store. I too have bought these for { Continue Reading }
Black & White Snowman Holiday Table Black and white is one of my favorite color combinations so it was only natural to create a holiday table with the fun pair. I love snowmen and this fun find made a darling centerpiece. What's oh-so-fabulous about Christmas (and really any holiday) is that you can use dishes and other serving-ware you already have. Just add a few holiday touches. { Continue Reading }
Charming Ginger Ladies Ginger ladies may have an attitude but they will surely be the hit of the party. Their fragrance fills the room of sweet gingerbread. All dressed up and ready to go home as a unique gift. These sassy potpourri ladies are perfect for little girls and big girls and guaranteed to put a smile on everybody’s face. Drop them into a clear cello bag, tie a big red bow { Continue Reading }
How To Make Candy Cane Trees If you saw our last post, Children's Gingerbread House Decorating Party, then you saw our Candy Cane Topiary Trees! They are not only whimsical little decorations perfect for the holidays but also super easy to make! We are all about the crafty tree DIYs! - if you missed our post on Berry Trees & Ornaments - check it out here! Do you have a festive, holiday DIY { Continue Reading }
Nutcracker Dinner Party Crab Dip Creamy Broccoli Soup Shrimp Casserole Cheese Biscuits English Mincemeat Pie Grand Marnier Grapes (to garnish dessert plates) A collection of Santa’s, angels, nutcrackers, or snowmen make an easy centerpiece. Cluster your collections by color, size, or shape to heighten visual impact. Lining luminaries up your front steps always creates a { Continue Reading }
How To Make Gingerbread Houses Christmas comes to our house with a whole set of customs, rituals, and traditions. Since this is a time of traditions and a time to enjoy friends, making gingerbread houses and giving Tea Parties are without a doubt our favorite tradition. Each year, my Mom and I give a Gingerbread House Tea Party for friends. Only silver trays are used because it is a grand { Continue Reading }
Driscoll's Very Berry DIYs This year take a fresh new approach to holiday crafts and make them edible! This Very Berry Holiday Tree created by cookbook author Tish Boyle is the ideal holiday 'DIY' that let's you get your craft on and save money too – in under an hour. When the folks at Driscoll's shared these DIY ideas with me, I knew I had to share them with you! Super delicious and easy { Continue Reading }
DIY Paper Flowers Just last week, I was driving in Hillsboro Village (a cute shopping and dining area in Nashville) when I looked over at one of my favorite stores (Social Graces) to see these darling white paper flowers covering their windows. I almost had a wreck. I HAD to find out how they made those. Lucky me there was a craft night just a few days later where Erin Duffy of Social Graces { Continue Reading }
Big Congratulations to Ruth Hill for winning the Dough-A-Deer Giveaway! You will receive an email soon! We have a super fun Halloween giveaway coming on Thursday so check back to enter! Let's have lunch today! Head over to the Seasonal Celebrations Community and meet Courtney for lunch at 12pm EST (11pm CST) for a chat about Halloween Parties & Decorations! Just look for my Live Chat { Continue Reading }
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