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The biggest holiday in the year invites merriment, joy and cheer all around. The more you do, the less it seems. One often experiments with colors, designs, decorations and other ornaments to give the home a warm feeling. From cookies to the Christmas tree, from the ornaments to the chocolates, there is a wide range of items you can display your creativity in. You could purchase the items on sale or make them at home too. For some ideas, peek below. Christmas Music. Why buy a real Christmas tree? Real or plastic?
Many consumers will be asking themselves that question this holiday season. In this age of environmental awareness it's appropriate to know a favorite family holiday tradition of choosing a real Christmas tree over an artificial tree is still the environmentally sound choice. "What could be simpler or more natural?
" says Bob Scott, Former President of the National Christmas Tree Association. Christmas Tree Fruit Salad. We put this together for Sabrina's preschool Christmas party.
It was a huge hit and so easy and fun to make. I made it again to bring to a holiday party and filled the empty parts with pineapple chunks. Holiday Gift Toppers / Holidays and Seasonal. I’ve always felt that the way you wrap your gifts is just as important as what is inside the box.
When you take the time to make a package extra special, it makes it personal and it shows you care. Here are six different ideas to decorate, personalize and add a little “punch” to holiday packages. Penguin Snow Globe To create the snow globe, punch out two xxx-large circles. Cut one of your circles in half to use as the globe base. Punch out a pair of penguins and adhere them to the globe using dimensional foam adhesive dots. Deer and Forest Topper. DIY serving tray « Cocoa Customization Kit by Megan Reardon. This Cocoa Customization Kit is a simple stocking stuffer that will help transform the ever present hot chocolate mix. Included are decorated wooden stir sticks. You can fill plastic tube containers with anything good to mix or dunk in a cup of cocoa.
Here is what I included: - Marshmallows, everybody likes extras. - Drinking chocolate to make that cup of hot chocolate extra rich, we used 2 teaspoons per mug. (Look for the fine shavings, cocoa powder will clump.) - Crushed candy canes. - Malted milk powder (we liked 1 teaspoon per mug). - Miniature shortbread cookies (these were my favorite). - Chocolate dipped candy cane sticks or miniature candy canes. - Wafer cookies. I labeled the tubes with instructions for how much to use. To decorate the stir sticks I simply used thread and some silver washi tape. Candy sleighs. Last week at Bring 'n Brag, one of the ladies showed us how she made candy sleighs for Christmas gifts. update!
The lady who showed us the sleighs is Lois. Thanks Lois! Joellen and I decided we needed to make our own! They were fun to make. We made a dozen of them in about an hour and a half (plus wasted time driving around town looking for Christmas ribbon!) Next, attach 10 mini hershey bars on top, with just a drop of glue for each. After all the glue is hard and secure, glue ribbon around your "packages" and a bow on the top. Some of our finished sleighs. Christmas quotes. The warmth of Christmas has been the inspiration of many to pen down wonderful quotes and famous thoughts.
The spirit of Christmas has been wonderfully captured in these quotes. Like many aspects of this festival, the Christmas quotes are also varied. Funny, thought provoking, mesmerizing, inspiring and many other types of such quotes are available. These quotes can be obtained from various sources like internet, books, magazines, and many more. In Search of the Christmas Spirit. Written by Dan Schaeffer The holidays can be challenging.
If you need someone to talk to, come talk to a mentor. One Christmas, I came across an article in a local newspaper by an articulate columnist named Bill Johnson. His column was titled, “A Lesson in Catching the Christmas Spirit.” The True Christmas Spirit. If you're like me, you've heard the world's comments and evaluations of this time of the year.
And one of the phrases that you hear a lot is the "Christmas spirit, we need to have the Christmas spirit. " And, of course, I began to think about that being somewhat analytical, just what is the Christmas spirit? Rediscovering the True Spirit of Christmas. 150 Stocking Stuffer Ideas! Old-Fashioned Christmas. What should I put in a Christmas shoebox. Christmas. I love decorating for the holidays.
My favorite part is pulling out things I bought on sale after Christmas last year. I love how I forget about everything and then pull it out and go, "Oh ma gawh! LOVE IT!! I TOTALLY forgot about this!!! " Like these cute little treasures I scored from my mother-in-law's PRECIOUS shop... And these I scored for like, 90% off at Hobby Lobby!!! {DIY No Sew Ruffle Christmas Tree Skirt} My secret Project is finally finished! You know me, im always working on something. But this project was a big deal for me. As you know, our baby is due Christmas eve {Yay!}
& with all the excitement that will be going on around Christmas time, there will be very little time {& honestly, i think i will be too lazy by then} for me to work on some of the Christmas projects i have been wanting to do. So, I am trying to finish them now while i still have the energy :) The project i have been working on, if you hadn't already figured it out by reading my last post, is a Christmas tree skirt.
This photo, from one of my favorite blogs, was my inspiration: So, here is our tutorial on how to make a Pretty, Ruffley, No Sew tree skirt! Santa Letters - Free , Printable - Free-N-Fun Christmas.com. Christmas Crafts - Free projects and DIY gift ideas from Craftbits.com.