Printable Craft: DIY Altered Letters

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It was time to make a decision. What on earth was I going to do for a Christmas card this year? I finally decided to alter some wooden letters to give them a Christmas feel and have the girls and the pets (yes pets!) pose with a letter to spell out MERRY. This printable craft [...]

Special holiday digital scrapbooking kit #3 FREE with a purchase of $10 or more!

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The most wonderful time of the Scrap Girls’ year is here! Scrap Girls’ Design Team have collaborated to bring you this very special holiday digital scrapbooking kit. All profits from sales of this collection will be donated to our chosen charity: Food for the Poor. This kit is a free gift with a purchase of [...]

Printable Christmas Tag Set Tutorial

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Every year at this time I am invited to parties and participate in gift exchanges.  I look throughout the year for inexpensive gifts that I can take as hostess gifts or exchange at various events.  Like you, I want to be able to give something pretty and handmade that is affordable. One of my favorite [...]

Tutorial: How To Make a Paper Ornament Gift Bow

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My favorite part of the holidays is watching my loved ones open gifts that I’ve picked out for them! I have one special friend, Kim, who always notices the extra care that goes into the wrapping of the gift. This year, I thought I would “dress up” her gift just a little bit more than [...]

Tutorial: How to make a Christmas Advent Calendar

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When I was a little girl, every year on December 1st, we would hang up the flannel board Christmas advent calendar and begin our countdown to Christmas. Each day one of the children would pull out a piece and place it on the board. We all looked forward to it and were excited to see [...]

The days after

It’s two days after Christmas.  You may still have gatherings to attend, or people to see.  There’s something about the season that sort of blends it all together sometimes from Thanksgiving to New Years.  By the time January 2nd comes along, it’s a big blur. So here’s my advice:  take a few moments and jot [...]

How to Make Printable Gift Tags

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It always happens to me. Just as I’m in the middle of wrapping my Christmas gifts, I run out of gift tags. What’s a busy mom to do? I can drop everything and make a quick trip to the stationery store, battle the holiday traffic, spend an inordinate chunk of time at the checkout line, [...]

Printable Art & Crafts: How To Customize A Candle Holder

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Last year after Christmas, I picked up this candle holder and candles pretty cheap. It was such a great bargain, I couldn’t pass it up! I knew I would be able to do something with it. This year as we brought up the Christmas ornaments, I found the bag again, and I started thinking about different [...]

Last Minute Preparations

Well, the week of the Christmas holiday is here.  I know for many of us, its a busy time of having the kids out of school, having family come to us, or going to see family, and lots and lots of food!! Do you have your shopping done? Do you have your wrapping done? How [...]

Make a list, check it twice

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As much as I try to slow down and make the real meaning of this season the priority, I know that with all of the family gatherings and parties and baking and shopping that I have to do, I must make lists. A lot of lists. I have lists on my iPhone, in notebooks in my [...]

 

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