Classroom Valentines
This post contains affiliate links. Have you bought/made Valentines for your kids’ classrooms yet? I received an email from Minted the other day and I had to share the adorable custom classroom Valentines they are promoting this year: These are just a few of the over 100 templates they have available – and that’s not […]
Quick and Easy Christmas Treats
Are you ready? Except for the cooking that is? I am!! Mainly because Hubby handles cooking the main meals, and I handle the baking, grocery shopping, cleaning etc. (aka: he gets all the glory). Fortunately for me, my baking has been pared down to a few seasonal favourites that we bring out every year – […]
Jólabókaflóð (Jolabokaflod) – A Christmas Eve tradition worth practicing
I first came across the term Jólabókaflóð (Jolabokaflod) on Instagram. It means “Yule book flood” and is a Holiday tradition in Iceland (you brilliant Icelanders) and it refers to the Christmas Eve tradition of gifting a book and chocolate to friends and family. The evening (after dinner and gifts) is then spent reading your new treasure […]
Gag Gift Ideas for Christmas
It was only a year or two ago that I first heard the term “White elephant gift”. I didn’t realize it was a tradition that some people participated in? I’d heard of (and have both given and received) gag gifts, but to create a celebration around the gross and inappropriate… sounded AWESOME! I have a […]
Holiday Entertaining and Surprise Guests
You know it’s going to happen… usually when your house is at its worst, you have laundry piles on the couches waiting to be folded and there are dirty dishes in the sink… Surprise Guests! It’s the Season for stop-by’s and pop-by’s and “I was in the neighbourhood”, so I thought I’d share a little […]
Holiday Home Tour 2017
It seems like every blogger in the universe is showcasing their Holiday Home Tour 2017. I’ve been decorating, staging, photographing, moving things around, photographing, editing, photographing – and I cannot come close to the gorgeous homes and images of some of my blogging idols. Mainly because my house is lived in and messy all most […]
DIY wood lanterns
Looking for an easy tutorial on making DIY wood lanterns? You can check out my blog post on rustic lanterns here; or you can follow the tutorial from The Stonybrook House and make these adorable white ones from scrap wood. I won’t steal her thunder any more than to say I made these DIY wood lanterns […]