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Category Archives: Christmas

Natural Scents and Fragrances – Special Occasion Potpourris

10-Feb-10

A potpourri scent for your home is one of life’s pleasures, so you may want to try different ones to mark the change of the seasons, holidays, birthdays, or anniversaries. You can make the simplest potpourri by drying, and mixing with spices and oils, whatever flowers you have blooming in your garden or pick up [...]

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The Thursday 13 – Free Printable Christmas Gifts!

17-Dec-09

Gift certificates to the recipient’s favorite store are a great gift idea- there’s no shopping (other than getting the certificate), no wondering about making the right choice and the assurance that the gift will be a hit! But they do cost money. And in some stores, you have to spend quite a bit of money [...]

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Decorating For The Holidays Blog Hop – Painted Sugar Cookies For Your Christmas Tree

14-Dec-09

Thank you to JT Locke at The Frugal Housewife for hosting the Decorating For The Holidays Blog Hop! Here’s my entry – Painted Sugar Cookies for your Christmas Tree Gather family members around the kitchen table to paint their own original designs on these lovely cookie ornaments – too pretty to eat! HAND-PAINTED BUTTER COOKIES [...]

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Healthy Gifts for the Holidays – Low-Cost Ideas to Inspire Healthy Living

05-Dec-09

NIH News in Health, December 2009 When you think winter holidays, do you envision cookies, pies and high-fat treats? Bulging waistlines and scale-tipping weight gain? Maybe it’s time to rethink what brings joy and happiness to you, your friends and family. Last December, NIH News in Health suggested over a dozen healthy holiday gifts. Here [...]

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Thrifty Christmas Gifts – Making Your Own Gift Baskets – Fun And Easy To Do!

28-Nov-09

For the Tea Drinker – Fill a basket with an pretty antique tea cup and saucer from a thrift shop, some fancy tea, a small jar of honey, a wooden honey dipper and top it off with a favorite magazine or paperback book. For the Gardener – Take a pretty pot and fill with a [...]

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