Floating Candles and Fresh Cranberries – Christmas Decor

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I have seen this idea quite a bit, probably first at weddings.  Floating candles are so classy and elegant.  When added to cranberries, we’ve got ourselves some award-winning Christmas decor!  Candles help beautify and set a calm mood.  When the kids are down and it is finally wind-down time, I like to wrap up in [...]

Hanging Ornaments – Christmas Decor

Hanging Ornaments from Lights

Oh Christmas joy. I love Christmas. I love it. I love it. Did I say I love it? I love decorating the house. I love making the house smell good with scented candles. I love the twinkling lights from the tree. I love listening to Christmas music. I love snacking on tasty treats. Here is [...]

Books for Christmas

Christmas Books

Last year I saw an idea on someones blog for a Christmas book advent calendar.  They had 24 different Christmas books and wrapped them in cute wrapping paper.  Each night before bed, they would unwrap a Christmas story and read it as a family.  I loved the idea so I immediately went to Amazon.com and [...]

DIY Advent Calendar

Christmas Advent Calendar

Last year I came across this adorable advent calendar from Twig and Thistle. We were already well into December and it was too late to make one. This year I’m bringing my ‘A’ game to Christmas and I knew I had to make one! I picked up a pack of Wilton 2″ favor tins months [...]

Colored Pumpkin Craft for Kids

Colored Pumpkin Thanksgiving Craft

My son brought this colorful pumpkin home from school recently.  I thought it was a super cute, easy craft that you could do with kids of all ages.  All you would need is some mini pumpkins (this one was white) and different colors of markers. This is the type of craft that is easy enough [...]

Christmas Family Activities – Free Printable

Christmas Bucket List Candy Cane Red 11x14

I love this time of year!  Love, love, love it.  If I had 3 wishes, one of them would be to put time in slow motion from now until Christmas every year.  That way I could savor the holidays and all of there goodness. One of best (if not the best) parts of Christmas is [...]

Love Is Spelled Time

Love is Spelled Time Printable

President Uchtdorf gave a wonderful talk talk in the October 2010 General Conference – Of Things that Matter Most.  I had the opportunity to see this talk in person!  When President Uchtdorf came up to the stand to talk, it was like a rock star had entered the building.  Everyone was so excited to hear him [...]

Spider Party

Halloween Purple Spider & Black Cupcakes

Get ready for some pictures.  I had a lot of fun with Emily’s spider birthday party theme.  It obviously works great for Halloween and was cute for a little girl’s first birthday party as well.  The spider party theme all began with the spider cake idea I got when I was looking for Halloween decorations. [...]

Spider Cake

Spider Cake with Googly Eyes

It all started with a cute metal pumpkin stand I picked up as a door buster at a local home decor store.  When I saw it, I immediately thought “cake stand” and knew the cake would be spider or spider web themed.  I found a bunch of cute spider cake ideas on pinterest.  What ultimately [...]

DIY Dessert Stand

DIY Dessert Stand

I picked up a simple 3-tiered glass dessert stands a few months ago.  When I bought them I was looking for a simple cake stand that I could reuse for anything and decided to go with glass because it would go with anything.  My set is similar to this one on amazon.com. I wanted to [...]