Do you have a Christmas Pajama tradition? We didn’t have a specific tradition growing up–but as my kids have gotten older we’ve found it fun to make sure everyone had a new pair of PJ’s to wear on Christmas. It’s “clothes”–which sometimes the younger set doesn’t particularly like–but since they are soft and cozy and… Keep Reading
How to Make a Duck Tape Holiday Bow
Duck Tape–such wonderful stuff! You can make just about anything from it! How about making some all weather, fade resistant holiday bows this year to use in your decorating outside! The kind folks at Walmart and Duck Tape sent me a big box of holiday colored Duck Tape and asked me to make something fun… Keep Reading
How to Make a Bent Wire Name Necklace
Here’s a great gift for the girls on your list that’s easy enough for a teenager to make for her friends: A Bent Wire Name Necklace! I love this craft because it is personalized, fun and yet easy and inexpensive to make. When Walmart asked me to make a craft for the winter season, I… Keep Reading
How to Make Holiday Hairbows
Here’s an easy and inexpensive craft that can be used as a sweet little gift, a stocking stuffer or made en mass as a church bazaar or craft fair fundraiser: Holiday Hairbows! These cute little clip on bows can be made in any combination of ribbons to celebrate a holiday, incorporate a favorite licensed character,… Keep Reading
“Punched Tin” Ornaments from Recycled Canning Jar Lids
Here’s a great way to recycle those single use canning lids after you’ve popped them off your jars of beautiful homemade jelly or tasty home canned beans. Don’t have canning jar lids? That’s ok–ask your friends who can (they WILL have some), pick up an new unused box of canning lids at Walmart for under… Keep Reading
Glitzy Holiday Napkin Rings
Want to give your holiday table a little extra oomph, but don’t want to spend a fortune? Then these simple, inexpensive Glitzy Holiday Napkin Rings are for you! I learned how to make these on the Walmart Moms Holiday Trip down to Walmart Headquarters this year. One of our favorite presenters–Max from Better Homes and… Keep Reading
DIY Multi Holiday Table Runner
For some reason the fall is a time when I want to pull out my sewing machine and make something! So when Walmart gave me a Thanksgiving Craft Challenge and asked me to do a fall/Thanksgiving craft of my choice, I decided I just HAD to do a sewing project. But why do a project… Keep Reading
97 Stocking Stuffers for Teens or Tweens
I love Christmas! I don’t love trying to fill everyone’s stockings without spending a fortune. It seems like the younger your boys and girls are the easier it is to find inexpensive items that they will enjoy. By the time they head into the Tween and Teen years it starts to get downright expensive. A… Keep Reading
Holiday Baking with Great Value: Dressing Up Sugar Cookies
I’m part of a great group of bloggers who are all cooking up ways to use Great Value products for the various holidays through out the year. You may remember that for my very first post with them I shared my easy and elegant ideas for using up Thanksgiving leftovers, and then hosted a special… Keep Reading
Recipe: Fruitcake Slice Cookies
Fruitcake Slice Cookies are a beautiful addition to your Christmas Cookie platter. Rather than the heavy, dark, spicy flavor one expects from a true fruit cake, these cookies are instead more of a cross between a shortbread and a butter cookie with little jewels of candied fruit embedded throughout. Print Fruitcake Slice Cookies Ingredients 1… Keep Reading
