Gratitude Tree…After

November 30, 2008 By 8 Comments

Pin It before Pin It After We didn’t quite make our goal of adding leaves, every day, but our tree is still full of wonderful things that we are all thankful for! If nothing else, it got us in the habit of being thankful each day. One that I hope we can keep throughout the [...]

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Thanksgiving 2008

November 29, 2008 By 12 Comments
Pumpkin Flower Arrangement

Pin It Pin It So we all ate turkey and felt grateful, and now are frantically decorating, shopping, crafting, etc. for Christmas. But before we get too far into Christmas, I must share my Thanksgiving Insanity for this year. Here is the centerpiece I made for one of the tables. I still love the marigolds [...]

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Just a couple more Thanksgiving ideas

November 26, 2008 By 2 Comments
Pilgrim Hat tablescape

Pin It Once upon a time I took a trip to visit my sister back East and collected lots of these and brought them back in my suitcase, because they are hard to find in AZ. Those leaves have been used in my autumn decor in various ways over the years. At least one year, [...]

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Christmas Card Parade-Great Idea

November 22, 2008 By 8 Comments
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Pin It For those of you who are still trying to come up with a clever but do-able idea for your cards, you are in luck. My sister has finished designing her cards for this year and said I could post them (and submit them to Tip Junkie–she wants to win, too.), since she doesn’t [...]

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Christmas Card Parade-2007

November 21, 2008 By 6 Comments

Tip Junkie is having a Christmas Card contest, and you know it is hard for me to resist a contest, so I am going to share with you all of my previous Christmas Cards (that I can find!). Initially, I was going to do this all in one long post, but since I am finding [...]

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Glass Pebble Magnets

November 20, 2008 By 11 Comments

Pin It I’m sure I’m not the first to post about making magnets. There are gorgeous versions of these on etsy and lots of other places in blogland. But my husband and I teach a primary class (10-12 year-olds) at church and this idea fit in really well with our lesson. So we made them [...]

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Tablescape Tuesday, A Pumpkin Thanksgiving

November 18, 2008 By 11 Comments
3D pumpkin placecards

Pin It I’m listed along with several other beautiful blogs today here, as places to go for inspiration for your upcoming holiday tables. I have posts featuring some Thanksgiving tables here, here, and here. But I thought I may as well go a head and get the rest of my ideas up here now, since [...]

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The Great Pumpkin Pumpkin Cake

November 18, 2008 By 15 Comments

Pin It I had a couple of pumpkin-themed parties this weekend to tell you about. Remember the pumpkin baby shower ideas I shared here. Well, this is the cake I ended up making for the shower. It was a hit, so I thought I would share in case, you are in the market for something [...]

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Peeking at Christmas–Can you guess my theme?

November 17, 2008 By 16 Comments

Pin It Here’s a peek at a project I’ve started for Christmas. Remember in this post, how I said that I choose themes for all kinds of holidays each year? Well this project, is all about the theme I have chosen for this year. Any guesses?

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Counting Down Christmas–An Advent Calendar

November 14, 2008 By 22 Comments
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Pin It     ***UPDATE, I have just posted my advent inserts, here!*** I had been wanting to make an advent calendar of some kind, for a long time. I was hoping to do something in the shape of a Christmas tree because that is what we had growing up, but I was hoping for [...]

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