Since cross stitch is my first crafting love, I can’t let a tree go by without a little something. This year I went back to a saying I used to hear all the time as a kid. I don’t know…
Christmas DIY: Ugly Christmas Sweater Ornament
I have a bunch of friends who have started celebrating the ugly Christmas sweater with an annual party, where they compete to see who can show up with the cheesiest, most over the top, ridiculous Christmas sweater. I don’t live…
Christmas DIY: How to Make a Finger Knit Garland
First things first for our Cozy Christmas tree, and that’s a giant knit garland. I wanted even the tree itself to look all bundled up, so I wanted the garland to look like a scarf so long Doctor Who would…
How to decorate a Christmas Tree
This Cozy Christmas tree I’m creating this year will be our seventh tree. And when I make a new tree I don’t get rid of the old one, as I type I am surrounded by seven Christmas trees. I am…
Christmas Crafts: Outdoor Swag and Lanterns
It’s only December 2nd and I’m already behind! I had this project ready for November, but I don’t know if I missed a week somewhere or I just got too inspired to stop, but somehow I ended up with an…
Christmas Crafts: Giant Window Wreaths
When we lived in New Hampshire I fell totally in love with the winter decor. Fresh boughs cut straight from the trees, greenery hung on bright red doors, and wreaths hung in the middle of every window. This house has…
Christmas Crafts: Outdoor Gift Boxes
Nearby Bear’s parents house there was a family that we used to affectionately call “the Griswold’s.” They had so many lights wrapped around their house you could probably have seen it from space, and yet they managed to do it…
Recipe: Winter Root Vegetable Gratin
This picture is from our Thanksgiving meal last year and it’s been sitting on my hard drive all year waiting to be seasonally appropriate again. I brought a friend with me to our family Thanksgiving, which meant that she was…
Year of Pleasures: Hot Glue Flower
Whenever I smell a hot glue gun, I think of Christmas. That seems to be when I have it out the most and that smell has imprinted on my brain next to poinsettias and tinsel. Working on my Christmas projects…
Christmas Craft: Winter Garden Tile
This will be our first winter in the mountains, but I’m not sure if we’ll see snow. We might be just a little too far “down the hill” (as the locals say) to get any, but my hopes are still…