Tag: christmas
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holiday road trip tips
Last year at Christmas we had a family reunion and two weddings all within a week of each other. We were in Ohio, then Chicago, then Texas. It is completely different planning for air travel than car travel. You are so much more limited in your options of travel supplies. This year we aren’t flying…
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trimming the tree
{DSLR camera settings for this picture: 1/30, f2.8, ISO 800, use a tripod, go about 12 ft from the tree focus on something closer to you like a chair and don’t allow your camera to refocus on the tree before snapping the picture} {DSLR camera settings for this picture: 1/30, f2.8, ISO 800, use a…
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no sew ruffle tree skirt
I have seen these no sew ruffle tree skirts all over, so when I realized I needed a new tree skirt, because I changed my tree decor colors, I decided to try one. I think they look so pretty and I mean… no sew?!… I’m in! I also didn’t want to spend a lot of…
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diy gift wrap
I love making special wrapping paper for a few of my presents. It takes too long to do this with all of our kids presents, so they just get a few that look pretty. For these, I used brown package paper, I punched a whole bunch of circles out of scrapbook paper. I then sewed…
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christmas decor
I love decorating the house each year for Christmas, while playing my favorite Christmas music. This year I changed up the Christmas decor in my living and dinning room, because I re-painted (I still need to show you the before and afters) and I didn’t want to have to buy all new decorations, so I…
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hot chocolate gift jars
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you are having a great day eating lots of yummy food! I saw this post at my link party a few weeks ago and was totally inspired to make something by soldering two mason jar lids together. Then I thought, with the holidays and cold weather here, hot chocolate and marshmallows…