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DIY // Christmas Pom Pom Garland

DIY // Christmas Pom Pom Garland

Tuesday kicks off our Christmas Cheer link party featuring your Christmas trees!  This year, we put our 5 year-old faux tree up in the stairway, and bought a real miniature tree for James’ room.  I wanted to keep his kid friendly and thought handmade pom pom garland would be a cute craft project we could do together for the tree.

I should have known my son would be more interested in making a mess of the furry little balls instead of helping me string the garland! 

Later,

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Christmas Mantle

Christmas Mantle

Happy Holiday Cheer link party mantle day!  Michelle at Ten June is our host and you can link up your mantle at her blog.  As you know, we don’t have a fireplace or mantle in our house, so the console table in our entryway functions as our “mantle”.  This year, I shopped our house and came up with this Christmas mantle.

I started with the gold Z Gallerie runner that I used on our dining table for Thanksgiving 2011.  Then I added the three Pottery Barn candle holders with green candles and faux snow.  The fois bois candle is also from Pottery Barn.

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My Fit Foods

My Fit Foods

I wanted to share with you a food shortcut that I’ve used in the past that really works well when you don’t have time to cook, but want to eat healthy.  I typically like to cook our meals, but this is another option.  My Fit Foods is pre-cooked, fresh, refrigerated packaged meals that you just heat up for a couple minutes and they are ready to eat.  A while back, we bought enough meals for our family for several lunches and dinners.  I buy the small, but the large would be about enough for two meals for me.

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Make Your Own Christmas Photo Card with PicMonkey

Make Your Own Christmas Photo Card with PicMonkey

This year I’m sending out a picture of James inside our Christmas cards that I had some fun editing in PicMonkey.  I wanted to share with you how I did it in case you aren’t familiar with the free online editing tool.  It’s super easy to use and I edit almost all of my photos in it.  I wish I knew how to use Photoshop, but I find PicMonkey works well for my purposes. 

Here’s the end result for the picture that will be included in our cards for 2012.  

Would you believe I took 99 photos of James to get ONE I could use for the card?!

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Christmas Craft (DIY Outdoor Holiday Sign)

Christmas Craft (DIY Outdoor Holiday Sign)

Hi all!  Today we kick off our Christmas Cheer Link Party over at Hi Sugarplum where you can show off your Christmas craft!

I got the idea for my craft a few weeks ago at our annual Nutcracker Market when I saw an adorable 

outdoor holiday sign for about $40.  I thought I’d try my hand at recreating it at home, and it only cost me about $5.00.   

  

If only my lettering were cuter:(  I think that was part of the charm of the Nutcracker sign, so I may try repainting and rewriting mine since I’m not crazy about how that part turned out.

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Great Grandma’s Hot Chicken Salad

Great Grandma’s Hot Chicken Salad

Today’s recipe comes all the way from my beloved, late Great Grandma, and it was passed down to me by my Grandma.  My Grandma is a great cook and she’s always sending me recipes and healthy eating articles she’s clipped from magazines, since she’s diabetic.  I love that this Hot Chicken Salad recipe is in her own sweet handwriting.  You can tell I’ve used it a bunch since the notecard is worn and dirty- a great sign of a good dish!

Over the years, I’ve tweaked the recipe some and added a few new ingredients.

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Christmas Cheer Holiday Link Party Start Tomorrow!

Christmas Cheer Holiday Link Party Start Tomorrow!

This weekend I was knee deep in spray paint and craft projects in honor of our upcoming 2nd Annual Christmas Cheer Holiday Link Party!  I had hoped to have completed at least one of my projects to show you today, but neither project is ready yet.

And, yes, we really are in tank tops and flip flops here in Houston.  It was 85 degrees on Sunday! Are you getting to wear your cozy sweaters and boots? So jealous!

The party starts tomorrow at Cassie’s blog (Hi Sugarplum) with Christmas crafts.  On Thursday,

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