Monday, November 29, 2010

Pepparkakor Cookies

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It's nearly December, and that means I will be spending lots more time here in my Christmas kitchen. One thing I will be doing is to sh...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Cookie mystery solved!

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(At least in part...) I've mentioned before how one of my mother's traditional cookie recipes for Christmas was called Chocolate...
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Monday, November 15, 2010

Chocolate Mint Crisps -- a favorite Christmas cookie!

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I've mentioned before how much I love Christmas magazines. Only with great strength of character can I prevent myself from buying som...
Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Simple paper ornaments

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Here are some paper ornaments I recently tried making with the help of my granddaughters. They turned out okay, but I guess I will use them...
Saturday, November 06, 2010

Clearing the decks for Christmas preparations

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I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about preparing for Christmas. I want to simplify these last weeks before Christmas, freeing m...
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Thursday, November 04, 2010

Reality check ...

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... for Christmas crafting Today Mr. T had to run a work-related errand in a city about an hour from here. He asked if I would like to go a...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

Tentative Christmas baking list for 2010

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Last night I spent a few minutes working in my Christmas notebook. I made up a tentative baking list for this Christmas. Here's the l...
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Friday, September 10, 2010

Pillowcase grocery totes as a gift

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I seemed to be in a real pillowcase mode with my Christmas gifts for 2009... I made vintage style ones and also embroidered and cross-stitch...

Some crafting from last Christmas

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Okay, I guess I posted these on my regular blog back in January, but I really should have put them here, too. First, here is a train quilt ...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Adding labels...

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Quite some time ago my daughter suggested I label the posts here on my Christmas blog so that people could find recipes and crafts more eas...
Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Most recent crocheted stocking

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I neglected to post this picture before Christmas 2009. I have been making these for my grandchildren for several years now as the new babi...
Monday, July 12, 2010

Some Christmas gift ideas

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Over at the crafters' corner on my favorite Christmas forum, we were brainstorming some ideas that would make use of the items we were c...
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Friday, July 09, 2010

Christmas shopping trip ... in late June

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A couple of weeks ago, Mr. T got out of work early on a Friday. It just so happened that earlier that week I had received an email announci...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Another pretty, practical gift

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Here's a second handmade gift which my daughter Carrie gave me this past Christmas. Again, I am not sure where she found the pattern, b...
Friday, June 18, 2010

A lovely, useful Christmas gift

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Thought I would show, rather belatedly, one of my handmade Christmas gifts from my daughter Carrie. I really need to get the link from her ...
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Monday, June 14, 2010

Repurposing a small cross stitch sampler

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Here is sort of an unusual gift I just made. This stitchery piece, originally intended to be a birth sampler, had been languishing in my st...
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Tuesday, June 08, 2010

A pretty Christmas pin

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This beautiful pin (sorry the photo is slightly blurry) was cross-stitched by my friend Ruth. I don't know what size Aida she used, but...
Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Fresh-cut pine

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Here is one of my newer Christmas decorations, and one of my favorites. I found it for a bargain price a few years ago at Jo-Ann Fabrics af...

A dish towel gift idea

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Recently I made another set of those fabric-trimmed dish towels for a gift. I decided to post about it here, because of the "gift pack...
Monday, May 31, 2010

Vintage paper bell

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Years ago, my grandmother, who has now passed on, gave me a box of vintage paper goods -- place mats, table cloths, centerpieces, cardboard...
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