Seasons & Holidays

Santa Lucia Story

Ornament Traditions

Ornament sharing is one of the best traditions we have started in our family. I love ornaments. Years ago, we were invited to a friend’s home for Christmas. Their children were well grown with families of their own. Upon seeing her tree, I was fascinated!  I didn’t know any of their children, but you could

Dotty Christmas Burlap Runner

Dotty Christmas Burlap Runner

The Dotty Christmas Burlap Runner is such a simple and attractive way to get a table decorated quickly if you’re short on time! Dotty Christmas Burlap Runner   This is the simplest runner I think I’ve ever made. I love the big round dots, they remind me of the big round snowflakes in Charlie Brown

Easy Moss Planters

Family Traditions • Moss Planters

Christmas is a special time for many families. We love to bake, shop, and find special things to create family memories. Today we are talking about family traditions and we’ll make some pretty moss planters for your holiday table!   Traditions by Tonya Chapa It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Time for the

Pumpkin Yarn Craft and Pumpkin Recipes

Today’s Post features a pumpkin yarn craft and some pumpkin recipes! Too Many Pumpkins by Linda White is one of our favorite fall books!  Rebecca Estelle does not like pumpkins! When a truck comes by at harvest and dumps one into her yard, her attitude must change.   This part is when my 5-year-old gasps

Fall Jute Decor!

  Today’s post is from Chasity Burrell of Heritage Acres Homestead! She has a great pumpkin fall jute decor craft to share and a pumpkin cream cheese spread! Definitely visit her site! She has become one of our newest writers, and we love her ideas! Thank you for being our guest today Chasity! [clickToTweet tweet=”Autumn

Easy Pumpkin Paper Chains

Easy Pumpkin Paper Chains! Paper chains are an old-fashioned, easy craft and make pretty fall decor for any room. Children love making paper chains, and pumpkin paper chains are the easiest to make! Do a whole room of fun fall paper chains by finding different pictures such as acorns, trees, or turkeys. You could also

Spicy Pecans

A friend of mine just mentioned to me the other day that her family was getting lots of pecans. My absolute favorite nut! Besides baking with them, we like to mix raw pecans with egg whites, spices and sugar before roasting them for an extra yummy snack. We published one of our recipes for them

New Year’s Snacks

A very belated and Merry Christmas to all of our readers! Due to some sickness that made it’s way around our whole family (and that’s a lot of sick people), we disappeared for a while to get some rest and get well. We did get well and had a lovely Christmas, and we hope you

Christmas Ornaments

We have been busy this week doing things for Christmas! We have a few special traditions that we do every year, one of them is exchanging ornaments with each other. We have done this for a few years now, so our tree is looking very full! Each name is written on a piece of paper