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Christmas Link Party!

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    It's Christmas season! Woo Hoo! And what better way to kick off this festive time but with a Christmas Link Up! I am partnering with some of my favorite bloggers to provide you  with 4 weeks of holiday ideas! Week 1: Christmas trees Week 2: Home Tour Week 3: Gifts Week 4: Holiday Food and Recipes Your hosts: Designers Sweet Spot   365 Days of Crafts   An Oregon Cottage   Dragon Fly and Lily Pads   Green with Decor  The Deans List Blog   DIY Beautify  CasaWatkins  Sow and Dipity   Sondra Lyn At Home   Shabby Grace Blog   Maj Hoff Takes a Wife   Charming Imperfections   Mommy...

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Last Minute Thanksgiving Decor: Placecard Free Printable

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Thanksgiving is practically here and if you want something to jazz up your holiday table I have just the thing. I made these cute little placecards that you can simply print, cut, and place! I used regular printer paper but card stock would work the best.  Click the link below to download and print. Printable Thanksgiving Placecards You will need to cut each out so there is a side for the name and then a plain white side. You can see in the picture below how I cut. You will end up with 8 placecards per page. Here are some more Thanksgiving ideas!   Pie Tasting Bar Pumpkin Eggnog Chiffon Tart Burlap and Lace Flatware Holders Homemade Cranberry Sauce Thanksgiving...

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Free Christmas & Holiday Printables

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This is a post and run! I fiddled with making some holiday printables this weekend and thought I would share. Click on the links under each picture to download and print. They are all sized for 8x10.  Stick them in a frame and voila! Christmas! Enjoy!   Holly Jolly Christmas Merry Christmas  Seasons Greetings &nbs...

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How To Create A Pie Tasting Bar! Holiday Entertaining

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This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #ShareTheJoyOfPie #CollectiveBias Create a sweet pie bar complete with mini tasting servings of your favorite flavors and whipped topping!  It is so easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of the holidays, isn't it?  Shopping, wrapping, baking, planning...it is overwhelming at times. Slowing down on an afternoon with friends after a full day of shopping is the perfect way to savor the season and what better way to do that but with a sweet treat!  A pie tasting party is the perfect way to share the joy of pie! I want my pie bar to be delicious but...

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How To Host A Neighborhood Open House

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While certain stores are telling us it is Christmas time (I'm looking at you, um, every store) the truth is that it is fall and I am celebrating it by showing you, my lovely readers,  my pictures from a Halloween/Fall open house we hosted for our neighborhood. Open houses are a fantastic way to entertain because the times are fixed and YOU get to fix those times!   1. First I created a simple invitation/flyer. This was stuffed into everyone's mailbox in our neighborhood. I made sure to let our invitees know that they were not obligated to come at a specific time during that 2 hour window and they could stay as long as they liked. I also put that it would be held outside so people...

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Holiday Baking: Pumpkin Eggnog Chiffon Tart

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This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #NestleHolidayBaking #CollectiveBias Thanksgiving is always a special holiday but for our family it is one of the only quiet moments in the middle of craziness to just enjoy each other.  Between Molly's birthday being on Halloween and our travels during Christmas, the fall and winter tend to extra hectic. But Thanksgiving is the holiday in which we stay home and savor our time together. We like to plan our menu together as a family and while we generally stick with tradition we do sometimes like to bring something new to the table. This Thanksgiving I am serving...

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