This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Thanks to Nearly Natural for sponsoring this post by providing me with a beautiful Nearly Natural faux Christmas tree. Welcome back to the Festive Christmas Ideas blog hop! Today my blogging friends and I are sharing Christmas decorating ideas! Today I am sharing an easy Christmas snow window that my daughter and I created in my living room's bay window as a backdrop for the new Christmas tree I put up this year. Be sure to scroll all the way down to the bottom of this post for more Christmas decorating ideas from my blogging friends! How Continue reading...
Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup
I have always loved split pea soup. Up until recently, I've only eaten canned split pea soup. I was under the impression that to make homemade split pea soup, I'd have to soak the split peas overnight before cooking. I was wrong! With the slow cooker split pea soup recipe I am sharing today, you simply just cook the peas in hot water with spices and veggies for a few hours. It turns out that with a slow cooker, it's quite easy to make home-cooked split pea soup! Slow Cooker Split Pea Recipe This recipe couldn't be easier! I just added some dry split peas, chopped carrots, water and Continue reading...
Rustic Minimal Christmas Tree
This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Thanks to Nearly Natural for sponsoring this post by providing me with a beautiful lit pine Nearly Natural faux Christmas tree. Today my blogging friends and I are sharing Christmas tree ideas! I love Christmas trees and decorating Christmas trees, so I am looking forward to all the wonderful Christmas tree ideas that will be shared today! I got a beautiful new Christmas tree from Nearly Natural this year. I love my beautiful, incredibly real looking tree. My new artificial Christmas tree is the 6' White Mountain Pine Artificial Continue reading...
Pizza Crisper Pan – Friday Finds
This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. Since last spring, when the pandemic hit the United States, my family and I have been spending more time at home. We also have been cooking at home more often. Since the spring, I've learned how to make pizza dough in my Zojirushi 1-Pound-Loaf Mini Breadmaker and have been making homemade pizza for my family. I used to cook the pizza on one old pizza pan I had, and on one Anolon Advanced Nonstick Bakeware 13-Inch Pizza Crisper. The Analon pizza crisper works so much better, and my old pizza pan is in such bad condition, that I just got myself a Continue reading...
Festive Uncoventional Christmas Movies to Watch this Holiday Season
This post contains Amazon affiliate links. During the holiday season, one of my favorite things is to spend an evening in with my husband and kids and watch a Christmas movie. When you like to watch holiday movies as much as I do, sometimes the list of traditional or standard Christmas movies can be kind of short! But luckily, I have found other non-standard Christmas movies that can get me in the holiday spirit, too! These festive unconventional Christmas movies aren't 100% Christmas movies, but they do the trick! Some of these unconventional Christmas movies happen to be among my all-time Continue reading...
Stovetop Chicken Tortilla Soup Recipe
This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Now that the weather is getting cooler, I've been looking for more soup recipes that I can make for my family. I found a recipe for chicken tortilla soup and tried it out one night as a dinner main dish for my family. We liked it so much that the soup pot was completely empty after dinner! I am putting this delicious but easy stovetop recipe for chicken tortilla soup on my family's dinner menu rotation! This recipe is great for a weeknight dinner. It's low fuss and can be made on the stove - I made mine in my dutch oven. I am sharing this recipe Continue reading...
DIY Wood Slice Christmas Ornaments
This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Today I am sharing a tutorial on how to make DIY wood slice Christmas ornaments (using a Silhouette Cameo machine) in today's Festive Christmas Ideas blog hop. Today my blogging friends and I are sharing DIY Christmas ornament ideas! My blogging friends and I will be sharing new Christmas ideas every Monday and Wednesday through November 19 for the hop, so be sure to check back here each week! How to Make DIY Wood Slice Christmas Ornaments My husband bought me a pretty vintage Christmas ornament stand on a family weekend trip several Continue reading...
Cheddar and Green Onion Quick Bread
Today I am joining my friends for the Taste Creations blog hop! I will be sharing an easy and delicious cheddar and green onion quick break recipe! This recipe requires no yeast or kneading, and is so delicious! We get together the first of every month to bake recipes together using the same ingredient or theme. Today we will be sharing bread recipes! Cheddar & Green Onion Quick Bread I often make bread in my bread machine, but besides banana bread, I haven't baked any bread traditionally in the oven. So for this week's blog hop, I decided to bake a quick bread. (Banana Continue reading...
Christmas White Elephant Game for Families
Now that my daughters are teens, we have been looking for a new Christmas Eve tradition to play together. We used to put out milk and cookies for Santa Claus and "magic reindeer food" out on the driveway for Santa's reindeer. But now that we don't do those traditions anymore, I thought that it might be fun to play a family "White Elephant" game on Christmas Eve. I am sharing this list of fun unconventional Christmas movies as part of the Festive Christmas ideas blog hop! This blog hop will share lots of holiday ideas, recipes, crafts and decor ideas to make the Christmas season extra Continue reading...
Ways to Enjoy Your Fire Pit This Fall
This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Welcome to Tasty Tuesday! Today I am doing something a little bit different (for a Tasty Tuesday). I am going to be sharing different ways that my family and I plan to enjoy our fire pit this fall. One BIG WAY that my family enjoys our fire pit is by enjoying a variety of foods cooked over the fire pit! (That's where the Tasty Tuesday theme comes in!) Ways to Enjoy Your Fire Pit this Fall My family finally bought a fire pit this summer. My husband told me to pick one out last summer as an anniversary gift, but I never got around to it! But Continue reading...