WOW -- I can't believe that Christmas is nearly here! My kids and I have always wanted a holiday Christmas snow village, but all those holiday village pieces (the cute houses, etc.) are SO expensive! So, I decided that my daughters and I could make our own holiday village. My daughters and I started out by buying little unfinished wood houses at our local craft store. The houses were inexpensive. I bought spray paint for the houses that I thought would look like snow, but the spray paint just added a light glittery look to the houses. We topped out houses with cotton ball "snow" instead. Continue reading...
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Getting a Home Christmas Ready
Thank you, BISSELL for sponsoring today’s post on preparing for holiday entertaining! Now that Christmas is only about a week away, I am in full gear to get my preparations done for the big day! Since my home has wall-to-wall carpeting, a major part of those preparations are making sure the carpets are clean for my guests! I am lucky that I have the BISSELL ProHeat 2X® Premier 47A23 Upright Deep Cleaner in my cleaning arsenal! My new ProHeat 2X® Premier 47A23 Upright Deep Cleaner, and my BISSELL Professional Deep Cleaning formula with Scotchgard™ Protector, really helped me to get my Continue reading...
Oral B Pro-Health 3000: A Christmas Gift for Tweens
Now that my kid are tweens, I've found it tougher to find gifts for them that will go the distance. You know, gifts that will be liked and used for more than just a few days. (Tweens can be fickle!) So this year, I've already gifted them with the Oral-B Pro-Health 3000, and they love it! Healthy Christmas Gift for Kids This year I started a new tradition: For the 25 days leading up to Christmas, I let each daughter unwrap a gift. Each gift is marked with how many days there are until Christmas. Most of the gifts I've been giving are useful things that they can use everyday, like the Continue reading...
Christmas Pajamas & Holiday Countdown!
* This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Joe Boxer pajamas available at Kmart. I received a promotional item in exchange for my participation in this campaign. All opinions expressed in this post are truly my own. With Christmas just around the corner, my kids and I have started our holiday countdown! For our holiday countdown, I am letting the kids open one small gift every day this month as a prelude to the big day! Each day’s gift is tagged with a number that notes how many days left until Christmas. My kids are having so much fun opening up a gift each day! Continue reading...
How to Save at Christmas #FinancialPeace
As a stay-at-home mom with only a part-time income, it is important to me and my family that we don't go over budget this holiday season. So that means that I will be carefully watching our Christmas spending and will be using every cost-saving measure that I can to make sure that my family enjoys the holiday season without spending more money than we need to! It is important to my husband and I that we only spend modestly, since as the parents of two tweens, the college years are getting closer and closer! My husband and I would love to send our children to the best colleges we can without Continue reading...
Balsam Hill Christmas Giveaway
With Christmas just about two months away, do you know which Christmas decorating theme is perfect for your family? If not, Balsam Hill has the perfect Christmas decorating quiz and giveaway for you on Facebook! Through the quiz, you can find out the Christmas decorating theme that suits your family, and be entered to win a 6-piece, Egg Blown Glass Ornament Set! Twelve daily winners will receive Egg Blown Glass Ornaments in sets of 6, available in Burgundy & Emerald, Gold and Champagne, and Silver and Blue. I took the quiz, and the quiz determined that I would most like Balsam Hill's Continue reading...
Christmas Crafts & Decor
Christmas seems to pop up so quickly, so why not get ready for Christmas any time of year? On this page are just a few of the ways my family and I like to celebrate Christmas! (Click on each photo for the full details!) Continue reading...
The Christmas Pickle – A Fun Holiday Tradition
This holiday season, I have been into creating new Christmas traditions for my kids. Just a few days ago, we started using our new decorated advent gift boxes to count down until Christmas -- my daughters have been having so much fun opening the boxes each morning to find little treats and surprises for them nestled inside! Christmas Pickle Ornament Yesterday, I was in a local dollar store and was very happy to find glass pickle ornaments for just $1 each! I've heard of the tradition of hiding a glass pickle ornament in the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve, and have always been curious about Continue reading...
7 Christmas Advent Calendars
I just love advent calendars. Since I've created my gift box advent calendar for my kids, I've been noticing other really great advent calendars from other blogs. I'd love to create one of these other advent calendars and add to the fun my kids and I have been having with our advent calendar! Gift Box Advent Calendar To create my family's advent calendar, I gathered some of the mini gift boxes I've saved over the years. I used some scrapbook paper to decorate the boxes, and either hand numbered them or used number stickers to number each box. In each box, I placed special treats Continue reading...
Christmas Advent Calendar Boxes
Now that December is here, my kids absolutely cannot wait for Christmas! So, I came up with the idea of creating cute numbered advent calendar boxes -- my kids can open one up each day as we count down to Christmas. Yesterday, I created a few advent calendar boxes, for 23, 22, 21, 20 and 19 days until Christmas. I'll eventually add the other boxes as we get closer to Christmas! In each box, I nestled yummy treats, stickers, and other fun finds. They opened the 23 days until Christmas box yesterday to find a large piece of bubble gum each. They were happy to get the gum! I got my Continue reading...
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