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homemade Christmas gifts

Scrapping, scrapping, and more scrapping.

December 29, 2009

With the help of oodles of Canon 4×6 photo paper, boxes and boxes of double-stick photos squares, and my Christmas station on Pandora, I turned out three scrapbooks for gifts this year (in retrospect, this was sort of insane). I’ve mentioned before that I make one for my husband’s grandmother every year. Last year, I [...]

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Monday Q&A, Christmas Edition

December 14, 2009

You guys had a lot of Christmas related questions when I asked for Christmas post suggestions, so I thought I’d devote a Q&A post to answering some of them. I’d love to know what you guys do for Christmas. Do you have special traditions you do every year? Yup, we’ve definitely got some favorite traditions [...]

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Homemade Christmas Gifts: 6 Frugal Ideas

December 10, 2009

Though the holidays are usually a time when people loosen their belts, the current economy is making more and more of us think about scaling back at Christmas time. It feels grinchy, I know, to cut back on spending at Christmas time, but I really do think that you can do that without making your [...]

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Oh, Black Friday, you miserable shopping day!

November 25, 2009

In case you couldn’t guess from the title, I am NOT a Black Friday shopper.  In fact, I would almost prefer to stick forks into my eyeballs than go shopping the day after Thanksgiving.  Here’s why. I hate crowds. Hate them, hate them, hate them.  Being a stay-at-home, work-at-home mom, I am accustomed to being [...]

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Homemade Chai Latte Mix Recipe

November 24, 2009

If you follow me on Twitter, you know that ever since our vacation, I’ve been trying to figure out how to make Chai at home.   I’m still busy experimenting, but the following recipe is what I’ve been using for the moment.  I found it on All Recipes, but it’s also on RecipeZaar, and in some [...]

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