Christmas gift idea

Hello!

I am always looking for a great small gift idea for friends, women's groups, family members and this one takes the cake.

I love packaging and thinking about how to put together

the gift.  

You're most likely wondering what the gift is...

I found these cute little round dishes and was able 

to find on Etsy this incredible shop that sells dish soap

disks.  Have you heard of them before?

You can use a little brush or sponge to lather

the soap up. 

This is the dish soap disc, I chose the rosemary

mint scent and it's amazing!

The cute little dish....

The soap fits perfectly in the dish!

Using some cello wrap and greenery pipe cleaner 

and ribbon, it's all tied up and ready to gift.

Wrapped in Cheer

Check out these cutie holiday boxes complete with tags. 

This is this month's paper pumpkin,

"wrapped in cheer"

If you have yet to try a paper pumpkin,

they come monthly to your mailbox complete with 

everything you need to create the 

what the kit holds.

This kit has all these cute die cuts all ready to go.

As well as boxes to add the tags to.

Are you working on any holiday crafts?

Friendsgiving 2025

Friendsgiving 4.0!

Love watching my youngest and her hubby gather their friends together each

year to celebrate one another through friendship and gratitude.

Shae does an amazing job with cooking, the decor and her tablescape!

After two turkeys and lots of baking and cooking,

we were able to seat all 22 of their guests.

thankful for costco tables!

She went the extra mile this year by hand embroidering personalized napkins for each guests in different fall colors.   Love this! a labor of love for sure!

Her tables were gorgeous with homemade dinner menus,

dried fruit and dried hydrangeas.  

It's so rewarding watching the next generation gather friends together

and share traditions...... my heart is full! 

Mini Starbuck's cups

Now is the time to order!

The mini starbuck's cups are available as well as 

the mini dunkin donut cups.

You can pick your color straw as well.

They are great to give to friends, teachers, coworkers,

and as I have learned from my customers,

for newborn shoots!

Here are the two cups available.....

you can order them HERE

at my Etsy shop- 2340 West Newton. 

Below in the picture are the available colors of straws you

can pick from......

Order early! 

Dollar Tree Candy Cane

Happy wednesday!

Have you seen these LED light up candy canes?

they are now at the Dollar Tree and they will sell out fast.

I forgot to take a picture of them lit up, but boy are they cute.

What I decided to do was to use Christmas ribbon I had on hand

to cover the candy canes and make a bow to attach to them.

I'm sure you are asking if they still light up if they are covered and they do!

To make them you will use your glue gun to tack down at the bottom of the candy cane your first piece of the ribbon you choose.

Start wrapping the ribbon tightly, going slowly all the way til you get to the end where you will glue the tip.

Then make your bow and hot glue it to the candy cane.

If you don't want a bow, you can always add some greenery instead. 

You can set these out on the porch or put them in the ground,

also set them up inside your home or like I show you, at your hearth. 

Wooden Tree ornaments

Let the wild rumpus begin!

The holidays are just around the corner,

here is a fun craft for you to try.

These are wood slices that I found in a pack of 5 at Michael's.

For this project you will need:

a green ribbon, I also chose a black and white one

a glitter pom pom or a ribbon you can tie into a bow and add to the tree top. 

Some white acrylic paint, and glitter.

Cut your ribbon into 2" in strips, you will cut 15 pieces.

Using your glue gun, put a small amount of glue on the end and

make a loop like you see in the photo above. Make 15 of these,

they will be your branches for the tree.  

They will look like this.....

set them aside and take your wood round and using a brush,

paint the bottom of the wood slice.  It will dry quickly, once it does add your glitter.  Now, using a pencil, dip it in the white paint and gently add little dots all over the wood rounds for the snow.  

For the tree trunk, you can us a small piece of cinnamon stick

or go outside and find a small twig. 

What ever you use, glue it to the round and continue by adding 

the tree pieces.  To do this start at the bottom of the tree,  I used 4 pieces and then kept adding layers til I got to the top of the tree,

where I added the glitter pom pom.  I love how they turned out!!!

Would you try and make one?

If so,  send me your pictures! 

Here is the green one too. 

Thanksgiving Tablescapes

Get your thanksgiving tables ready!

Here are a few tablescape ideas to motivate and prepare

you!  Each table has it's own style. 

This one is neutrals with a mix of greens.....

This one is with the popular color this fall,

I opted to bring the outdoors in by cutting some of branches of leaves

to enhance the table. 

And this last one is with pomegrantes, fresh fruit.

A few ideas to get you planning for your guests!

And one more, palms from my yard coupled with different brown hue candles... super easy!  little plastic domes filled with Trader Joe's pumpkin spice Jo Jo's and a chocolate. 

                

Thanksgiving White Hydranga pumpkin

Happy wednesday!

If you can believe it,  these hydrangeas are from my daughter's wedding back on August 31st.

I dried them back in the beginning of August so they would be

all done and ready by her wedding August 31st.

How you do this is quite easy,

to start, take a rubber band and stretch it around the middle of the pumpkin.

 Now taking small amounts of the dried hydrangea, start to add them around the pumpkin.  Keep going.......

           

                  Keep adding til you get the desired look you like.       

               

The rich colors of sage and wine and cream are perfect for 

your Thanksgiving table.

These hydrangeas were all forged from my neighbors yard! 

All done! 

And can you believe these have been dried since august and still strong in color?   I'm going to be using this one along with some smaller ones for my thanksgiving table this year.

Halloween spooky dinner

It's been a few days since I've posted.

The days got away with me with Halloween and all.

As you know I plan a dinner each Halloween that I have dubbed

as "spooky" dinner. 

Here is the table set up and the food I served this year. 

I should have lit everything up before posting it,

it gives off a creepy vibe all lit up.

For the green salad I cut some ghosties out of mozeralla cheese,

using a straw to punch the eyes out.

The mushroom skellies I also used a straw for the eyes and then a sharp knife for cutting the mouth,  Come in for a bite! 

This is a lemon meringue pie my girlfriend brought to contribute

for the dinner. More ghosties! 

For the main course I made a killer lasagna complete with these very creepy eyeballs.  I used round mozzarella balls and cut a small hole in them to fit the green olive.  You can use a small bit of black olive for the center of the eye. 

Also add a piece of prosciutto for the iris center. 

The food was delish!