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Recipe: Holiday Treats 2025
Holiday Treats 2025! It’s time to bake up and make some sweet treats for this holiday season. Last year in 2024 we made a few different recipes, and this year the only repeat are the caramel twists. Have you tried these yet? If not, they’re so good. Okay, let’s bake up. Holiday Treats 2025 The caramel twists lasted about 10 days last year, I wonder if they’ll last that long this year. Doubtful! The holiday crack is one thing I didn’t make this year because…
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Recipe: Christmas Treats 2022
Christmas treats – which the special day being tomorrow, hopefully you’re all set and ready! If not, here are a few last minute holiday treats you can make. Most likely you’ll have these ingredients on hand so no added trip to the store. Okay, let’s get baking! Christmas Treats – Recipes In the mood for a quick recipe from a box of cake mix and some icing? These cake truffles are good (and even better frozen). Even if you don’t have the time to cover…
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Recipe: Cake Truffles
Cake truffles – and they’re gluten free. These sweet and chocolaty bite sized treats are quick and easy to whip up for the holidays. Plus, they taste far better than boxed cake mix and a jar of icing – even thought that’s exactly what they’re made of! Okay, let’s bake up. Ingredients box of gluten free cake mix ingredients for the cake mix jar of cream cheese icing 1 cup of gluten free chocolate melts 1/2 cup of red, white and green sprinkles First, make…
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Sewing: Christmas Tree Skirt
A Christmas tree skirt – it’s so adorable and fits well with our farmhouse holiday style. Do you remember the Holiday Home Tour from 2016? Well this tree skirt matches our stockings – it’s super fun. I’m making a 60 inch diameter circular tree skirt. Let’s get started! Christmas Tree Skirt Supplies 72 inches of 3 inch wide faux fur 2 yards of 60 inch wide fabric pins serger sewing machine matching thread I made mine double sided, so if you’re going to do that,…
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Project: Pinecone Wreath
A winter pinecone wreath. Don’t be fooled, this wreath is heavy and big! It’s 24 inches and my guess is it weights about 18 pounds. Those pinecones and glue are heavy. This is a standard pinecone wreath that you can dress up for Autumn, Halloween, Christmas or even Valentine’s day with just the addition of a colourful bow. Makes this wreath far more versatile. Pinecone Wreath Supplies Pinecones – about 78 Wire wreath – 24 inches Fabric – about 1/2 a yard Glue gun and…
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Project: Holiday Home Tour
The holidays aren’t over – it’s still boxing day. I wanted to share all the projects I worked on this holiday season in once place and I thought, what a better way to do it than a holiday home tour! For this little project I let you into my home and show you how all the sewing tutorials and projects are on display in real life – not just staged. Want to know which projects are hand made? Check it out the list below! Tutorials…
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Sewing: Week Fifty Two: Christmas Stockings and Pillows
Christmas stockings and pillows. It’s time to get sewing. Christmas is tomorrow! Tomorrow?! That’s flat out exciting. Today I’m going to share my last sewing post of the series 52 Weeks of Sewing. Yes, I’ve done a sewing project a week for the last year and it’s coming to a close. This week I’m combining two tutorials. I’ve already done versions of these, yet I’ve got a bit of an update for this year. These Christmas stockings and pillows are coordinated and festive. Let’s get…
