These three easy-to-make holiday place cards are going to charm your guests.
CREATIVE SOLUTIONS | While place cards can seem a little silly for intimate dinner parties, they make perfect sense when you’re hosting a long-table meal and want to deliberately mix and match up your guests, or you’re doing a sit-down meal with multiple tables and desire a semblance of order.
Here are our three current favourite easy-to-make place card holders, all suited perfectly to this holiday season. Read more
Send Out Fabulous, Free New Year’s Cards
/11 Comments/in Culture & Leisure, HOLIDAY /by EditorNo, Virginia, it isn’t too late to send out gorgeous, free Christmas cards—really.
HOLIDAY 2012 | ’Tis the night before Christmas and all through the house disquietude prevails. Though your intentions were good, you have yet to snail mail holiday greetings to family and friends and you’re feeling like a slouch. Well, maybe you did fumble this one, but it won’t seem that way to your nearest and dearest when they receive a sophisticated holiday card with a personal message delivered directly to their inbox long before Santa slides by. Read more
Why A Christmas Letter Is The Perfect Gift
/4 Comments/in BUY THIS. MAKE THAT., Culture & Leisure, HOLIDAY /by EditorAll I want for Christmas is one simple thing no amount of money can buy.
HOLIDAY 2012 | Somewhere around the first of December every year my kids ask me what I want for Christmas. This year I threw them a curve ball. I don’t need a lot of new stuff, and the few new things I might want (a Vitamix down the road, maybe) are insanely out of their price range anyway. Read more
Where To Find Baker’s Twine In Metro Van
/2 Comments/in CANADIAN CONTENT, Goods & Services /by EditorWired and curly have been the most popular ribbons for adding pizzazz to presents; now bakers twine is giving them a run for their money—here’s where to buy it locally.
HOLIDAY 2012 | Blame it on Kinfolk—the magazine that celebrates all things beautiful, simple and uncontrived—or on the makers and lovers of plain-made and plainly presented goods in places like Portland or Brooklyn, or even Etsy, but bakers twine, the string commonly used by pastry shops worldwide to tie up their boxes of baked goods in a way that makes them easy to carry, is the ribbon du jour for stylish Christmas presents. Read more
Why Not Do Spiral Ham This Holiday Season
/12 Comments/in Entertaining, FOOD, Food & Drink, HOLIDAY, View All Food Stories /by EditorOne alternative to the turkey is “going spiral” this holiday season.
EASY & DELISH | So many people I know are casting around for an alternative to turkey for Christmas dinner this year. Turkey for Thanksgiving is immutable, but for Christmas people are experimenting with goose, duck, pork or beef to get away from the same-old gobble-gobble. Read more
Make Gingerbread Man Ice Cream Sandwiches
/3 Comments/in Easy + Quick = Delicious, FOOD, Food & Drink, HOLIDAY, View All Food Stories /by EditorHow to make yummy ice cream sandwiches using gingerbread men—both scratch and cheater versions.
Make Our Favourite 3 Place Card Holders
/6 Comments/in Entertaining, FOOD, Goods & Services, View All Food Stories /by EditorThese three easy-to-make holiday place cards are going to charm your guests.
Here are our three current favourite easy-to-make place card holders, all suited perfectly to this holiday season. Read more
Cool Clay Cookware Is On Sale Right Now
/1 Comment/in Home & Garden /by EditorAll we want for Christmas is the latest clay cookware made from an ancient recipe—at a bargain price, of course.
WHAT TO GIVE | There is something so cool about cooking with equipment that can trace its beginnings back to the days when Christopher Columbus and John Cabot first discovered North America—and if you stew, bake or simmer with the voluptuous clay cookware from the Andean region in Columbia, you will be doing just that. Read more
5 Top Kraft Paper Xmas Gift Wrapping Ideas
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How To Make Designer Votive Holders (VIDEO)
/0 Comments/in Chic & Easy Projects, D.I.Y., DECOR & DESIGN, DIY, HOME, HOW-TO KNOW-HOW, View All DIY Stories, View All Home Stories, View All How-To Stories /by EditorThese designer votive candle holders are surprisingly simple to make. Brendan Power shows you how. (VIDEO)