Tag: Christmas

These cranberry brie bites are such an easy appetizer recipe and they taste sooooo good!! With only 3 simple ingredients they’re also really easy to make! You can use canned cranberry sauce (that’s what I used), but they also taste amazing with leftover cranberry sauce. Either way – YUM!

You know that Christmas baking smell? The one where if you close your eyes you can pretty much feel the excitement (and deliciousness… is that a word?) of the holidays? That is how these cinnamon ornaments smell!  The house was absolutely filled with the sweet scent of cinnamon!

This little paper roll Christmas village mysteriously disappeared, pretty much right after we made it the other day. I swear, I looked away for 2 seconds and my 3 year old had run off with everything – including all of the battery operated tea lights. He called me into my dark master bedroom closet a few minutes later, and he had set up a glowing little Christmas village on my closet floor. The little guy was so proud! He told me to sit on the floor, shut the door behind us and asked me which house I want to live in. Melt my heart, it was so cute!

Hi again! It’s Megan from Homemade Ginger and I’m sharing the cutest ornament craft you’ve ever seen today. I know you will love these melted snowman ornaments as much as I do and they are so easy to make!

This post is in partnership with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. As always, the opinions are entirely my own. 

Hello! I’m Megan and I blog over at Homemade Ginger where I love to share all about modern craft tutorials, home decor projects and the occasional recipe that make life a little more beautiful.

So, you’ve wrapped all your gifts, right? (Ha! In a perfect universe, where you actually have 2 hours to yourself, maybe… Believe me, I get it.) But let’s say that you have wrapped them. You’ve cut perfect rectangles of wrapping paper, and you’ve carefully folded and taped the gifts closed. What did you do with all of the wrapping paper scraps? It drives me crazy when I have a 6″ wide strip of fancy wrapping paper leftover when I wrap something. Do you save it? Do you throw it away? What do you do with it?

I totally did it you guys! I pulled out my rolling pin and cookie cutters AND I made homemade icing AND used a piping bag. Holy cow, it was a busy day in this household! It might not sound like a lot, but I’m a total newbie at this. I haven’t used my rolling pin since we first got married. And I’ve never ever made homemade icing before. Ever. I’m not convinced I made it with the right consistency, but it was delicious, and my Christmas tree sugar cookies turned out beautifully! So I’ll count it as a win!

It has been way too long since we last pulled out the sidewalk chalk! And since it’s too cold to play outside, what better way to use it than in an awesome Christmas art project!

You know that excited feeling you get when you walk down the Christmas aisle and it’s Just. So. Sparkly. You just want to buy everything? (It can’t just be me who feels that way?) When I was in university, my sister and I shared a townhouse and the first Christmas we spent there together, we went to the hardware store and bought a Christmas tree, tinsel and tons of ornaments to put on it.  And I mean TONS of ornaments (and lights for that matter…).