Here’s one of my favorite and super-easy Christmas sweets. Pretzel and Nut Bark 3 cups semisweet chocolate chips 1 cup thin pretzels broken into small chunks 2/4 cup salted nuts of any kind (I use mixed nuts) 1/3 cup white chocolate chips or almond bark 2 Tablespoons (more or less) of Christmas colored sprinkles (any [...]

We’ve made oodles of cookies and sweets this year – many of them the old standby recipes like peanut butter fudge, chocolate chip cookies and magic cookie bars. I thought I’d share one of my favorite indulgences this time of year that’s maybe not so ordinary, but very easy. Cream Cheese Cookies 1/2 pound butter, [...]

Today’s Name of Jesus was Star or Bright Morning Star.  I wanted to find a fun star ornament craft and after a quick internet search, I landed on this one that was perfect. Materials: Pipe Cleaners Pony Beads Fishing line or string What To Do: Cut five pipe cleaners approximately 4 1/2″ and three approximately [...]

These turned out so cute, and they were fairly easy for a beginning to intermediate sewing project. Draw the shape onto a piece of felt, making it about 1/4″ bigger than you’d like the finished product to be. Double the felt and cut out the front and back pieces at the same time. Decide which [...]

School is slowing down a bit for the next three weeks.  (Yay! – Shhh, don’t tell my kids I just cheered about that!)  Besides all the real-life skills that come with writing Christmas cards, baking cookies, budgeting for gifts, crafting and such, I’m planning to keep some “real” school alive with the following: Among anytime [...]