A gift only you can give. Make it once, give it to many!

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Whether you’re the family’s favorite cook, the custodian of Grandma’s recipe box, or simply a creative lover of food, how about making a

Family Favorites cookbook for your relatives?

This Slideshare shows the pages of a template you can use to make an attractive collection of recipes yourself. Use the scroll bar to see all the pages you can use. Continue reading

Every tradition starts sometime.

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The nicest thing about the holiday season isn’t the parties and the gifts or even the chance to finally dress up.

HowToConsign.org is doing 50 Days & 50 Ways to Have a Merry Recycled HolidayThe real joy is in traditions. Traditions link us to personal and family history. Traditions make us look forward to a season of looking back. The best thing about traditions is that they don’t cost a lot and that anyone…yes, you, in the year 2013…. can start, uphold, or re-fresh them.

Here’s a few traditional holiday Continue reading

Easy to do: A gift-unwrapping seat!

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christmas stool1Step 1: Find a sturdy stool in a consignment, resale, or thrift shop.

Find a shape and a height you like. Don’t worry about the color. Just make sure it’s sturdy. Buy it and take it home. If you find several, buy ’em all. This is gonna be FUN!

Step 2: Make it your own.

christmasstoolPaint it. Gild it. Decoupage it. Sticker it. Feel like you don’t have enough imagination or talent? Then simply Continue reading

Rum, Bourbon, or (if you must) Teetotaler’s Balls

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This great recipe is infinitely variable.* Try one version for Thanksgiving, then make a batch for holiday gifting. Find the perfect presentation plate or tin at a thrift store, resale shop, or consignment boutique!

Rum, Bourbon, or (if you must) Teetotaler’s Balls

The basic recipe from allrecipes.com

* 3 1/4 cups crushed vanilla wafers
* 3/4 cup confectioners’ sugar
* 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder Continue reading

40 Days ’til Christmas & 40 Ways to help your Community!

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It’s now 40 Days to December 25, and you’re probably thinking about how you can clear out your home for the coming festivities, and how you can help other families enjoy their holidays as much as you will yours. Well, it’s simple.

It’s a proud sign of American Continue reading