Does your family have a tradition of decorating Gingerbread Houses during the Christmas season? I love the idea and even before I had Allie Grace I decorated them each year in my class with my students and then again with my 4-Hers. However, actually assembling the graham crackers into the frame of the house was so [...]
Does your family have a tradition of decorating Gingerbread Houses during the Christmas season? I love the idea and even before I had Allie Grace I decorated them each year in my class with my students and then again with my 4-Hers. However, actually assembling the graham crackers into the frame of the house was so time [...]
This post is entirely too late (just like last year’s post), but in order for me to get back into the swing of things, I need to post it. If I don’t, it’ll continue to bug me. So here it is, some photos from the holiday. No captions because I’m mysterious like that and I don’t want to make photo sharing harder than what it really should be. Plus it’s getting late and I’m hungry. Just keeping it real. {more photos on Flickr} © Sophistishe 2012 | Permalink | 14 comments – Let’s chat!
Here’s an easy, last-minute Christmas gift idea for you to make! (You don’t even have to be “crafty”!) Vanilla Sugar Scrub Combine 1 cup white sugar, 1 cup brown sugar, and 1 tsp. vanilla extract in a bowl. Stir well. Add enough olive oil to give it the texture of wet sand. Place the sugar [...]
If you are anything like me, during the Christmas season, you find yourself saying things like “Santa’s watching….” or “Maybe we’ll need to let Santa know you’d like that for Christmas.” I can’t tell you how many times I cringe at the site of yet another toy commercial coming on the TV, and my kids [...]
Bottlehood. What a beautiful company! All BottleHood glassware is created from wine,beer, liquor and water bottles from local San Diego restaurants, bars and events. BottleHood uses local craftspeople to turn the bottles into great looking glassware, sold by local retailers back into our community. Bottlehood’s glassware has a significantly lower carbon footprint as compared to [...]
For me, shopping for stationary products can be one of those small and joyous pleasures in life. Searching for the perfect style to express my mood; personalizing every fine detail, from the font, to the perfect colors, weight of the card stock, and of course, the center piece….the graphics. I could spend hours, if not [...]
Last Christmas season I found a gorgeous way of wrapping gifts. It’s called Furoshiki. It’s basically artfully tying fabric to make your gift wrap. Furoshiki is super simple, but adds such elegance to any gift. I found the most beautiful designs from a website called Furochic. All of the furoshiki wraps from Furochic are designed [...]
“The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth” By Jennie A. Brownscombe public domain In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn’t [...]
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