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Photo Friday.

Cookies (1 of 1)

‘Tis the season to be baking!

(Yes, Christmas is over, but the baking SO is NOT.)

Ads in December : Who are They?

hollycampcards

Hello and welcome to the December advertisers!

Holly Camp Cards

Would you prefer a white Christmas or tropical Christmas? I would always prefer a white holiday season to something tropical! I’ve always loved the snow, and really – the more the better. My lifelong philosophy is being tested this year though… I was …

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Toddler DIY.

Paper

Merry Christmas!

Hopefully you’re relaxing and not working and with family like we are. (If not, my sympathies! I so did that last year and it sucked.)

Family time aside, I wanted to share with you a super easy, pretty fun way to wrap gifts AND entertain a toddler all at the same time.

This …

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Photo Friday.

betterSanta

I’m not sure why I cared about Gabe visiting Santa, probably since my mom has a wall of Santa photos from each year and it’s fun to look at Christmastime (from tiny newborn Ashley alone to my senior year of high school with four other siblings).

I told the woman …

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Days, Months, Years.

The first few days of Gabe’s life were some of the slowest, sweetest days of my life.

I remember thinking, “Oh! It’s past 2:16 am! He’s three days old!”

Every morning, I declared, “X days old is my favorite age.” I was smitten. And already mourning a time when I wouldn’t measure Gabe’s life in …

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Quilted Stockings : A Step-by-Step Tutorial

Stockings (3 of 25)

Let me start off by telling you that I am not in the tutorial business. There are plenty of bloggers who do plenty of tutorials, but when I was looking for a tutorial to make stockings, I was unable to find what I was looking for – so I had to wing it. I thought …

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