WINTER
This category offers tips, inspiration and solutions for Everyday Living during the WINTER Season. Design, Decorating, Recipes, Tablescapes, Entranceway Design, Gifting and more. All about living with the season.
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Root Vegetable Soup with Herb Croutons {#SundaySupper}
Few dishes can comfort your body and your soul on a cold winter day than a hearty soup. This Root Vegetable Soup with Herb Croutons will chase away any chill and is perfect served for a weekday dinner or lunch on a snow day. Each year my husband and I pack up our winter clothes and head out west for our annual ski + snow board trip. The last few years we have be able to meet up with family and friends to spend the week enjoying the cold weather and if we are lucky a snow storm or two. It has become my tradition on these ski trips to…
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Bailey’s Bonfire Spiked Warm Milk + Chocolate
Few things can warm you through to your toes after a day on the slopes like a Bailey’s Spiked Warm Milk. This version adds a toasted marshmallow sweetness to the top layer along with shaved dark chocolate. Sip as you watch the flurries out the window. If you are feeling really decadent, try adding a dash of cardamom to the milk mixture or even drop a few chocolate chips in. BAILEY’S BONFIRE COCKTAIL INGREDIENTS 3 cups whole milk 1/2 cup Bailey’s Irish Cream Liqueur large marshmallows dark chocolate shavings METHOD In a small saucepan, add milk and Bailey’s. Turn on medium heat and let mixture warm up. Stir to combine…
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How to Make Christmas Star Ornament Placecards. {DIY VIDEO}
In this video for eHow I will show you how to make Christmas Star decorations with salt dough. I grew up putting salt dough ornaments on my tree and haven’t made them in a very long time. It is time to bring this easy and fun craft back. This year I am going to use them as place cards on my Holiday Table. Each one is stamped with the guest’s name to let them know where to sit and then they can take it home to place on their tree. SUPPLIES Flour Salt Water Rolling Pin Star Cookie Cutter Straw Parchment Paper Extra Flour Ribbon Stamp & Ink Pad…
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Easy Christmas Mantle Decorations. Christmas Trees + Candles
Candle lights and Christmas trees can create quite the fire hazard if you’re not careful. Make candle lights and Christmas trees the safe way in this video for eHow. Click the image to start the video or if the image does not appear CLICK HERE. Many years ago, Christmas trees were decorated with actual candles, and the candles were attached to the boughs of the trees. And, as you can imagine, this was quite a fire hazard! So, luckily, fast-forward to today. We have many different ways to decorate with candle lights and Christmas trees that do not require an open flame – specifically, speaking of battery-powered candle lights,…
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Decorating Christmas Garland with Burlap Ribbon
Decorating Christmas garland with ribbon is easy and a nice way to personalize it for your decor needs. Garland can be used around doorways, but it can be also used on a mantel above a bookcase, or perhaps along a buffet if you’re entertaining. Click the image to start the video or if the image does not appear click here. In this video for eHow, I discuss how to decorate Christmas garland with ribbon. Click the image above or click here to start the video. You may have plain green garland that you would like to decorate, and you want to add a little bit of pizzazz, this project is perfect for…
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Are you ready for overnight visitors? How to prepare your guestroom.
An experienced host knows that entertaining doesn’t just happen around the table. The guest experience begins the moment you decide to invite visitors to gather. As it relates to the physical environment, it may include spaces away from your home or spaces around and in your home you may not at first consider such as the entranceway, the powder room and your guest room, just to name a few. Click to Tweet : “Entertaining doesn’t just happen around the table.” In many homes the guest room is also an office, craft room or a place where everything lands until the next knock on the door occurs and you run to…
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Mapo Tofu Recipe from #SteamyKitchen Healthy Asian Favorites
Jaden Hair, first “came into my life” in 2009 at the social media conference Social Fresh . My boyfriend at the time, now my husband, was representing an online course and she had stopped his table to get more information on SEO and building an online presence. She obivously made an impression, after the event he gave me her name and said I should look her up. A few months later, after I had moved to Florida, I went to my first networking event and it just so happened to be the book launch for her first book, 101 Asian Recipes Simple Enough for Tonight’s Dinner. Last year I attended…
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Family Style Tablescape: Houston’s Chicken Tortilla Soup
During the time I commuted from Bucks County, PA to work in New York we would always make it a point to keep our schedules open on Tuesdays to ensure we could get out for lunch. Why? Because Tuesdays are the only day Houston’s serves it’s Chicken Tortilla Soup. You may think, how can one recipe be that much better? Well I’m not exactly sure, but it is. Believe me. The bad news: Houston’s doesn’t officially post the recipe. The good news: I found a few other loyalists that have shared what seems to be pretty darn close version of it. I did make a few adjustments and wasn’t able…
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Show Your Valentine Some Tablescape Love!
Valentines Day is more than just about a romantic dinner. Show the ones you love, how much you care for them at each meal of the day. These tablescape inspiration work for breakfast, lunch and dinner. VALENTINE’S DAY BREAKFAST TABLESCAPE Start the day off right. A DIY “Be Mine” note card placed on a breakfast plate says you are special to me. Add candy conversation hearts and your love is sure to head into the day with a smile. VALENTINE’S DAY LUNCH TABLESCAPE Setting a Lunch time Valentines table is sure to surprise your loved ones. Use layered red doilies under a salad plate to add color to the table.…
- CHRISTMAS, ENTRANCEWAY DESIGN, EVERYDAY LIVING, GARDENS, HOLIDAYS, SEASONAL DECORATING, WINTER, Winter Gardens
Seasonal Cut Greens Bring Color to Your Entranceway Containers
Winter temperatures and cloudy skies can leave garden containers looking less than attractive. Placing cut greens like such as Pine boughs and Magnolia trimmings along with Red Dogwood branches, and Pinecones will add life and texture until they can be replanted. Most will be available in your yard but if not, head to a farmers market or inquire at a local nursery for a source. Enjoy this post? What did it inspire you to do? Let a comment below and share the love with your friends using the social share button. Complete the form below to receive weekly updates to your inbox.
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A Reflective Holiday Table
Looking to create a tablescape for a special gathering and not sure where to start? Begin with one item to create your INSPIRATION. It can be a color, a texture, a word, your favorite vase, the holiday itself, anything will work. For this tablescape it was the mirror top of the Antique French dinning table recently acquired and delivered in time for the holiday gathering. Using mercury glass vases, bowls and votives to line the center of this long table allowed for each piece and flower to reflect creating an amazing display. Additionally, the blue paint of the walls of the room was mirrored in the blue of the Seeded Eucalyptus and blue…
