My favorite homemade food gifts for Christmas, the sweet and savory edible gifts I make every year for family, friends and neighbors. My grandmother baked for everyone. Every Christmas her kitchen turned out caramel corn, sometimes loose and sometimes pressed into popcorn balls, along with plenty of other holiday goodies to give away to family…
Gifts for foodies and home cooks, with the kitchen tools, cookbooks and pantry treats I use and love in my own kitchen. My kitchen is where I spend most of my happiest hours, so gifts for foodies are some of my favorite to choose. I bake to relax, I cook for the people I love,…
Gifts for men who have everything, chosen with the help of my husband, who owns and uses every one of them. Men are hard to buy for. At least the men in my life are, because none of them want or need a thing. So every year I go straight to the source and ask…
Anglophile gifts for everyone on your list who loves England, with British books, afternoon tea, classic British brands and a few Christmas traditions. I was fifteen the first time I went to England, and I have been going back ever since. My brother lived there for ten years, which gave us every excuse to return…
Christmas hostess gifts and holiday gift ideas for every dinner party, cocktail party and Christmas Eve on your calendar. The invitations are starting to arrive, and before long it will be time to eat, drink and be merry. If your calendar is filling up, it helps to have a few Christmas hostess gifts tucked away…
Classic Christmas gifts for women over 50, for every woman on your list, including yourself. Are you looking for Christmas gifts for women over 50? Your mother, your aunt, your sister, a dear friend, or yourself? The perfect gift, I think, is the one she would buy herself if she weren’t so sensible. (Most of…
The best gifts for hot chocolate lovers, plus an easy DIY hot chocolate gift basket you can put together in an afternoon. Good morning, friends! Every fall, somewhere around the first cool morning, the hot chocolate moves to the front of the pantry. (I won’t lie, it never really goes to the back. I drink…
This post contains affiliate links. Good morning friends, how are you this fine morning? We are getting off to a slow start, yesterday we moved rugs and more furniture into the house after I scrubbed the floors and then washed everything to try to get rid of the last of the dust. Slowly but surely…
This post contains affiliate links. Good morning friends! It’s a beautiful but chilly Saturday morning here, I am still under the weather so I am going to take it easy today and watch Christmas movies and read books, what are your plans? Speaking of books, I personally think they are the perfect gift . Did…
This post contains affiliate links. Good morning friends, it is a cold, rainy Saturday morning and the day is perfect, because I am sitting next to the fire with my Christmas tree softly glowing in the corner, my pups still asleep and the house calm. I love this time of the day when it seems…
This post contains affiliate links. 27  Christmas books for your kids or grandkids to read this holiday season. Good morning friends!  I have shared several gift lists lately but I haven’t shared my all timefavorite gifts yet, books! Books are the wonderful gifts for both adults and children, they are the gift that “keeps on giving”…
This post contains affliate links. Good evening friends, have you been shopping this weekend? I shopped online Friday and I am completely finished with my shopping. The good news is that if I see any great deals I can shop for myself. I have shared several posts of my favorite deals and if you are…
