Archive for the 'Holidays' Category

Frugal, Unique and Meaningful Valentine’s Day Gift & Date Ideas, Plus Budget Tips

Undoubtedly, the only thing worse than having a “cheap date” is being called one. But in the current economic atmosphere when one should be more concerned with prudence in spending habits, a frugal date, in my mind, is something to be lauded rather than repudiated.
After all, dating is all about finding the person you will [...]

Make Something Useful Out of Your Christmas Tree

This is a re-post of one of our earliest articles first published February 27, 2008.
Conversion of a Common Coniferous Conundrum
When we moved into our own home, my sister and I decided to make our first Christmas a memorable one, which included the purchase of a 7 foot tall Christmas tree. Another occasion which came [...]

Free Printable Templates: Christmas Candy Stripe and Plaid Carrier Gift Bags

With Christmas almost upon us, here are some last minute gift bag templates for the eleventh hour shoppers and gift wrappers. The Small carrier bags measure approximately 4 1/2″ tall, and the Mini carrier bags 3 1/2″ if printed on an 8 1/2″ x 11″ piece of paper.
The images are large enough to be [...]

Free Printable Templates: Holiday Snowflake Gift Tags, Treat and Mini Carrier Bags

Here are some free printable templates for Holiday gift bags and tags designed by Madoline Hatter. Feel free to print them for your personal use. This is a snowflake design on various shades of blue background and includes carrier bags, treat bags and gift tags.
Suggestions: Gift tags can be printed on cardstock paper and tied [...]

Favorite Christmas Memory

The topic for this month’s PF Bloggers Group Writing Project is our Favorite Christmas Memories. My favorite memory is our first Christmas in our own house, which was 2006. We bought our house in November 2005, but we had to travel out of the country to attend a cousin’s wedding – actually we were bridesmaids [...]

Freebies: Printable Paper Toy Soldiers Ornaments

I remember when I was very little, flipping through a very old book and seeing a craft project  for making toy soldiers with toilet paper tubes. The image has come to mind now and then and I got the idea to make printable toy soldiers. They come four on a page. Print on card stock [...]



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