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Jan 21 2024
Easy DIY Ugly Christmas Sweater Ideas for the Holidays
Ugly Christmas sweaters have become one of the most playful parts of holiday dressing. The whole point is to forget about understated good taste for an evening and embrace blinking lights, pom-poms, tinsel, oversized reindeer, dangling ornaments and as much Christmas cheer as one sweater can possibly hold. Even better, you don’t have to buy …
Jan 21 2024
How to Make Stunning Christmas Wreaths at Home
There is something especially welcoming about a Christmas wreath made from real evergreen branches. Before anyone sees the tree, the stockings or the presents, a wreath on the front door offers the first little glimpse of Christmas waiting inside. And while professionally made wreaths can be beautiful, creating your own gives you complete freedom over …
Jan 21 2024
Easy DIY Christmas Ball Crafts to Decorate Your Home
Christmas ornaments don’t have to come from a box at the store. Some of the prettiest decorations on a Christmas tree are the ones made slowly at the kitchen table with scraps of ribbon, colorful yarn, buttons, felt, paint and a little imagination. DIY Christmas balls are especially fun because one simple ornament shape can …
Jan 19 2024
Heavenly Delights: The Fluffy Bliss of an Old-Fashioned Divinity Recipe
Few homemade Christmas candies look quite as magical as divinity. Snowy white, delicately crisp on the outside and soft and airy within, these little clouds of sweetness have the sort of old-fashioned charm that belongs on a Christmas candy tray. Traditional divinity is made from an unexpectedly short list of ingredients: sugar, corn syrup, egg …
Jan 17 2024
Christmas Ham 101: Everything You Need to Know to Impress Your Guests
For many families, Christmas dinner simply wouldn’t look complete without a magnificent glazed ham in the center of the table. Deeply burnished around the edges, glossy with a sweet-and-savory glaze and sliced into rosy ribbons, it is the sort of centerpiece that announces dinner before anyone has taken the first bite. Fortunately, Christmas ham is …
Jan 14 2024
The Ultimate Guide to Creating Stunning Christmas Tree Bows
Ribbon has an almost magical effect on a Christmas tree. A few carefully placed bows can soften a tree filled with shiny ornaments, introduce a new color without replacing your existing decorations and make even a simple evergreen feel beautifully finished. And Christmas tree bows don’t have to be enormous or complicated. The tree pictured …
Jan 10 2024
5 Christmas Cookie Icing Recipes
Decorating Christmas cookies is one of those holiday traditions that can be as simple or as elaborate as you want it to be. A batch of plain stars, trees, gingerbread people and candy canes becomes something completely different once bowls of red, green and snowy-white icing appear on the kitchen table. The colorful cookies pictured …
Jan 07 2024
DIY Christmas Stockings: Simple Steps for a Personalized Touch
There is something particularly special about hanging handmade Christmas stockings each December. Unlike decorations chosen to match a temporary color scheme, stockings often become part of a family’s Christmas story—brought out year after year, filled on Christmas Eve and eventually associated with particular people and memories. They don’t have to be complicated, either. The colorful …
Jan 04 2024
Tempting Treats: How to Make Irresistible Peanut Brittle from Scratch
Few homemade candies have a texture quite as satisfying as peanut brittle. One moment you’re holding a glossy golden shard studded with roasted peanuts; the next comes that unmistakable snap, followed by buttery caramelized sweetness and plenty of nutty crunch. It is also one of those Christmas candies that looks wonderfully impressive without requiring a …
Dec 31 2023
5 Easy Hacks to Make Your Christmas Tree Look Fuller and More Lush
A beautifully decorated Christmas tree can transform an entire room, but not every tree starts out looking thick, fluffy and perfectly shaped. Real trees can have uneven branches or naturally sparse patches, while artificial trees sometimes look a little thin after spending most of the year compressed inside a storage box. Fortunately, you don’t need …
