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Christmas Traditions

November 25, 2015Christmas, TraditionsAnise candy, Christmas, Christmas oreo treats, Christmas printables, Christmas rice krispie treats, Christmas traditions, Easy Nativity costumes, easy no fail fudge, easy peanut clusters, fringed fleece blankets, Nativity Costumes, recipe for salted caramel, Sinterklaas party, the white envelope story, the white envelope traditionRita

Today I thought that it might be fun to share some of our Christmas Traditions! This is a lengthy post, but you have all weekend…right? :)

But before I start this post…I would like to wish everyone a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving weekend! I hope that you get to do something that you love with people that you love!

One of our Christmas traditions that we do is to donate blankets and quilts to one of our local hospitals. We start this in November or even before. I try to make a few quilted quilts and then we all tie several fringed fleece blankets. (click on link for tutorial on how to make these easy fleece blankets)

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Sinterklaas Party 2014

December 8, 2014Christmas, Parties"ites" book, Christmas, Christmas party, Christmas party ideas, family traditions, fringed fleece blankets, holiday party, knitted dishcloth, pattern for knitted dishcloth, peanut clusters, Santa Claus, service project, Sinterklaas party 2014, snowflake sprinkle cookiesRita

We had our annual Sinterklaas party last night and boy am I tired this morning! It was a lot of fun…but a lot of work! We celebrate Sinterklaas day because my oldest son served a mission for the church in the Netherlands. I have always loved the idea of welcoming in the Christmas Season with Santa! We then celebrate the spiritual side of Christmas on Christmas Eve. Continue reading →

Top Ten Posts for 2013

January 22, 2014Candy, cooking, Crafts, Desserts, For the Home, Gift ideas, Patterns, Preparedness, Printables, Recipes, Sewing, Tutorialscute car kit, DIY fabric softener, easy to make fringed blanket, easy to sew zippered poucj, easy way to paint wood letters, family wooden letters, fringed fleece blankets, gift ideas, how to make a car kit, how to make a zippered pouch, how to make fringed blanket, how to make peanut clusters, lemon raspberry muffins, muffin recipe, no sew fringe blanket, peanut clusters, printable recipe book dividers, printable Thursday's thought, printable visiting teaching handout, printables, recipe book dividers, recipe for lemon raspberry muffins, sugar-crusted lemon raspberry muffins, Thursday's Thought, visiting teaching handouts, wood letters, zippered pouchRita

I posted this a couple of weeks over at I Should Be Mopping the Floor, and I wanted to post it here for you today!

These were my top 10 posts in 2013!

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Blanket Delivery

March 14, 2012Crafts, Family, ServiceBlanket delivery, fringed fleece blankets, hospital, ribbon, serviceRita

Yesterday I did a tutorial on how to make the fringed fleece blankets and I was able to get eight of these made and ready for delivery to a local hospital. We are doing this project because one of my granddaughters was recently in the hospital and she received a blanket like this and it made her so happy that I decided to pay it forward to some other sick children.

On Sunday afternoon after we had dinner, I talked all of the girls into helping me tie up the blankets to get them ready for delivery to the hospital. As you know, my motto is that ribbon makes everything cuter! So we tied up the blankets with different colored ribbons. We have 4 boy blankets and 4 girl blankets ready to go! Continue reading →