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My First HodgePodge: HodgePodge #1

December 25, 2020

HodgePodge #1: My First HodgePodge

Sweet friends, welcome to hodgepodge #1!  All year I have enjoyed reading Lea’s (from Cici’s Corner) monthly responses to the hodgepodge questions posed by Joyce on her blog.  But I wasn’t sure who Joyce was or where she blogged so I could get the questions in order to play along, too.  Never occurred to me […]

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10 on the 10th 12.2020: 10 Holiday Traditions

December 10, 2020

10 on the 10th 12.2020: 10 Holiday Traditions

  Sweet Santa’s elves, thanks for popping in for 10 on the 10th 12.2020.  Today we are sharing 10 holiday activities or traditions.  I have to say, this was a tough prompt for me.  And I came up with it!!  Clearly, we don’t have enough Christmas activities or traditions in my family. If I can […]

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10 Holiday Activities or Traditions

December 3, 2020

10 Holiday Activities or Traditions: 10 on the 10th

Hello weekend…almost!!  Wanted to share the details for this month’s 10 on the 10th: 10 holiday activities or traditions.  I have been most remiss about blogging, reading your blogs and even commenting on comments on my blog.  Not sure how I got so derailed.  But need to do better in 2021.  Hate doing things half-way.  […]

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Holiday home tour

December 22, 2019

My Holiday Home Tour, 12.2019

Welcome, sweet friends!  Couldn’t be the only blogger without a Holiday Home Tour, 12.2019 post!  As of this afternoon, the decorating is done with the exception of my cocoa bar.  And I will put that together this week.  I grabbed my phone and snapped some photos real quick to share with you before the holidays […]

Filed Under: Craft and Create, Life and Style Tagged With: #Christmas, #HolidayHomeTour, #MyHomefortheHolidays

2019 mini Christmas Bucket List

December 21, 2019

My 2019 Mini Christmas Bucket List: Update

  Ho-ho-ho, it’s time to share the update for my 2019 mini Christmas bucket list.  Before reading this update, you might want to read the original post, here.  Typically, I am very enthusiastic about my seasonal bucket list activities.  But this time my heart really wasn’t into it.  I knew as I put together my […]

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mini-Christmas bucket list

November 21, 2019

My 2019 Mini-Christmas Bucket List

Ho-ho-ho, it’s time to share my 2019 mini-Christmas bucket list.  So happy to have you here to help me kick off the festivities.  In 2017, I started making my mini-Christmas bucket lists.  You can read that year’s list, here.  But this time last year, my mom was suicidal and had just been admitted to a […]

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