Merry Christmas to all my dear friends on this blog!

Christmas is about 2 weeks away and we are still scrambling to get the house ready for Christmas – so I’m trying to hunt down some cushie covers for the living room.  I can’t find anything cheap from Wicker’s Emporium for they are having a sale right about now ! what a bummer!  and the [...]

Christmas Parades are not just for celebrating Christmas alone but for the family to get together.  It is an opportunity to bond and bond is what we did – during the recently Santa’s Parade.  We gathered the entire family and even the in-laws and spent a day out shopping, eating and ultimately enjoying the parade [...]

We went to visit my daughter this weekend at the university she is currently in.  We also brought with us a special christmas tree for her dorm and helped her decorated it – you see this Christmas – she is spending time at the campus instead of coming back as she has a paper to [...]

We have been invited to so many christmas parties and business associates office parties, the first thing i did was make an appointment with a  dip bar if we have one here.   But yes, what do you bring along or give your hostess to thank her or them for inviting you.  Many would ask you [...]

With the holidays around the corner and lots of party and invitation to reply to, we had no time to look at those refurbished laptops that were brought into our home today. Instead i spend time experimenting with making home made gifts for the kind people who had invited us to join them for Christmas [...]

Never too early for Christmas, I’ve always argued with the spouse, just like those who buys the Wii now for their children, I decorate now for Christmas.   But it’s not the Christmas decor that caught my eyes at the Pottery Barn but this mood lamp that one can use on Christmas and throughout the year. [...]

I’ve often wonder how people use cloth napkins clean them and what kind of mess the guests would leave behind with their cloth napkins.  So I started thinking, should i use paper or cloth for my coming festivities?  It would be a lot easier to use paper of course, afterall, paper napkins are just as [...]

We will not be doing our usual Outer Banks vacations with the extended family, therefore i’m looking for entertaining the family here at our home.  While the above is good for the summer, i don’t want my christmas setting to be only green and red.  So i’m in search for a good way to decorate [...]

Hurry now..!!!  Home Fragrance on sale at the body shop.  Buy one and get another for 50% off .. that means you only pay like $5 a bottle… pretty good deal.  A bottle of the home fragrance can last us like a month .. but that because we use it everyday.  For others it can [...]