Chocolates for Christmas

Just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Since my giveaway is done, Whew, I have been busy with other fun Christmas Projects. One of them being these...homemade chocolates. Yumm! Every year I make them with my Mom.  We'll ....she makes the delicious fondant and then I help her dip.

Flavors 2009:

Vanilla Nut

Orange Pecan

Chocolate Nut

Maple Brown Sugar Nut

Lemon

Hope your Christmas is filled with lots of things homemade.

Christmas Giveaway Winners.

Drumroll Please:

Thank you everyone who entered! It was fun to host a giveaway for such fantastic products! Thank you to Tom's Design, Malinda's Designs, and Unfortunate Alice for being apart of my Christmas Giveaway.

The lucky winners: Necklace ~ Camille

Scarf ~ Pitrizzia

Headband ~ Camille

Winners, please contact me with your addresses so I can mail you your products.

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

Holly Jolly Sisters Giveaway ~ Malinda's Designs

Holly Jolly Sisters just wouldn't feel like Christmas without hosting a few fabulous giveaways!!

To make sure you get your presents before Santa comes on Christmas Eve the giveaway will end promptly at midnight on the 20th so I can mail your presents early on the 21st.

Third Present ~ Malinda's Designs: Funky Neck Warmer and Scarf

This fun scarf is the perfect accessory for winter. The big buttons and colorful yarn makes this a must have this Holiday. I fell in love with themn as soon as she finished setting up her booth for Art Shoppe. This versatile scarf can be worn in a number of ways and looks good with every outfit. Forgot about those normal scarfs this Christmas and win yourself this funky neck warmer!!

To Enter, Please do any or all of the following:

Visit: Malinda's Designs and leave a comment here, telling me what you love about her scarfs ~ 3 entries

Become a new follower of French knots ~ 2 entry

Become a new follower of Fahrenheit350 ~ 2 entries

Tweet about this giveaway ~ 1 entry

Facebook about this giveaway ~ 1 entry

Blog about this giveaway ~ 2 entries

Buone Feste Natalizie

Holly Jolly Sisters Giveaway ~ Unfortunate Alice

Holly Jolly Sisters just wouldn't feel like Christmas without hosting a few fabulous giveaways!!

To make sure you get your presents before Santa comes on Christmas Eve the giveaway will end promptly at midnight on the 20th so I can mail your presents early on the 21st.

Follow closely for two more days of Holly Jolly Sisters Giveaways!

Second Present: Unfortunate Alice

I absolutely adore Unfortunate Alice's hair accessories. Her beautiful style and exceptionally made product will make you the envy of every eye this Christmas Eve. Even Santa Elves can't make anything this good. Don't miss out on this great opportunity to get this adorable headband with sweet pink flowers and a black polka-dotted feather. I love it!!

To Enter, Please do any or all of the following:

Visit: Unfortunate Alice and leave a comment here, telling me what you love about her hair accessories
 ~ 3 entries

Become a new follower of French knots ~ 2 entry

Become a new follower of Fahrenheit350 ~ 2 entries

Tweet about this giveaway ~ 1 entry

Facebook about this giveaway ~ 1 entry

Blog about this giveaway ~ 2 entries

Feliz Navidad!

Holly Jolly Sisters Giveaway ~ Tom's Designs

Holly Jolly Sisters just wouldn't feel like Christmas without hosting a few fabulous giveaways!!

To make sure you get your presents before Santa comes on Christmas Eve the giveaway will end promptly at midnight on the 20th so I can mail your presents early on the 21st.

Follow closely for three days of Holly Jolly Sisters Giveaways.

First Present: Tom Designs

I am thrilled to be giving away this amazing necklace. Tom Design is a wonderful local Utah jewelry designer and in fact she also sells at Tom and Lucy's and our customers go ga-ga for her designs!! The winner of this necklace will be one of the luckiest gals on Christmas. Hopefully whoever wears it will get a kiss under the mistletoe!!

isn't that butterfly the perfect touch?

Description: This vintage inspired necklace has the perfect feminine touch. A white flower cabochon hangs asymmetrical with nine smoky rose colored glass pearls. Flower cabochon measures 1.25 inches from top to bottom and the pearls are 8 mm round. The necklace chain is antiqued brass, measures 18 inches, and connects with a lobster clasp.

To Enter, Please do any or all of the following:

 Leave a comment here, telling me why you love jewelry ~ 3 entries

Become a new follower of French knots ~ 2 entry

Become a new follower of Fahrenheit350 ~ 2 entries

Tweet about this giveaway ~ 1 entry

Facebook about this giveaway ~ 1 entry

Blog about this giveaway ~ 2 entries

List each entry separately so I can pick a winner quickly!!

Thanks, Kitty and I are wishing you a Holly Jolly Christmas.

Simple, Sweet Felt Ornaments

With only 11 days before Christmas the Holly Jolly Sisters have another craft and foodie pack week full of great Christmas Ideas. Today and I want to show you a fun homemade ornament ideas using one of my most favorite things: FELT. I adore felt. It just makes me happy and feel right at home.

For several years now I have had "Handmade Felt Ornaments" on my to do list for Christmas and 2009 is finally the year I am getting them done. 10 to be exact! These 10 ornaments will look right at home on my Christmas Tree. For you see, I have very strict guidelines when it comes to my Christmas tree. Let me share:

#1 Our Christmas Tree has to be Real.

#2 Only red, white, black, green and glittery ornaments allowed.

#3 White lights only

#4 The ornaments have to look handmade and/or as vintage"y" as possible.

I have been thinking about these ornaments for some time. I knew I wanted them simple and sweet and I knew I wanted them to be hearts. I took my perfect heart shaped cookie cutter and I made a pattern. Then I cut out my felt hearts. I prefer to use boiled wool as often as I can ~ giving it a very by-gone era feel! I stitched around my heart and embroidered a Christmas word in the middle. Other words I used: Noel, Santa, Peace, Love, Cheer, Hope, Jolly etc.

I added a button for the dot on the "j" and a little felt Christmas Tree. I hot glued some ribbon to the back as a hanger and Viola!!

For more Christmas tree trimming hurry on over to at Kitty's Blog. Check out her amazing Festive Fruit Tree.

Christmas Gift Guide

This time of year there are so many people in our lives we want to remember and show we care at Christmas. From our neighbors and friends to our hair dresser, mail man, Teachers and paper boy. Little known fact: there is proper etiquette involved when it comes to giving gifts at Christmas time. I found this site helpful.

Back when Martha was on T.V. (pre-jail sentence) I heard her talk about gift giving etiquette, she said "When going to a party where gifts are being exchanged, even if you can't afford gifts for the adults, children always need a small present." Now that I have children myself, I could agree more.

In our community neighbor gifts are a very popular way to show we care at Christmas. In our neighborhood I have lots of great friends that I love to leave a simple, delicious treat on their door step. Over the three years of living in our neighbor my list has gotten quite long!! Time and cost are always a contributing factor when deciding what to give your neighbors. My neighbor gift tradition has always been to make TOFFEE . I put the toffee in a cellophane bag and wrap it with a pretty bow. I always get lots of ooohs and ahhhs ~ they love it and now my neighbors anticipate receiving toffee from our family. What do you give out as neighbor gifts?

Where not done with gifts yet...Kitty has some great gifts ideas for your pets this Holiday, stop by and see what she has cooking in the Fahrenheit350 kitchen.