Natural Autumn Decor

Decorating your entertaining space for Thanksgiving or another autumn event can be as easy and inexpensive as walking out to your yard and gathering a variety of natural accents.

Forget Me Not: Grandparents Day

Grandparents day this year is Sunday, September 6, 2009. My paternal grandparents recently moved away to live with their daughter and seek more affordable health care, but when I was growing up, I was always very close with them.

Death by chocolate cake.

Have you ever wished you could whip up a chocolate cake in a matter of minutes? One that you might devour without having to share it with anyone? The following recipe is just that. You can scarf it down on your own in front of a movie or have an original idea for an activity [...]

Are you being boo’d this Halloween?

I got an email tonight from my sister-in-law telling me how someone in her little neighborhood rang her doorbell and ran away. Sounds like a typical halloween prank, except when she opened the door, she found a nice little treat basket with candy, magnetic frames, a leaf ornament and a candle. What a nice, festive [...]

Pumpkin Decorating Party

Autumn is my favorite season. It’s so magical when the leaves start to turn and fall off the trees, and the lawn becomes littered with bright reds, greens and yellows. It’s the beginning of the holiday season when people are to be visited, food is to be made and parties are to be had. What [...]

Creepy Shrunken Head Cider

I love Halloween. I can still smell the vinyl costumes we used to get from the store when I was young. I always loved this one holiday where it’s okay to dress as crazy as you want, and even if you dress up on the wrong day, no one cares because at this time of [...]