Don't forget: Today is the last day to enter the Made in Germany giveaway where over $1100 in prizes are up for grabs! Three winners will be chosen in the US and Europe! Low entries so far -- especially in Europe I almost didn't decorate for Easter this year....
Build a PVC wreath for next Christmas
About a week before Christmas, I saw this incredible idea over on Today's Nest for a fantastically cool Christmas wreath made from PVC pipes. Sam made it sound so simple that we thought, "Hey, let's make two of those before Christmas arrives! One HUGE one for our barn...

Capturing holiday magic
I'm finally starting to get back into my work groove even though Stefan is still on vacation. It's usually not that easy for me, but somehow now that he's been on vacation over a week and the holiday chaos is behind us, I'm ready for work to resume. And I certainly...
My 10 Favorite Christmas Movies
When you live with a little kid, Christmas starts to take on a whole new life again. I've always been a fan of Christmas, but there were definitely a few years before we had Mackenzie that we we starting to feel a bit fed up with all the commercialism. When you've got...

A Chocolate Bark Extravaganza
Late on a Saturday afternoon in 2010, less than two weeks before Christmas, Stefan and I were sitting around in our farmhouse in Germany and thinking about our plans for the rest of the weekend. We'd gone out running errands in the morning, buying everything...

Top 10 lists of last minute gift ideas
It's not too late to WIN a gift for someone else or yourself! NOH is giving away two beautiful handmade picture frames from Mackenzie Frames. Just hop on over to the giveaway page and find out how to enter! Are you still wondering what to get some(most/ALL of the...
Christmas-ify your walls
Several years ago, we bought ourselves a few art prints on canvas that we never thought about framing because we loved them just like they were. As it turns out, that was a very good thing for us this year, because we decided to take a new adventure into Christmas...

Capturing Thanksgiving
I know you're used to seeing my YouCapture contributions on Thursdays, but Beth gave us the assignment of capturing what we ate. Now that would have meant getting in photos of Thanksgiving treats for most...but since we're here in Germany there they don't celebrate...
Last minute Thanksgiving table project
I was skimming through a few of the blogs I haunt and over on Going Home to Roost, Bonnie threw out an idea which I really thought would be fabulous for our Thanksgiving Day table. I have a few more days to get this all pulled together since we're not having the big...

10 Things I’m Thankful For
This will probably be the top ten Tuesday topic of the week, but I'd say that it's pretty darn important for us to all take a few moments and reflect on the things that we are thankful for in our lives. Unfortunately life gets hectic and we forget to be grateful for...


