The Holiday Bake, Craft, Sew Along is BACK!
The amazingly talented Cindy and Kelly and I have teamed up again to bring you 30 days of Handmade Christmas gift ideas!
Do you want some Sewing Inspiration for Holiday Gift Ideas? Skip To My Lou has those!
How about some new Craft Ideas for handmade Holiday Gifts? According to Kelly has those!
Need ideas for Homemade Food Gift ideas for the Holidays? I’ll have those here!
You can visit each of our blogs every day in September for great inspiration for all your Handmade Holiday Ideas!!
I’m so happy to have Sandy guest posting and sharing her delicious recipe and sparkling personality with y’all today! Without further ado —
Hello, Friends! Sandy Coughlin here from Reluctant Entertainer. I’m so honored to be a guest at Rachel’s today, and to be a part of the Holiday Bake, Craft and Sew-a-Long.
Today I want to share a little about holiday baking and easy ways of giving to others.
The beauty of the holidays is that you can embrace nostalgia on your own terms. Over at Reluctant Entertainer, I encourage my readers to put their hesitation aside and reach out to others, by either inviting people into their homes, hosting a small dinner party or a casual get-together, or even what I call, “taking your hospitality with you,” … reaching out to others by giving small gifts of love.
The holidays can be a very emotional time for many, because our pasts creep in, creating feelings both bittersweet and beautiful.
But today I’d love to encourage you to reach deep, and to think of a fun holiday cookie that you enjoyed as a kid.
Embrace those happy memories (or create some new ones if you can’t find “happy”), and think of ways to give out this year.
There’s nothing better than giving. Keep your ideas simple and sweet. Think of those who mean a lot to you, new and old friends, and remember that food is a great way to say, “I love you.”
Embrace the beautiful and the good.
I’m so happy to share with you a childhood recipe that my mom made every year, as far back as I remember as a little girl, up until the year she passed away. Snowball cookies were a part of our Christmas diet. They melt in your mouth and they provide comfort.
Today I’m sharing a new version that has a little secret inside … Dove Chocolate-Covered Almonds. Oh, boy! A little treat inside a big treat.
Christmas doesn’t get any better than packaging up a few classy treats, and then giving them away.
It’s the thought that counts. Small, simple, inexpensive, yet festive, wintery and tasty – is what I love to give.
Ideas on how to package Christmas cookies:
Dollar Store plates
Dollar Store or Clearance baskets
Canning quart-sized jars with a cute, cut-out Christmas top (over the lid)
Decorated brown lunch bags
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Speaking of nostalgia, I’d also love to share with you something I did to remember my mom after she passed away a few years ago.
I took her handwriting off of an old Christmas box, and I copied it over onto beautiful plates for myself and my sisters, so we could remember this beautiful woman who raised us and taught us so much about the true meaning of Christmas.
(You can read more about this craft idea over at my blog, HERE.)
Wow do I love that idea. Thanks for sharing it. I cannot wait to try this one out!
Great cookie gift idea and copying your Mom’s writing onto plates was such a brilliant and creative idea. What a treasured keepsake you made.
wow..I soo much love the idea!! Going to try this one for sure and if I like it will blog about it as well 🙂 Thanks for sharing.
Cute! That looks like a cute and yummy holiday cookie gift! You gals are on it! this season!!
Chris Ann & Kristin
so sweet in the jar…..If I could find the plaid jar lids I would buy a million. I love those .
thanks sandy for the recipe and the sweet perfume of hospitality you bless me with every time I visit the reluctant entertainer. thank you southernfairytale for hosting this .
Love this idea! Thanks for helping us get ready for the holidays!
Heard about your Event on Skip to My Lou.
Love the new twist that you added to the cookie recipe. Yummy!
I love Sandy – and I absolutely love these snowball cookies. I used to eat them as a kid too!
Thanks for all these amazing ideas – I’m looking to throw a homemade Christmas this year and I’m just soaking up all this inspiration!
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