My mother always made sugar cookies around Christmas time, and I've tried several recipes over the years, easy to roll out recipes, lots of butter recipes, you name it. I've finally found my favorite and adapted it to my tastes, using almond and vanilla extract. These are not beginner cookies, the dough gets gets soft… Continue reading Cookie Time!
Tag: Christmas
Tamale Ugly Christmas Sweater
Ugly Christmas sweaters have been around since the fifties, but really took off at the turn of the millennium (that phrase makes me feel old) with Ugly Christmas Sweater parties. I remember growing up in the nineties these weren't really a thing, and there definitely weren't 4 or 5 companies exclusively selling them, like Tipsy… Continue reading Tamale Ugly Christmas Sweater
Mini Tree Skirt
This isn't a dupe per se as these little skirts do not cost much, but I have a ton of Christmas fabric leftover from some stockings I made years ago that I need to use. Also, the base of our tree is getting a little banged up, so it needs a cover. Our mini tree… Continue reading Mini Tree Skirt
Glitter Bomb
It seems a decade or so ago store executives decided that all decor from Halloween to Christmas needed to be covered generously in glitter. Now I love shimmer as much as the next woman, but I hate finding glitter on the floor, on my cloths, or on my face. So I decided to do a… Continue reading Glitter Bomb
Christmas Hoop Dupe
I saw a similar hoop on Grandin Road that I though would look great above my little bar cart, however it cost a cool 200 bucks. Knowing I could do something similar for less I went and got my Christmas ornaments from the top of the garage. I wasn't able to find any conical shaped… Continue reading Christmas Hoop Dupe
The Dupery 