Reframing Words — An Easy DIY

I am not a big decorator of all-things-Valentine. In fact, many would be surprised to find out that I rarely decorate for any of the holidays beyond Christmas (of COURSE I decorate for that season…my kids would do it if I didn’t…scratch that…in recent years, they have...

Last-Minute Gift Ideas

With just a few days left until Christmas, you may be frantically searching for some last-minute gift ideas. Our writers got together to share a few of ours. Favorite Things – I have some friends that I’ve been giving gifts to for a long time and after many years of...

Keeping Track of Holiday Spending

Of all of the five love languages, I connect most with gifts. I absolutely adore giving people gifts! Somehow the lights and shimmer of the Christmas season put me under a spell that doesn’t wear off until sometime in mid-January. So it should come as no surprise that...

A Family Tree Gift Everyone Will Love!

With Christmas around the corner, and budgets being stretched farther than ever before, I’ve been looking for ways to include homemade gifts a part of our giving this year. The trouble with homemade gifts though, is that I definitely don’t want to give a gift more...

Finding the Perfect Gift

By Noël Fanti One of my oldest friends celebrated her birthday last week and, after more than ten years of gift-trading, I found myself surprisingly stumped about what her present should be. As I browsed through shelves of scarves, cosmetics, bestselling books, and...