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Decorating Ideas For The Holiday Table

Whether you’re dining with family or a group of friends, a beautiful Christmas table really sets the mood for a wonderful evening. Here’s some festive ideas: or some body part fell off. Why not put these holiday trinkets to good use this year for your table setting? Lay ornaments in glass bowls either in a
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Christmas Tree Farms Open For Business

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Some want trees early – too early. Others want the tallest available, or taller than they’ve got. These days, short-needled trees are most popular among families buying trees to recreate a childhood Christmas scene of the late ’60s. Those are trends observed by local Christmas tree growers who traditionally open their gates the end of
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Choosing A Natural Tree For The Holidays

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For those of us who celebrate a more “natural” Christmas by using a real tree, there is no more telling sign that the festive season has arrived than the intoxicating aroma of a fresh Christmas tree in the house. If brought indoors and decorated too early, a natural Christmas tree will be pretty dry by
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Not Looking Forward To Christmas?

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Almost all my friends and I have reasons to dislike, or even dread the coming of Christmas. Oh, I go through the motions – I shop, I clean, I cook – because it’s expected (isn’t that what grandmas do?) I make piles of gingerbread men, squares of shortbreads, and sugar-cookie Christmas trees. And I decorate
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Highlight Of The Year

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Do you remember the one-room schools where the Christmas concert was the highlight of the year? Plays, skits, poems and songs made up the program, along with the nativity pageant, which gave us the reason for Christmas. I attended a one-room school where Grades 1 to 8 were taught. In early November the classes waited
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Make A Low-Budget Christmas Wreath

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I think it is partly because of my upbringing on a not-so-prosperous Saskatchewan farm and partly due to my abhorrence of waste and rampant consumerism, but I take great pleasure in making things “from scratch” or using someone else’s castoffs to create something useful and beautiful. There is lots of opportunity to do just that
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Tips For Holiday Spending

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Just as eating too much holiday food ruins a waistline, too much holiday spending can ruin a budget. Save yourself from this stress by mapping out your spending in advance. Prepare an overall holiday budget using realistic expenditures and stick to it. Set realistic spending limits. Take a hard look at what you can spend
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The Jacksons – for Oct. 28, 2010

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“ Idon’t know if I can take it for another year.” Rose Jackson shivered as a cold gust of wind rattled the dining room window and a low-grey cloud obscured the sun. “Already the cold is making my knees hurt,” she added. Andrew lowered his newspaper a few inches to look at his wife. “According
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Last-Minute “Christmas Tree”

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Perhaps you are downsizing, or you have moved into smaller accommodations, or you are spending much of the Christmas season elsewhere. If you had decided not to have a Christmas tree this year but are beginning to think the place looks a little bare, there is a simple solution. You can create a substitute Christmas
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Thoughts On Christmas

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The parcels for family and friends are mailed and the cards sent. The tree has been cut and decorated and presents are wrapped and placed underneath. The fancy tablecloths and doilies are ironed, waiting to decorate the tables. When am I going to stop this race towards the deadline of December 25? What are we

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