Christmas bark is the easiest candy you can make in December. You melt chocolate, spread it on a pan, scatter toppings over the top, and let it set. There is...
A snow globe is a small world you can hold in your hands. Shake it, and the snow falls over a tiny tree, a train, or a photo of someone...
Christmas lights are the easiest part of the season to love. They go up on trees, along rooflines, around windows, and suddenly a dark December evening looks warm. Putting that...
A bowl of snack mix is the easiest thing you can put out at a Christmas party, and somehow it is always the first thing to disappear. No slicing, no...
A garland is the fastest way to make a room feel like Christmas. One strand across a mantel, down the stairs, or around the tree, and the whole space changes....
Bows showed up everywhere this year, on dresses, in hair, on gift wrap, and now on nails. For Christmas they make almost too much sense. A small painted bow turns...
A Christmas cookie exchange only works if every cookie on the table can survive the trip there. The best swap cookies are sturdy enough to stack, tasty at room temperature,...
A store-bought stocking does the job. It holds the candy canes and the little gifts, and nobody complains. But a handmade stocking does something a store-bought one can't: it looks...
Holly is the one Christmas motif that never looks dated. A few green leaves, three red berries, and suddenly a plain manicure reads as December. It works on short nails,...
Eggnog divides people. Some wait all year for the first carton to show up in the shops. Others wrinkle their nose at the whole idea. If you are in the...