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DIY Nightmare Before Christmas Balls

DIY Nightmare Before Christmas Balls…Halloween 2020 is going to be a little different at our house. Normally we get an atrocious number of trick-or-treaters, 1500+! This year we are blocking off our sidewalk and keeping the door closed, and we’ll be doing our own creative trick-or-treating inside the house: Hubby and I will have a different costume on for each room of the house and the kids will go door to door. It’ll be memorable, that’s for sure! The pandemic has not stopped me from decorating the house, though, because we can’t let the neighbourhood down. Our house is just as haunted as last year (see the pics here), and I’ve even done a little Nightmare Before Christmas décor in the kitchen, too…

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Christmas Candy House Tour

Christmas Candy House Tour…It’s Christmas Eve!  We have a new house and I decided to decorate our exterior as a Christmas Candy Gingerbread House. We are the only ones in our neighborhood with a theme like this, it really looks fantastic!  It’s especially satisfying hearing kids outside squealing “it’s real candy!”

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Gingerbread Cookies with Pepper

Gingerbread Cookies with Pepper…No Christmas Cookie Exchange is complete without a spicy gingerbread cookie piped with white royal icing. There’s just something about crunching into these cookies and tasting the deep molasses flavours that epitomizes the holiday for me. While you’re baking and decorating have a mug of mulled wine (or virgin eggnog for us breastfeeding moms!) with Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” on the radio and your home will truly be a winter wonderland.

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Gingerbread Bars Recipe

Gingerbread Bars Recipe…Christmas is coming and that means it’s baking season. Every year without fail I make the same three favourite recipes: gingerbread bars, gingerbread cookies, and rum balls (stay tuned for links!). My husband isn’t a sweets guy, but even he can’t resist these delicious Christmas desserts…