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Wrapping Your Christmas Gifts!

I love the idea of the entire Christmas season, there is so much joy in the air. I love the smell of all of the freshly baked cookies, the sound of the Christmas music in the background and the beautifully wrapped gifts under the tree. Gifts are a great way to show someone just how much you care about them. What I love about wrapping a gift is the excitement on the persons face who you give it to. When a gift is wrapped nicely it almost makes the gift a little bit more than what is inside. I can’t tell you how many times people have complimented me about the wrapping on my gifts I give. Not only that, now people have been asking me to wrap their gifts for them.

Here is a video showing you just how I wrap a a Basic Box.  

 

I love adding thing to the top of my gifts. It not only adds a pop of color but to make the gift look finish and complete.

I love adding red accents to my gifts

This year I used different kinds of peppermints, bows, flowers and ornaments.

Dressing up your gifts with red Accents.

Here are step by step instructions on how to wrap your basic box.

Wrapping up Shaklee's Nutrition Therapy from Enfuselle1 Messure and Cut Wrapping Paper 2 Fold Paper over you gift 3 Fold the edge of the paper over for a perfectly smooth line.4 secure with a piece of tape.5 Push the Paper from the top of your gift down towards the bottom on the gift.6 Crease the corners of the paper on both ends making them into triangles.  7 Fold the other side in creating a triangle. 8 Fold the Bottom triangle up and secure with tape. 9 Continue the last 3 steps to the other side! Add your Accent color in ribbons a flower and a candy cane and you are done

My siblings love helping when it comes time to wrap.

The kids love helping me wrap Tying Ribbin on my  gift.

I just love the end result.

Simple but elegant wrapping

How do you wrap your gifts for Christmas?

Do you have a favorite Christmas color this year?

I hope you are all done shopping and ready to wrap your gifts. I hope this helps!

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Parties I am at this week:

Some Day Crafts

The Thrifty Home

Seven Thirty Three

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Organizing Your Scarfs on Clothes Hangers!

With the seasons changing and the whether getting colder it is time to bust out the scarfs. Over the past few winters I have built up quite the little collection of scarfs. I use to keep them in a bin in my room until I got sick of them always being wrinkled. I don’t even remember where I got this idea from but I am so glad that I found it. Now that I have started hanging my scarfs up on hangers I will not be going back to putting them in a drawer or a bin ever again.

Here is a short video showing you just how I organize my scarfs.

 

 

This is a great way to hang your scarfsI just love this idea about hanging your scarfs on a hanger This is a great way to save space and keep your scarfs organized! This is an amazing way yo keep scarfs organized and keep your closet cleanWhat I clever idea, I never would have thought to hang my scarf’s on a hanger like this

 

I love keeping my scarfs color coordinated and where I can see them. I not only feel like they stay more organized but I also wear them more than I use to because I can actually see what I have.

I love the idea of wearing scarfs. Please don’t forgot to subscribe to my blog to get my up come posts on how to tie your scarfs and how to pair them with your outfits.

How do you keep your scarfs organized?

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Cranberry Muffins–A Must Try!

If there is one thing that you just couldn’t go without during the Christmas season, what would it be? Ok, let me narrow that down a bit; If there is on type of treat that you just could not go without, what would it be? I know what mine would be. I wait all year for cranberries to be in season and then I buy a bunch and freeze them for the rest of the year. Who am I kidding? They never make it more than a few weeks in my house. This is a recipe that we have been using for years. It is simple but delicious!

 

The Perfect Chistmas Cranberry Muffin

Here is a short video showing you just how I made these delicious cranberry muffins.

An Easy and Festive Cranberry Muffin

You will need:
1 ¾ Cups All-Purpose Flour
½ Cup Sugar
2 ½ Teaspoons Baking Powder
¾ Teaspoon Salt
1 Beaten Egg
¾ Cup Milk
⅓ Cup Cooking Oil
1 Cup Coarsely Chopped Cranberries

Ingredients for amazing Cranberry muffins.

I cut the cranberries into fourths and they turn our perfect. 

Cut cranberries into 4ths for the best muffins ever!

In a large mixing bowl stir together the dry ingredients. Make a well in the center. Combine egg, milk and oil. Add egg mixture all at once to the flour mixture. Stir just until moistened; batter should be lumpy. Fold in cranberries.

Folding in cranberries to your basic muffin batter

Grease Muffin cups or line with paper baking cups: fill 2/3 full. Bake in a 400 degree oven for 20 minutes or until golden. Remove from pans; serve warm. Makes around 12 muffins.

Fill your muffin paper cut two thirds of the way with you cranberry muffin batter

DIY Basic Cranberry Muffins, Perfect for ChristmasEasy and Basic Cranberry Muffins Home Made Cranberry Muffins Making a Cranberry Muffin from Scratch

It is also a great gift to give a loved one and let them know that you are thinking about them.

DIY Christas Gifts at BeautyBlondie.com

 

This is such a great thing to share at Christmas parties that I just can’t keep it all to myself. I will be linking up at:

Todays Creative Blog

 

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Cleaning Your Nail Polish Bottle

When you are working with nail polish you need to be very careful so you don’t spill any polish on pretty much anything. I hope I am not telling you anything you haven’t herd already. Nail polish is the one thing that you don’t want to spill on anything because it is so hard to get out. Even Shaklee Get Clean products might have a hard time cleaning up nail polish and they can get out everything!

So what happens to you nail polish bottle when you get nail polish all over the top? The top gets stuck to the bottle and it is next to imposable to get open. Unless you use this technique that I am about to show you.

 

Cleaning Your Nail Polish Bottles at BeautyBlondie.com

Here is a short video showing you just how to open a bottle after it is suck shut as well as a way to keep it from getting stuck again.

You might want to also check out my post on painting you nails to look professional every time.

Perfectly Painted Professional Nails at BeautyBlondie.com

I am telling you that this works, try it and see! Let me know how it goes. Good luck and happy painting.

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