Make chocolate coated stir sticks for your hot chocolate or coffee with this easy tutorial.

White hot chocolate mix is a delicious twist on regular cocoa mix.  This easy white hot chocolate recipe is sure to please the white chocolate fans in your house this winter.

Make rustic winter napkin rings for Thanksgiving or Christmas with artificial fur, toilet paper tubes, and faux birch wrapping paper.

Cookies with all the fabulous flavor of a homemade gingerbread house, but with the ease of a bar cookie.  Perfect for those holiday cookie trays!

Make rustic-chic placemats that look like birch bark inexpensively and easily using wrapping paper!

Make hot spiced apple cider for a crowd easily and quickly this Christmas and Thanksgiving season with this recipe and technique.

Wooden kitchen spoons decorated with wood-burnt designs make a fabulous and inexpensive homemade gift.

I've said this enough times that you probably think I'm a broken record, but I love creative gift wrapping!  And I love it even more when I come up with inexpensive (or even free) packaging ideas.

Make your own beautiful gift boxes out of colorful cardstock with this tutorial.

Tutorial for making these adorable Scandinavian tomte Christmas elf ornaments (or gift toppers!).  It's a great craft for kids and adults alike.