Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! 

Hello lovelies! The day is finally here! May this day be filled with happiness and love, surrounded by your loved ones. Enjoy a cup of hot coco by the fire-place (In my case, a fire-place will be a bit overwhelming, South Florida weather☺) while the kids are opening gifts, witnessing that surprise expression on their faces is priceless. They are the reason we wrestle at Toys r Us for that perfect gift! But Christmas is not all about gifts, food, or snow fights, it is about love, family time, and compassion. Caring for one an other is proactive, not only for the holidays but always☺Enjoy a wonderful day with your family and love one and other!  

♥♥Merry Christmas lovelies♥♥

Christmas Menu

Hello lovelies!

How are your holidays preparation coming along? I had been decorating a bit more and preparing a Christmas Menu. As all of you may know, I adore cooking that is why I want to share with you some of my favorite Christmas recipes! I love to cook but sometimes I don't have the time to visit my kitchen and make a succulent dinner, that is why I can't wait for Christmas! It gives me an opportunity to search for a good recipe and make it for my family. Before the big dinner, I like to offer soft drinks and h'orderves accompany by an interesting and fun conversation.
My favorite drink for the holidays is eggnog...of course. This Eggnog-Lime Lassi recipe is one of my favorites, it takes only 5 minutes to make, you can find the full recipe here.

Look no further than Martha Stewart for incredible recipes! She is my to-go-person in every holiday; she will provide you with easy to make recipes like this Baked Camembert with Bacon, Rosemary and Pine Nuts. This will be perfect as an appetizer accompany by a cup eggnog or white wine.  

For Christmas, I always prepare a roast turkey with gravy, mash potatoes and greens, but this year I want to make a different dinner. I am changing my traditional Christmas turkey for a Roast Pork with Fennel, Chiles and Olives.  Prepare accordingly, this recipes will take you an hour to make, but it is worth it! How about serving this Roast Pork with red whine? I'm in! 

What about desert? A dinner is not complete without desert! Specially a Christmas dinner. Sometimes it is very hard to please everyone in their desert "needs", so I decided to choose a bit of everything with this Basic Bark. 

I am strongly thinking about creating this menu for Christmas dinner, it is not hard to make and it will not take to long (and my family will be delighted!) What are you all planing for Christmas dinner? Any tips for me?

xoxo

Pat. 

DIY Holiday Decorations...

Hello lovelies:

What a week I had, filled with projects, work and more work! But I love it, the idea of creating new things and share it with all of you it's what keeps me going. I was organizing all my online reading, BOY! I had a mess on my Feedly account, but I organized it all and its perfect. Way easier for me, now I go online and all my favorite blogs, magazines and websites are organized and just a click away. Well...it is time for some DIY decoration ideas! Aren't these brilliant?! I choose decorations that will adorned your house inside and out. Hide those stocking stuffers with this wool Woodland Stockings, cute right?  To make it even cuter, you can add little bears or deers. Continuing with texture adornments, how about adorning your three with needle-felted woodland ornaments! I am just in-love with the woodland idea for this holiday ☺ Also, make you your front door scream holidays with an outdoor lighting perfectly decorated with holiday spirit. Like I said! I love the idea of a woodland holiday, what about Woodland candle-holders?  Love it! But don't forget about you dinner table, decorate it with crocheted snowflake napkins! Don't you want to create all of them?! I know I do☺

Find all the direct links for each project below!  

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I hope you enjoyed this DIY decorations created by the wonderful Martha Stewart . She is truly a great source of inspiration when it comes to crafting, decorating and cooking! Are you all ready for the holidays? ! I know I am ☺


xoxo,

Pat

Surprise! Happy Holidays Tags and Cards For You

Hello fabric lovers!!

How is your week going? I was so busy with errands and work, but I still manage to blog a little bit this week, posting my Christmas Gift ideas -that I hope it helped you- and giving you an idea of what's to come next week...DIY decorations anyone? Today is a very special day for me because it is my mom's birthday, and I cannot express with words how happy I am to have her by my side. The love of a mother is irreplaceable and I feel extremely happy to have her with me. Today I will be celebrating her birthday, maternal love and just love in general!

I hope your holidays preparations are going smoothly and to help you all a little bit, I had created lovely gift tags and Happy Holidays cards for all of you to enjoy. Print and personalize it!

Links for each downloadable item are provided below ☺

- Option I (Mixed Tag)

- Option II (Disty Radiance)

- Option III (Passionate Spirit Salmon)

- Option IV (Sauvage Sky Larkspur)

- Option V  (Stitched Anthomania) 

- Option VI (Festival Sparkles)

- Option VII (Twirls in the Air)

- Option VIII (Holiday Card)

- Option IX (Holiday Card 2)

Happy holidays everyone, and stay tuned because there is more to come on the blog☺

xoxo, 

Pat

Christmas Gift Ideas Part II

Hello Cuties ♥

How are you all? I had been running around getting some presents this last couple of days and let me tell you, malls are getting crowder and streets are becoming a bit more dangerous to drive...oh well, it's that time of the year. Just be careful out there, specially all of you that have snow on the streets. How are you all doing with your Christmas shopping list? Not done yet? Well my Christmas gift ideas Part II is here ladies! Christmas is just a couple of days away, but you still have some time to make either one of these gift ideas. Gift a stunning front door flower basket, unique brownies mix jar, marbleized pencils or make that home decor lover happy with a rapture cushion or spiral rung. These stocking stuffers are super witty and to die for.
Links for each idea are provided below ☺

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How is your Christmas planning going? Are you all ready for the 25th?

xoxo,


Pat

It's the most wonderful time...

Hello lovelies,

How are you all? Are you getting ready for Christmas? I am so into the Christmas spirit this year! Even though I was a bit busy with new projects for Etno, those Flying geese are coming up beautiful by the way I can't wait to show you the final result. I spent this weekend organizing and decorating for the holidays, enjoying Miami's cool weekend weather, perfect for a cup of hot coco. I had been sharing some amazing DIY gift ideas with you all that I really hope will help you this Christmas.
There are more things to come that I will be sharing this month, like recipes from my favorite chefs, hence the eggnog image....recipe very soon ☺

I wish there could be more hours in the day so I can complete some of the incredible projects that I had been seeing online! These last couple of days, I had been browsing the internet for Christmas ideas, and you will not believe the unique DIY decorations that I encountered!! They are just lovely, like this brilliant and easy to make Christmas Cookie-Cutter Ornaments by wonderful Martha Stewart.

But for now, I want to leave you with a playlist that I created for you, filled with some of my favorite Christmas songs. I just adore Christmas songs, don't you? As soon as Thanksgiving is over, it is time for Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Michael Buble to sing those marvelous holiday tunes! To enjoy this playlist, you need to have Spotify, if not, you can easily downloaded here☺

 

How are you preparing for the holidays? I would love to know your ideas ☺

Enjoy and stay tuned for more!

xoxo,

Pat

Christmas Gift Ideas Part I

Hey there lovelies!

Christmas is just around the corner! Can you believe it? I am super excited! I had been gathering ideas for presents because, you know, having the perfect gift for that special someone is really important. Therefore.....drum roll.....I gathered my first 6 Christmas gift ideas! Each week, I will be sharing 6 ideas giving you all a total of 12! The majority being DIY projects. I always find it very important and meaningful to create something lovely for someone that we care about, so gift a pampering kind-of-present with a Coconut-Lime and Sugar scrub, snuggle up with stunning sweater pillows and make that jet-setter happy with a roll-up traveling jewelry case, or cute laundry bags. All of these ideas are easy to make DIY projects, however.... Merchant & Mill's wonderful collection of goodies is something to look at! It's a quilters and sewers dream! And what about your quilter friend? They will be super happy with a yard of Festival Sparkle fabric, they will just love it!  

Stay tuned lovelies because there is much more to come in this fun month of December.  I prepared a couple of things that you will just adore!  

Links for each gift idea are provided below ☺

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How are you preparing for the holidays? Any tricks or ideas? I would love to know ☺

xoxo,

Pat