I am going to be taking a little time off for the holidays starting today and I will be back at work on December 28th. It’s time to bake, wrap my presents & spend time with family. Not to mention, be out from in front of the computer for a few days!  Peace & happy season to you all!

Artwork from Mandy Gerth….LUV!

I love how my wrapped presents turned out. I used standard recycled brown paper wrap that I bought at the  5 & 10 store. I also cut out snowflakes from some pretty blue paper from Jessica Pilar and mod-podged them to the packages after wrapping them. I think they are rustically elegant, if I do say so myself.  Did you do anything special with your packages this year?

I made a lot of my gifts this year, including these little mason jars filled with all different types of teas.Simple, but I hope thoughtful for all our tea drinking giftees.

Don’t these look yummy? They are vanilla & sea salt caramels dipped in dark chocolate. I made them for all the holiday parties we are attending. The recipe is from this month’s Food and Wine magazine.  Recipe here.

Making some more diy holiday decorations for Handmade Holidays from stuff I alrady had around the house, I came up with this Snowflake Mobile.

I broke some twigs into about 4 inch lengths and hot glued them together to create a snowflake shape. I then wound some pretty blue yarn around them and then some silver embroidery floss on top of that for a little sparkle. Used more yarn to hang them from a longer stick as well as to hang the mobile on the wall.

Some fun holiday images from the Indie Fixx Flickr Holiday Decor Group. Join us and share your winter holiday decor!

‘December’ from Erleperle

‘Winter heart shaped snowlake curtain’ from Škrabalica

‘Terrarium Ornaments’ from Tess Marie

From artfulblogger

‘3d Magazine Ornament’ from How About Orange