holiday ideas

16 Nov

Beautiful Holiday Cakes & Cupcakes

categories: christmas, food and drinks, holiday ideas, thanksgiving

On the lookout for some pretty new holiday dessert ideas? Check out the lovely – and mouth-watering! – ideas in BHG’s Irresistable Holiday Cakes and Cupcakes gallery.
The gallery features 21 different recipes and also includes ideas that would work well for Thanksgiving, like this gorgeous Chocolate Harvest Cake and elegant Pistachio Cake with White Chocolate [...]

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Read more → Posted on November 16th, 2009 at 9:20am

10 Nov

Fun Finds: Oliver & Sammy at cb2

categories: dinnerware, drinkware, holiday ideas

If you loved the fun Oliver plates from cb2 (see earlier post here), then you’ll probably also love these coordinating Oliver Martini Glasses. This style is so unique: mixed media hand sketch with a color photo of a maraschino cherry that’s actually ON the glass (looks like there’s a real cherry in there!). {$4.95 each}
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Read more → Posted on November 10th, 2009 at 3:57pm

10 Nov

SURPRISE GIVEAWAY: Cardstore.com

categories: holiday ideas, invitations, paper love, reader giveaways

It’s that time of year again, so today’s Surprise Giveaway feels especially relevant… Just in time for the season, CardStore.com is offering up $100 Shopping Sprees towards their HUGE selection of personalized Holiday Cards and Thank You Cards to TWO hwtm readers! This should help out significantly with spreading the holiday cheer!

In the Holiday Cards [...]

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Read more → Posted on November 10th, 2009 at 10:29am

9 Nov

Winter Wonderland Dessert Buffet

categories: DIY, food presentation, holiday ideas, wedding

Maddy from Inspired Bride and Amanda from Bake It Pretty recently put together this absolutely stunning “Winter Wonderland” themed dessert buffet… seriously, how gorgeous is this?!
Better yet, they’ve broken the buffet down into a series of detailed DIY posts for each individual element – from the winter wonderland cupcakes (pictured below) to the dessert treat [...]

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Read more → Posted on November 9th, 2009 at 8:24am

18 Dec

“Inspire Me” Holiday Entertaining Contest Finalists – VOTE for Your Favorite!

categories: christmas, holiday ideas, new year's eve

First things first – I’d like to sincerely thank every single person that entered the Inspire Me! Holiday Entertaining Contest or passed the word on to friends and family – your efforts are truly appreciated!
Narrowing the entries down proved to be extremely difficult, so thank goodness for the talented & creative minds that graciously [...]

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Read more → Posted on December 18th, 2008 at 2:26am

17 Dec

Inspire Me! Contest – Voting Update

categories: get inspired, holiday ideas

So… we had a flood of last-minute submissions for the holiday contest yesterday – hooray! The only problem? You people are way too talented and I’m pulling my hair out trying to narrow this down to 10 finalists… it honestly feels like the impossible task!
There are 463 photo entries total – and if you haven’t [...]

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Read more → Posted on December 17th, 2008 at 12:02pm