Planning a party with friends and family on New Year’s Eve? This year, make it easy by turning your buffet table into an informal appetizer table.
We’re a granola-eating family. When the tall jar in our pantry reads almost empty, it’s time to stir up and bake a new batch. It’s never a chore, because the fresh homemade taste of heart-healthy oats with nuts and dried fruit always satisfies.
It’s a new puppy! It’s a soft toy! It’s a draftbuster! Yes indeed, it’s all three, and the adorable soft puppy will love to come into your home to keep some of winter’s chilly drafts from breezing through doorway cracks and windows.
You can celebrate the season and create new traditions right at your closest park or in your neighborhood, too. If the fall air beckons your family to get outside for a bike ride or a weekend walk, go for it. Observe the changing images around you, including the colorful leaves drifting and swirling in the breeze.
Creativity is at your elbow, always available. I try to remember that. If you are a parent who, like many people, considers him- or herself "noncreative," just think of creativity as a water faucet.
Wrap up the last of summer's harvest with colorful ribbons of orange, green, yellow and red. Abundant zucchini, summer squash and carrots can be woven together with fettuccine pasta for a tasty supper your family will enjoy from preparation to the last bite.
Flowerpots are more than just containers for fragrant herbs, summer's begonias or fall's chrysanthemums.
The latest caper appeared at lunchtime when she said, "Come and get your watermelon sandwiches!"
"You can have your cake and blossoms too," was the greeting my friend Janet proclaimed when she arrived for coffee time on my deck.
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I’m thankful for Thanksgiving. It’s a time to gather with friends and relatives around a table, savor one another’s favorite dishes, anticipate pies with dollops of whipped cream and simply…
By Donna Erickson Signal Contributing Writer Combine a child's love of playing with dough and a fascination with spiders, and you'll have both a "hit" activity and a healthy treat…
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