Tag: gifts

  • 🎄 Christmas Eve: A Gentle Rhythm After a Full Day

    🎄 Christmas Eve: A Gentle Rhythm After a Full Day

    Christmas Eve doesn’t have to be busy or overstimulating. Here’s the gentle rhythm our family uses after a full day — with cozy traditions, easy prep, and small grounding moments that help everyone settle into the night. Includes a free printable Christmas Eve planner.

  • 🌿 Homemade Spice Blends for Gifting

    🌿 Homemade Spice Blends for Gifting

    Homemade spice blends are one of the simplest, most useful gifts to make during the holidays. They’re affordable, easy to batch, and add real flavor to everyday cooking. This guide shares my favorite blends — from citrusy salts to cozy herb mixes — plus ideas for packaging, gifting, and using them in your own kitchen.

  • 🎄 How We Keep Christmas Simple (and Still Magical)

    🎄 How We Keep Christmas Simple (and Still Magical)

    This year we’re keeping Christmas simple with a rhythm that helps us buy with intention — not overwhelm. Our family uses the five-gift framework (Want, Need, Wear, Read, Do) plus a few playful traditions that keep the magic alive. Here’s how we make the holidays meaningful, cozy, and joyful without getting lost in the excess.

  • 🍯 The Caramel Collection

    🍯 The Caramel Collection

    Smooth, buttery, and kissed with sea salt, this small-batch caramel sauce is made the old-fashioned way — no water, no thermometer, just patience and rhythm. What started as a Valentine’s experiment turned into a family favorite we make every fall. Drizzle it on ice cream, swirl it into coffee, or gift it in jars for…

  • 🍫 Fudgey Chocolate Caramel Sauce

    🍫 Fudgey Chocolate Caramel Sauce

    Thick, glossy, and rich with Dutch-process cocoa — this homemade chocolate caramel sauce is pure indulgence. Made with raw sugar and finished with a hint of black lava salt, it’s the kind of sauce that clings to a spoon and transforms simple desserts into something special.