Latest Blog Posts for Making This Home

• Wrapping Up The Green Christmas Challenge
  on Dec 31, 2008 in Holiday Stuff Most Popular Articles Thinking Green blueprint card christmas christmas guide community donate fabric flowers gift gift bag gift guide give green green christmas handmade homemade How-To inspiration local note presen
   Here it is.  The end of another year.  After tossing challenges at you like crazy, I’m here to announce that The Greener Christmas Guide is coming to a close.  It’s getting packed away with all of the garland and pretty lights (though I’d...
• Donate Old Holiday Cards
  on Dec 30, 2008 in Holiday Stuff Thinking Green card children christmas gift green hospital recycle reuse st. jude's
    This post is a part of A Greener Christmas Guide, a series of posts dedicated to celebrating the holidays with a lighter impact on the earth. For more of this series, please visit A Greener Christmas Guide. As we prepare to pack up our ornaments...
• A Traditional Czech Christmas
  on Dec 29, 2008 in European Holiday Stuff Yummy Recipes carp christmas christmas eve communism czech dinner europe gifts prague
  Want a glimpse into a European Christmas on American soil?  My mother-in-law hosted a fabulous Christmas and put out all the stops to bring us a true Czech holiday.  This was my first Christmas away from my family and away from the American customs...
• Sending Paperless Thank You Notes
  on Dec 26, 2008 in Holiday Stuff Thinking Green apple carbon footprint card christmas email gift green letter note paperless photo photobooth photograph recycling sharing thank you
  This post is a part of A Greener Christmas Guide, a series of posts dedicated to celebrating the holidays with a lighter impact on the earth. For more of this series, please visit A Greener Christmas Guide. At some point in the coming week, each of...
• Christmas Markets in Berlin Germany Part 2
  on Dec 23, 2008 in Berlin Germany Related Holiday Stuff christmas christmas europe christmas market decorations photography talent vica
  Christmas around the world is beautiful.  There’s no question about it.  But after seeing some before shots of the Christmas markets in Berlin, I didn’t know about you, but I was dying to see some pictures of Christmas in Germany. My
• Christmas Markets in Berlin Germany Part 1
  on Dec 22, 2008 in Berlin Germany Related Holiday Stuff christmas christmas market festival german market shopping tradition
  When we left Germany, crews were proudly working throughout the city to get ready for the Christmas markets.  I have often heard people say that Christmas time is the best season to visit Germany.  There is spiced wine, happy children, and handmade...
• Christmas Back in the Day
  on Dec 19, 2008 in America Funny Stuff Holiday Stuff christmas christmas tree first apartment home sister tradition tree
  Want a peek into the old days?  Like so far back that Martin and I actually called ourselves newlyweds? We lived in this horrible married student complex in a tiny one-bedroom apartment.  Yes - smaller than our home in Berlin!  We had to turn off...
• Switch to Cloth Bags
  on Dec 18, 2008 in Germany Related Holiday Stuff Thinking Green bag craft gift gift bag grocery store handmade plastic purse recycle reduce sewing
  This post is a part of A Greener Christmas Guide, a series of posts dedicated to celebrating the holidays with a lighter impact on the earth. For more of this series, please visit A Greener Christmas Guide. German grocery stores don’t provide free...
• Subzero Temperatures and Ice Cream
  on Dec 17, 2008 in America Appliances Yummy Recipes homemade ice cream kitchen aid mixer mixer snow winter
  The temperature around here hasn’t gone above zero degrees for days.  DAYS, People!  I’m freezing, and it makes just about any outdoor activity (including a walk to the mailbox) downright impossible.  Then Martin got an idea: When life giv.
• 10 Instructions for Life at Christmas
  on Dec 16, 2008 in Brainstorming Holiday Stuff attitude christmas gift giving instructions top 10
  In making our homes, it’s easy to get caught up in stuff.  I know that I do.  But it’s never the stuff that truly makes our homes what they are.  It’s the people and the attitudes.  So the other day I began cultivating a list of instruction...

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