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This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! I posted this game a few years ago and then I noticed that a lot of people were still finding it on line! Thought I'd repost it because it really is a fun game for a large family gathering, plus if you print it up nicely, it could make a quick and inexpensive gift!  Around our house during the holidays, playing games is big! Since we have such a big family, it is a lot of fun to have games that can include everyone who wants to play. I've written a couple of other posts suggesting party games and board games that include a lot of players. Well, I got to thinking that one classic game that can include everyone is Charades. If your young ones enjoy watching Frozen II, they will recognize Charades from the beginning of that movie. I thought wouldn't it be great to have a Christmas version of Charades all ready to go? So, I sat down with Lindsey and a few of my grandkids and we brain stormed ideas that would be great to include in a game of Christmas Charades. Let me tell you, we did pretty good! This game includes 83 items to act out in 6 different categories!  I sent the list to Alicia, and she designed the rules and tips sheets and the cards. Then, I printed them all off on some cute coordinating Christmas card stock. (You can also pick up a pad of Christmas card stock at Hobby Lobby for a good price.)
All you have to do is click the button to get the PDF file, print them off and cut them apart with a paper cutter. Now, you are ready to play! You're welcome! Merry Christmas!  So, go ahead, click the button! (Be sure you have plenty of red ink. Mine came out a little orange.) You could also send them to Staples or Office Max to get them printed if you want. You can always use white card stock instead of the Christmas print, but I love the Christmas print. I have to confess that I accidentally printed the rules in landscape at first. I had to reprint that part. But, it turned out to be a lucky thing because I cut out the title of the game and taped it with wide clear tape onto a manila envelope to label the game and store it to use again and again. You could always just print the first page twice, or you could laminate the rules onto the front and back of the envelope. If you make it look fancy enough, this could even be an inexpensive gift to a friend or neighbor with a large family. (By inexpensive, I mean practically free, except for the paper and ink!)  We even included some blank cards so that you can add some of your own ideas to act out! I already thought of one we forgot, "Deck the Halls." Hmm, how would you act out "Deck" or "Halls" in charades? Could be a tricky one! I can hardly wait to have a family get together and play this version of Charades! I think it will be a ton of fun! I hope that you will enjoy playing Christmas Charades with your family as well. Let me know if you think of good things to add that we left out!
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This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase after clicking them, we will be compensated, but there is no additional cost to you. All opinions expressed are our own. Thank you for your support.  Making your own extracts is an easy process. Maddy and I got together and made some back in September so that we could give it away this year for Christmas. Unfortunately, that is the one problem with this project, the extracts need to steep for awhile before using them. The other option is to make them and add the vanilla beans or almonds to the jars and on the tag, let the receiver know that they need to wait a few months to use them. Whatever you decide to do, let me show you a few things that we found out as we prepared to make these extracts. If you don't want to make it this year, you can file this post away until next year to make as gifts, or just make it now for yourself! Most people have heard of making your own Vanilla Extract in Vodka, but have you heard of using glycerin? There are pros and cons to using both. Have you heard of how to make Almond Extract? You may be surprised at that process! Keep reading and I will tell you all about our process and experience making our own extracts! This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase after clicking them, we will be compensated, but there is no additional cost to you. All opinions expressed are our own. Thank you for your support.  It is no secret that men are so difficult to buy gifts for! Am I wrong? They only like expensive things, I feel like they are polite about handmade things but disappointed on the inside, except for maybe the beautiful quilt or blanket made by grandma, and they never really tell you what they want. Clothes don't excite them that much and so many men's gifts seem like cliches. Most gift guides suggest alcohol, but the men in my life don't drink it. What is a woman to do? Well, this year I was inspired! I saw an idea for giving crazy soda's in Christmas stockings, then I saw that some places sold soda samplers for largish amounts of money. World Market sells one for $17 and that is the lowest, but the soda selections seemed rather ordinary to me. Other sites offer samplers at around $30 to $50! I thought, I think that I can put together samplers that fit the tastes and personalities of the men that I am buying for and do it at a lower price point! Guess what! I did it!
This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase after clicking them, we will be compensated, but there is no additional cost to you. All opinions expressed are our own. Thank you for your support.  I am so excited to share this recipe with you for Gingerbread Fudge today! I made it last year, very close to Christmas, so I figured I would save it for this year, because who makes fudge all year long? Not me! But, every so often I would think about fudge or someone would mention fudge and my mind would go back to this awesome Gingerbread Fudge that I have been saving to share with you this year in time for Christmas! Do you have any of those unusual people in your life who don't like chocolate? Or, maybe they only like white chocolate, (which isn't really chocolate) ? I do and let me tell you, this fudge hit the spot for them! The great thing about Gingerbread Fudge is the warm spices that taste like Christmas, the creaminess of the white chocolate mixed with the sweetened condensed milk. Those ingredients make this fudge very rich! Then, I added sprinkles to the body of the fudge to give it a festive flair. This recipe makes a 9 x 13 inch pan full of fudge, so there is plenty to feed a party or to share with friends. Whether they like chocolate or not, they will love this fudge!  The white chocolate on top makes it look like it is covered in snow! Gingerbread Fudge is so easy to make compared to many fudge recipes you will find, so I'm sure that once you give it a try it will make repeat appearances on your Christmas treat trays! You'd better put extra on there because it will go fast!  Looking for more fudge recipes? We've got you covered!
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