Making cranberry sauce (with lime and ginger, yum!) a few days ahead.
Decorating the front door with gleaned greenery.
A new holiday table setting, with a red tablecloth and white pompom fringe.
A reindeer we got a few years ago from our favorite tree lot. I don't usually succumb, but this one has such a wonderful expression.
Gingerbread hobbit hole, with acknowledgements to the anonymous baker who made the original I got most of the ideas from, and whose photo has been copied and recopied on Pinterest without acknowledgement.
Two week's worth of to-do lists — twelve people to Christmas dinner!
"Souche" de Noël — yes, Christmas Stump Cake! Another idea pinched — did I mention twelve people to Christmas dinner?! — this one from an article in "Sunset" magazine's December issue, featuring Ashley Muir Bruhn of "Hither and Thither" and her version of the classic Christmas cake. The faux-meringue mushrooms are a delight, too — marshmallows cut in half on the diagonal, with a rolled-cookie "stem", dusted with cocoa powder, easy-peasy. My cake is a favorite butter cake, which is even better a day or two after baking — did I mention twelve people to Christmas dinner?!
And then some lovely peace and quiet, sitting beside the Christmas tree.
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