• Living

    All Wrapped Up! Holiday Gift Wrapping Made Easy!

    It’s a wrap!  All of my Christmas presents are finally wrapped!  If you’re anything like me, you really hate wrapping presents too!  I usually let all the presents pile up in bags or boxes in the basement and keep putting the wrapping off until Christmas Eve and I can’t procrastinate any longer!  I’m surprised I did it 5 days early this year! Even though I hate wrapping presents, I really do love how pretty they look when they’re all wrapped up, especially at Christmastime under the tree.  I’m a sucker for pretty paper, ribbons and bows.  So this year I decided to get a bit more creative and go on…

  • Food

    Best Christmas Cookies – Ever!!

    Hi everyone!  We had such a busy weekend with quite a few Christmas parties – I must say we’re all a bit exhausted! But we still found time to keep up with one of our Christmas traditions, our annual family holiday baking! I love to bake and I’ve been doing it since I was a little girl.  Growing up in a greek family, from an early age I was in the kitchen, flour all over me, baking traditional greek pastries and desserts with my mom and grandmother.  Then when I was 12 I was determined to make shortbread cookies and sugar cookies, and we’ve been doing it together ever since. …