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Our mission: to help you get ready for the holiday season.
Whether you plan for the holidays year-round or begin Christmas planning at the last minute, we'll help you get organized for a stress-free Christmas holiday.

Turkey Day cometh ... will you be ready? If you're hosting the meal, it's time to plan. What will you serve--and what will you serve with? Who will sit where--and where will you place the dreaded children's table? Will you have time to make or buy a pretty centerpiece?
Menus, seating, serving and tabletop, it's time to put it all together now. (Or maybe it's not to late to scour the town for Thanksgiving dinner reservations ....):

Menu and Party Planners Available.

Jar Gift Recipes: Holiday Ideas for Gifts In A Jar

You'll find them on Christmas lists the world over: gifts in a jar. These frugal consumable gifts feature bath salts, cookie ingredients, holiday beverage mixes, baking mixes or bean soup fixings layered in a glass canning jar.
Topped with a colorful fabric circle and a free printable gift tag, they're a welcome holiday treat.
We've got all you need to know to make gifts in a jar. Get started with our instructions, tips and recipes. Don't forget to visit the Gifts in a Jar forms library to print gift tags for a finishing touch!
Journal Jar
Child's Journal Jar
Peaches and Cream Bath Salts
Candy Cane Bath Salts
Texas Cornbread Mix
Confetti Bean Soup Mix Recipe
Orange Dreamsicle Cookies ~New!
M&M Cookie Mix
White ChocolateMacadamia Nut Cookie Mix
Oatmeal Scotchies
Sand Art Brownies

Holiday Gifts and Crafts Index
Posted September 17th, 2007 by Cynthia Townley Ewer
· Gifts in a Jar (11) - Layered cookie mixes, bath salts and baking mix recipes.
· Printable Gifts (9) - Journal jars and easy gifts from your printer.
· "Poop" Gifts (6) - Get the straight "poop" on these easy to make gag gifts.
· Stocking Stuffers (5) - Snowman soup and easy-to-make stocking stuffer crafts.
· Sew Simple Gifts (4) - Puzzle mats, French memory boards and sew-easy gifts.
You've Been BOOed! (5) - Halloween BOO-ing or Phantom Ghost poem and signs.
· Magic Elf Tradition (1) - Will an Elf visit your home? Printables for Magic Elf craft.
· Melt and Pour Soap (6) - Simple soap gifts for holiday giving.
· Gingerbread Houses (6) - Gingerbread house recipes, templates and crafts.
· Decor Crafts (4) - Holiday decorations that are easy to make.

Welcome to the Houseworks Holiday Plan!
Posted July 19th, 2007 by Cynthia Townley Ewer

Christmas is coming, and you're dreaming of a clean and organized home, all decked out in holiday glory.

Then you open your eyes to reality. Looking around the house, it's hard to imagine how to cut the clutter, manage fall cleaning and prepare for Christmas all at once.

How will you bring the current state of domestic chaos into holiday readiness: clean, organized, prepared?

Try the Houseworks Holiday Plan and make your house work ... for the holidays!
Part book group, part organizing schedule, the Houseworks Holiday Plan is an 18-week holiday plan designed to help you clean and organize your home in time for the holiday season--and take care of seasonal preparations, too.

Beginning in early September, the plan breaks down decluttering, cleaning and Christmas organizing into small, weekly bites.

Each week, the plan assigns a cleaning-and-organizing focus based on the book Houseworks , along with a short list of holiday planning chores to chill out seasonal stress before it begins.
You'll learn to STOP clutter, clean and organize each room in your home. At the same time, you'll tackle a few holiday preparations each week. The goal: to bring house and home into readiness for the holiday season.

Houseworks Weekly FocusEach week, the Plan applies four Houseworks skill sets--declutter, organize, clean and plan--to a single room or area. Area by area, you'll cut clutter, organize, and deep-clean in good time to have a clean house for the holidays.

There's a seasonal logic to the Weekly Focus assignments. Early on, the Plan organizes personal spaces, to make it easier to plan the season, craft gifts and decor, and carry out wrapping and Christmas card chores.

As Thanksgiving Day appears on the horizon, food preparation and storage areas take center stage to speed menu planning, holiday meals and baking.

By December, the focus moves to public spaces and final cleaning, leaving the house clean, organized and ready for the celebration. After the holiday, the Plan's final week sees you into an organized New Year, debriefing, storing decorations, and getting a good start on the next year's celebration.

Holiday Prep AssignmentsAlong with an area-by-area Houseworks focus, each week includes a planning assignment for holiday prep: a list of do-it-now jobs designed to make short work of preparing for the holidays.

From gifts to decor, cooking to clothes, holiday prep assignments take the big chores and breaks them down into easy-to-manage steps. Doing a few holiday prep tasks each week, you'll be organized for a calm and stress-free Christmas season.

Free Printable Planner Forms

The secret to an organized holiday season? A Christmas notebook to track and record all the little things that make the celebration special. As the plan progresses, we'll add holiday planner forms, calendars, gift lists and menu planners to our notebook--and to make it easy, they're free for the printing in the Forms Library!
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