Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
Happy New Year to all and welcome to 2023, may it treat us well. This was the final prompt for 2022. Inspiration: Dicken’s A Christmas Carol and other Victorian error Christmas ghost stories. Prompt: Write a ghost story with a moral. The response to this were great in our writing group. The writer that won
Time for some yuletide tales! For this prompt we selected a creature from a winter holiday belief system from around the world with a very brief description. I selected the Mari Lwyd. This is a bit of Welsh mythos-tradition, the only description I was given was a horse skull draped in a cloth that requests
We often think of Halloween as the time to tell ghost stories but it is not the only holiday worthy of them. Christmas has a number of scary stories and beasts attributed to it. Tales that have been pasted through the generations, morphed and adapted from older winter holiday traditions. These stories share similar themes:
I absolutely love gingerbread and ginger cookies. They are full of flavor and with a hint of kick from the ginger and are just Christmas in food form. I’ve made a couple of different ginger based deserts over the years but wasn’t happy with the cookies – until now. I found this recipe on the
We love seeing the lights in downtown Grapevine on Main Street. This year did require some safety measures but we still had a great time! Do you enjoy looking at Christmas lights? Have you seen any good ones this year? Let me know in the comments! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! INSTAGRAM│FACEBOOK│TWITTER│YOUTUBE │KO FI
While I test out some new recipes for the holiday season I though I would share an old favorite: Chocolate Chip Pistachio Cookies with peppermint garnish. Or if the red of the peppermint is not your color, go with the original green: Chocolate Chip Pistachio Cookies with Pistachio garnish. Either way these cookies are a
Thought I’d get into the holiday spirit with today’s post. In our house we love hot chocolate as soon as it is cool enough outside to call for it and I almost always make whipped cream to go on top but a good cup of hot cocoa needs that extra topping to feel complete. Our
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from my family to yours. I hope that this time of the year is filled with fun and family and good food. Know that Bear was not amused by the antlers and promptly removed them himself after this photo but it still makes me giggle to look at because he
I managed to get a few cute pictures of Bear and Keltin among the chaos that is Main Street Grapevine at Christmas time and a couple funny stories! There was a rust bucket of a truck stopped at a long red playing loud music on the worst bass set up I have ever heard and
While visiting my sister this very merry holiday season, we decided to visit a Christmas Pop-Up Bar. If you don’t know, a pop-up bar is a permanent locations that changes themes every so often. This is the first one that I had ever been too and it was a good time. They had themed drinks,
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