Christmas Countdown Day 30: Try A Tearfile!
Holiday catalogs are not just for gift shopping. They're a free and fabulous resource for holiday decorating, home-made gift suggestions, and even (thank you, Williams Sonoma!) holiday recipes.
Problem is, how do you keep all that good information without being led astray or drowning in paper? Answer: a set of tearfiles.
to do today ...try a tearfile!
Grab a short stack of file folders, or invest in an accordion file--or add tearfile page protectors to the Christmas notebook.
Label folders or tab protectors according to your interests. Here are some suggestions, from my own well-seasoned tearfiles:
- Gift Ideas
- Decor Ideas
- Floral
- Tabletop
- Santa Ideas
- Decor Trends
- Recipes
To feed your tearfiles . . . just tear!
Spot a nifty Santa that you'd like to reproduce (for a tiny fraction of the $350 price tag)? Tear out the entire page and toss it into Santa Ideas.
See the perfect dried floral swag for the dining nook entryway, but don't have the $75 plus postage and handling? Tear the photo and use it as a guide to purchase materials at the craft store.
Find a perfect gift for that Rocket Scientist of a nephew--but you've already purchased his Christmas gift this year? Rip! Into Gift Ideas it goes, where it will jog next year's memory.
Drooling over the pumpkin-shaped pumpkin muffins from the upscale cookware catalog? Tear it out and tuck it into Recipes. The muffins will taste just as good in your plain old muffin tin, and you've bypassed the temptation to spend $29.95 (plus tax, postage and handling).
After you've torn the catalog? Dare to toss it! You've skimmed the cream into tearfiles . . . so toss the rest into the recycling bin.
today's recipe ...
The best-tasting rolled cookie for cutting and frosting, this lemon-flavored sugar cookie is sturdy enough for child decorators.
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