Making Spice-Scented Christmas Ornaments

We have, for a long time, had a small Christmas ornament that I’ve really liked. It looks like a gingerbread cookie, but it smells of cinnamon, perfuming our living room at Christmas time, and scenting the ornament box the rest of the year. Recently, I learned that ornaments of this kind are inexpensive and dead-simple to make! Before the Christmas season closes, I’d like to share the “recipe” for making simple, rustic, aromatic, and surprisingly long-lasting homemade Christmas ornaments.

homemade Christmas cookie ornaments

Spicy “gingerbread cookie” ornaments, cut out and ready to dry (Photo: Michelle Zeiger).

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A Well-Traveled Christmas Card Part 2

As luck would have it, we got a second chance on that misdirected Christmas card back in 2008 after all.

We returned to town on December 30th that year and checked our mail. Only after we had hiked home and started opening our Christmas cards did I see that the stack included the very same card we’d sent away on December 13th! Michelle pointed out that I had neglected to mark out the Post Office bar codes at the bottom of the envelope. We had checked the mail at least once between the 13th and the 30th, so we know the card left town, then “boomeranged” back to our mailbox!

Aly poses with misdirected Christmas card

Aly poses with the misdirected Christmas card in front of the homestead's bight (Photo: Mark Zeiger).

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