The Food Network’s Sandra Lee will be celebrating the holidays with a new special on HGTV. Sandra Lee star of Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee and the new hit series, Sandra’s Money Saving Meals, will cook up four new one-hour prime time specials this holiday season just for HGTV .
In each of the holiday specials, titled Sandra Lee Celebrates, Sandra will be working with deserving families to make their holidays memorable. She will help them plan their holidays from a sweet celebration for some special children, to a homecoming family reunion, see how Sandra helps the families make their holidays …read more

A few days ago, I told you about the Personalized Initially Your Hostess Gift Set which included cocktail napkins. Here is another hostess gift idea that would go great with the cocktail napkins or even given alone with a bottle of wine.
The wine glasses pictured here are the Personalized Initially Yours Wine Glass Set. Here’s a description:
Choose from 10 Monogram colors! A toast to your good taste and individual style! Make a perfectly impressive statement to party guests with crystal clear wine glasses, artfully personalized with your single, scrolled initial. Specify any initial and preview the monogram below. Sold as …read more

It’s always extra special when you give a gift that is personalized. A friend of mine just received a beautiful fleece blanket with her initials on it and she just loves it. It made her feel wonderful to know that someone took the time and thought of a gift idea for her way in advance. Giving a gift that is personalized shows the person you are giving it to, that you were thinking of them and not at the last minute.
The gift pictured here is the Personalized Initially Yours Hostess Gift Set. This is a set of cocktail napkins that …read more

I really like this Hostess Helper Cheese Gift Tray and know that I would enjoy receiving it as a gift. Not only can you re-use the tin that it comes in, but it also has a stable shelf life of 12 months. This is something the hostess will not have to use right away and after she does use it, she’ll have a lovely tin to remind her of you.
The tin comes with four different cheeses:  a 3.75-oz. box of Camembert and a 3.75-oz. box of Brie pasteurized process cheeses, a 4-oz. triangle of Wisconsin Hot Pepper pasteurized process cheese …read more

This is a fantastic video about making cocktail stations at your holiday party. You can make drink stations with non-alcoholic drinks also. This is a fun holiday party idea!

With Christmas right around the corner and New Year’s on its way, most likely you have or will be invited to a party or two. I always think it’s a good idea to bring the host/hostess of the party a gift. The gift is just your way of telling them thank you for inviting you and showing them that you appreciate them.
Over the next few weeks, I’ll give you some great hostess gift ideas. Some you can make yourself and some are a little more extravagant.
I love this first hostess gift idea and I got this idea from the book …read more