Lifestyles

• 20 Ways One Person Can Change the World for Under $50 a Month

  How can one person change the world? If not the entire worldthen one person’s world? By taking positive action! Look around your community! There are needs every dayon every block.

• Garden Retreats

  Create a garden retreat in your own back yard. Whatever the size of your yard you can create a garden retreat filled with the things you love.

• Easy Does It Christmas Food

  Since my mom always makes a big beautiful dinner and we have so much going on at the time, I usually make a snack buffet table for the Christmas Eve celebration at our house. It is very simple and helps keep my stress level down. I can make all of it ahead of time and just set the table up later.

• 10 Easy Christmas Wedding Favor Ideas

  Having a wedding during the Christmas season brings many possible Christmas wedding favors to mind. Here are 10 favor ideas to help you get started.

• Cherries

  Cherries have been known to date back as early as 300 BC. They were given their name after a town, Cerasus, in Turkey. During the Middle Ages, it was decided that cherries should be eaten at the beginning of the meal. Cherries were thought to be a “cold” fruit that lowered the body temperature and would make people susceptible to fevers.

• Flavoring Sun Tea with Herbs

  Sun tea is very easy to make and is a nice thing to do on a sunny day. It also tastes great and sipping it at the end of a hard day is a great way to relax. If you’re having company over, it’s a great summer beverage to serve. When you flavor sun tea with herbs, you really have something special.

• Cucumbers

  Cucumbers have been around for thousands of years. It is believed that they originated from either Thailand or India. They are from the gourd family, and considered a fruit.

• Pineapple

  In 1535, pineapples were brought to Spain by way of the Spanish explorers that went to America. By the 17th century, pineapples were considered to be a food of the aristocrats of the general French public. Even Louis XIV had hothouses producing pineapples!