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Daily DIY: How to Make a Paperless Origami Reindeer

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Photo: Craft Stylish

Yep, you read that right --- paperless origami. Read on, friends!:

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The DIY Reel: Organization Secrets for Your Kitchen

With holiday entertaining at its peak, it's time to get organized! Luckily, our resident AOL decor expert Kelly Edwards is here to share her top notch organizational methods for the kitchen -- perfect for anyone in need of some calm amidst the storm of holiday entertaining.

I love Kelly's idea for crafting your own chalkboard paint. How lovely would it be to keep a bright sunny yellow chalkboard in your kitchen as a grocery list? Better yet, paint your entire cabinets in a DIY chalkboard paint for endless list-making fun.

Not into chalkboards? Try a fun DIY pin board solution with Kelly's easy instructions. Proof that kitchen organization is sometimes as easy as making one handly list (and checking it twice, of course!).

Thanks for the tips, Kelly!

Winter Fun: 10 Outdoor Activities Your Kids Will Love

Keep your kids engaged in the outdoors throughout the coldest winter months. It's all about coming up with ideas that inspire their young minds. Here are 10 fun winter activities you can try with your little ones.

1. Build an obstacle course. Use anything you like: patio furniture, cardboard boxes, tricycles etc. Award small treats as prizes ... just make sure each little competitor gets a prize!

2. Ice candle evening. Bring some wintertime magic to your yard by adorning it with candles secured in old cans. Only mom or dad get to handle the matches, naturally.

3. Bird watching 101. Create a bird-watching observation station by setting up a variety of bird feeders near a window. Your kids will learn about birds just by watching for a few minutes a day.

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Daily DIY: Make a Papier-Mache Winter Village

In case you haven't noticed, it's a winter wonderland outside! Bring the snowy weather indoors with these sweet papier-mache villages that are super easy to make!:

Supplies:
* Small cardboard boxes
* Cereal boxes or thin cardboard
* Masking tape
* Scrap paper
* Tissue paper
* White school glue
* Acrylic or tempera paint
* Paintbrush
* Glitter

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Holidash Highlight: Super-Sweet Christmas Cookies

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Photo: Axel Buhrmann, Flickr

Our friends at Holidash are back at it; this time with a few fantastic sugar cookie recipes for you to DIY this season. Let's get started!

One of the most essential Christmas cookie recipes is the sugar cookie. Without it, we wouldn't be able to have a sea of vanilla-y Christmas-shaped treats to ice and feast on every year. They allow us to make warm, edible snowflakes, Santas, and even the whole gang of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. If you're looking for that prime sugar cookie recipe, try one of these great options below:

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How to Hold a Wine Glass

If you're already sweating the upcoming workplace holiday party, maybe a little wine glass 101 will boost your confidence ... thus helping you make a good impression on the boss! The trick to drinking wine in public is to be comfortable with your beverage. You don't want to come across as a wine nerd, but neither do you want to seem uninitiated.

Central conundrum: is it ever okay to cradle the glass in your hand? Or should glasses be grasped by the stem? Wine and fine dining experts make quite a fuss about this, insisting the elegant stem grip is the only way to go. They say it prevents body heat from warming the drink and also keeps messy fingerprints from obscuring the beverage's fine hue.

That's the theory anyway ... and not everyone agrees with it. WineCOW, for example, writes it off as a classic bit of wine snobbery, sagely noting that gently grasping the bowl for a mere few minutes is unlikely to warm the drink or muss up the bowl all that much.

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Daily DIY: Craft an Elf Bowling Set

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Photo:The Long Thread

Your little ones will bowl over for this crafty gift, and you'll have a ball making it!:

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ShelterPop Swap: Easy Gifts You Can Make -- For Under $20

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Photo: Country Living

ShelterPop is at it again, this time with super easy holiday gifts you can make for less than the cost of a dinner for two. Ready for the round-up?:

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