Have a Gooseberry Patch Christmas

Gooseberry Patch creates beautiful, festive books filled with recipes and how-to's to help you create a wonderful Christmas holiday for your family and loved ones. With over 100 titles and more than 7 million cookbooks sold, the Gooseberry Patch brand is synonymous with quality and value.

Everyday folks send in and share thousands of recipes from their own kitchens, and Gooseberry lovingly selects the very best for each new cookbook. In addition to great recipes, Gooseberry also offers tips and ideas to help make your holidays special occasions your loved ones will cherish and remember.

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Here are some of the ideas offered by Gooseberry in their book, "Gooseberry Patch Christmas, Book 1: Merry Ideas, Recipes and How-To's for the Happiest of Holidays!":

• Put an album together for your children featuring all of the wonderful things they did during the year.
• Make a copy of your kids' letters to Santa and store them. Don't forget to mail the originals to Santa!
• Put together a small Christmas tree for your child that is just for them. Set it up in their room. Make sure the theme is of something they love: sports, dolls, tea party, and so on.
• Start a collection of Christmas books.
  
• Make a big bowl of popcorn and sit down to watch your favorite Christmas movies.

In addition, in  this book they share recipes like Pork Crown Roast, Farmhouse Honey Wheat Bread, Chocolate Snowball Truffles, and Gingerbread Coffee Cake.

Here are some more holiday ideas from the Gooseberry Patch collection of Christmas books:

• Create a Family Memory Wreath: fill it with treasured mementos that mark special events and milestones.
• On November 30s make a list of 24 Christmas activities.  Do one each day starting on the first of December; it will be your countdown to Christmas.
• Give a loved one a basket with everything they'll need to store their memories: a blank scrapbook, scissors, glue, photo corners, markets, and so on.