Hey...that's funny! I was just sitting here today looking at my sofa pillows and thinking I should get some Christmas pillows sometime!

Thanks for the ideas about the pine cones...we used to go around and gather pine cones that had fallen under the evergreens in the local parks. We've made baskets of them...you can put white lights in among them in the basket, too...it looks really pretty! I never thought of using them with the gingerbread houses, though! And I forgot all about the pine cone baskets...

At a Christmas tea our church put on, we made little trees out of Hershey kisses glued to a foil-covered ice cream cone. It was a relatively easy craft that even I could do! We had been to a Christmas tea at the library the day before and did a craft involving threading a ribbon through some slots to make a Christmas fan...no way, had to stop that one really quick!

Take care...