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What would Christmas and the holidays be without all the treats and goodies that go along with it? Here is a great little eBook called “A Home Made Christmas.” This book has 100 simple and delicious recipes for all your special holiday meals, from a great array of dips and drinks to all the main courses and sides you could want to make for your holiday feast. And if that’s not enough, there’s also an amazing array of desserts, cakes and cookies to finish it off.

Included as a bonus is another eBook called “The Vintage Christmas Countdown.” This is a fascinating and beautifully illustrated book that has a series of articles about the history and origins of Christmas. Includes recipes, vintage art and wonderful vintage Christmas desktop wallpaper downloads. Each day features vintage artwork and illustrations from the turn of the 20th century and earlier.

Note that these are electronic books in Adobe PDF format that you download to your computer. Go check out “Home Made Christmas.“

Here is a Christmas coloring book for children in PDF format that I am allowed to give away here. My wife loves downloadable coloring books like this so she can just print out the pages she likes for our daughters to color.

This one has the words to jingle bells in the beginning and over 70 pages of christmas pictures to print out and color.

If you would like a free copy of this Christmas coloring book for children, just fill in your name and email over in the right column. Or you can go to this page to sign up.

Frank Warren has just released his fourth PostSecret book, A Lifetime of Secrets. Until today, I didn’t know this book or his previous three even existed. I was looking at the blogger entry page and his blog was featured as a staff favorite. What an amazing project. People send him anonymous postcards with personal stories and, well, secrets on them and he publishes them in these books. This has been going on for about three years. Here are a couple videos that can give you an idea of what it’s all about:

This next one is more about the current book.

Go check out the PostSecret site.

There are interesting, funny, sad and some absolutely heartbreaking things there. Also, check out the book, A Lifetime of Secrets.