Homemade Holiday Gifts for My Neighbors

The tradition had started many years ago with just two of us on our street leaving gifts on each other's door steps. Lots of my neighbors were terrific bakers, and i got tins of cookies and seliphane wrapped cranberry loaves that kept my afternoon tea company for as long as i could make them last one neighbor gave handmade ornaments made of paper or hard baked gingerbread or dried orange slices. A gift i always looked forward to was a simple brown paper sack tied with ribbon that held three paper white bulbs. This year, if my walk to day was fruitful, i was planning to make hanging baubles holly leaves and berries and stems of ivy tied