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By giving gifts, kids learn how to give. But since they often don’t have money of their own, parents buy gifts and give on their children’s behalf. Lets face it, there are some pretty unique gives in South Carolina. But this holiday season, set up some space in your apartment in Ridgeland, SC to make some gifts with your kids. By making gifts, your children can really learn the gift of giving. Here are a few ideas for gifts that children can easily make for their loved ones.
 
Crafts with Hand-print

Grandparents love to see how their grandchildren grow. Make gifts with hand prints and they can turn into a family tradition. Dish towels, hand towels, T-shirts, table cloths, BBQ aprons and cloth napkins work well for hand-print crafts. Squirt fabric paint onto a paper plate. Lay out your fabric gift on a piece of cardboard. Press your child’s hand into the paint and then press it onto the fabric to leave a hand print behind. Your kids can decorate it further with fabric markers, but be sure to write the year too.

Make a Fleece Throw

Making a fleece throw is easy for kids because it doesn’t need to be sewn. Your kids can make a fleece throw with two same-size rectangles of fleece; they don’t have to be the same color or pattern. Cut 1-inch pieces of fringe all around the outside edges of both pieces that are about ½- ¾ inches apart. Lay them on top of each other then tie the fringe from each one together. Continue until all the fringe is tied.

Chanukah and Christmas bring us the season of giving, teach your kids how to give as well as receive during this holiday season.

South Carolina is known for its food, and now you can be a part of it. We grow some pretty great ingredients here in our backyard too: peaches, pecans, gold rice and peanuts, not to mention Beaufort area oysters, shrimp, crabs just to name a few. Southern food tastes great, and when it comes to original cuisine, South Carolina leads the way! But its not just our ingredients we love, it is our recipes too, benne seed wafers, BBQ, shrimp and grits, fried chicken, hush puppies, corn bread, oyster roasts and all kinds of Low County food favorites.

The area around Beaufort is a gastronomic heaven. Have you got any heirloom family recipes that you can’t wait to break out? Are you a secret chef who has been cooking up a storm in your apartment in Ridgeland, SC. Well if you like cooking with fresh native South Carolina ingredients, here is your opportunity for your claim to fame.

The Lee Brothers are at it again. This time it’s the Lee Brother Your Holiday search for South Carolina’s favorite original holiday recipe. The recipe needs to showcase at least one Certified South Carolina grown ingredient.

You can submit one original recipe per day online at facebook.com/LeeBrotherYour Holiday now through Nov. 30 for a chance to have your favorite recipe printed and displayed in grocery stores across the state. You’ll also get to meet the Lee Brothers and prepare a meal with them.

Submissions in these categories: entrees, sides, appetizers, desserts and baked goods. Matt and Ted Lee will pick the finalists.

Good luck, we hope a “chef” from Auston Chase wins and invites us over for dinner.

South Carolina plays a huge role in the presidential primaries, and the fall season really does start off the “big race”.

As residents of South Carolina, we know how important this state is. We also know that presidential hopefuls will continue to visit us. At Auston Chase Apartments in Ridgeland, SC we will keep you apprised of the visits by all the candidates on both sides of the ticket.

If you are undecided, or unfamiliar with the candidates, you are in luck. Republican Party presidential hopeful Rick Santorum will make campaign stops Saturday on Hilton Head Island and in Bluffton. If you are voters and live in either a home or apartment near Hilton Head Island, learn about the candidates. You can see Santorum speak and ask questions.

The former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania will speak before members of the Beaufort County Republican Party and local Republican clubs beginning at 1 p.m. at Aunt Chiladas Easy Street Cafe, 69 Pope Ave. on Hilton Head. A Hilton Head Island resident, Tom Hatfield, is coordinating Santorum's visit.

Santorum will then speak at 5 p.m. at Golden Corral, 1196 Fording Island Road in Bluffton.

Both events are free and open to the public.