How to make your own Christmas stocking.

Forget going to the store. Make your own Christmas wreath at home in just thirty minutes.

Add one more touch to your Golden Maine Christmas tree.

Peter Alexander, president of the Maine Songwriters Association (MSA), is hosting the finalists of the second annual MSA contest to find the best songwriter of the year this weekend at Frontier Cafe in Brunswick. Maine, and especially Portland, is brimming with talented musicians (see numbers 13 through 17 in our Reasons to Love Portland), and the contest seeks to highlight some up and comers in the state. Alexander provided us with sample songs from this years contestants.

The YCB's bring you a recipe for those longing for the perfect comfort food of youth — spaghetti o's. 

Three different ways to make pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving. 

An incredibly easy and useful craft project to help you get organized. 

A recipe of steamed mussels for a yankee father.

A recipe for chorizo con huevos comes to Maine by way of the Mexico-Texas border.

This meal is a great twist on eggs. My good friend is from McAllen Texas, which sits on the Mexico-Texas border. Chorizo and Eggs is a favorite of his, and he cooked it for me one morning and I about fell off my chair. Flavorful and fresh would be the best ways to describe this meal.  Chorizo is found in grocery stores near the deli/meat isle. If you are lucky enough to have a Mexican market near by, that would be the place to get this wonderful meat.

Hurricane Sandy is set to hit the United States as a category 1 hurricane later today, but already there is flooding across the Northeast. How exactly it will impact Maine is unclear, but we want to encourage everyone to take every precaution necessary for what may be tropical storm strength winds across the state. 

One can find information for how to prepare for such storms at official Web site for FEMA ready.gov and everyone should keep on eye on your local weather forecasts to follow the track of this storm as it moves towards Maine.