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Luke and Lila have been coming home from kindergarten with a lot of really great artwork. I’m not overly sentimental about saving or even displaying all kinds of school projects but I’ve been quite impressed with the quality of their art and decided it would be fun to have it on a changing display. A […]
For a long time, Tate has spent her time out sessions in a pack ‘n’ play set up in my room. I recently got tired of having such a cumbersome time out spot and trusted that Tate was ready to sit on a stool and endure her time so I embellished this simple time out […]
After I made my scrabble tile ring {inspired by this beauty} at the Pinterest party, I had some requests for a tutorial. Let me say that this is the bohunk version of the real deal that you can buy on etsy but I’ll tell you what I did. I started by painting the scrabble tile […]
I’m spending part of the weekend on my annual pilgrimage to Canton. We always see groups of girls wearing fun matching shirts when we go and this year we decided we should have some too. We’ll be the girls in pink sporting a little humor on our backs. I’ve started truncating my posts … please […]
A few weeks ago I was pondering a new gratitude idea for Thanksgiving and I came up with this embellished wipeable gratitude plate, a simple way for our family to record things that we’re thankful for throughout the month of November as Thanksgiving draws near. In the past, we’ve had a gratitude tree and a gratitude […]
In October, I hosted a Pinterest party, made a duct tape zebra mask, sewed a little candy corn tunic for the pumpkin patch, gifted an elephant taggy, made a batch of rosemary mint wine jelly, shared costumes new and old {here, here, here, and here}, made a duct tape bag for trick or treating, monogrammed […]
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you know that I love themed parties and playdates. When I saw this adorable party, I couldn’t wait to throw our own little itsy bitsy spider party for Tate’s playgroup. The theme seemed just right for a Halloween party for two year olds. Not […]
Last night I invited a group of friends over for a really fun Pinterest party . It was so much fun to hang out and craft that we might have to make it a monthly event. We all pin things to our pinterest boards but so often we don’t actually get around to trying those […]
With Halloween night quickly approaching, I decided to use my Halloween themed duct tape stash to make a duct tape trick or treat bag for Luke to carry to collect all his candy. This bag is really easy to make and could even be made by the kids with just a bit of adult assistance. To […]
One of my blogging friends is having her first baby, a little girl, in December. She’s decorating the nursery in yellow and gray tones and pulling elephants into the mix. I decided to sew a cute elephant taggy blanket as a gift for little Baby Emily. I didn’t use a pattern for this little travel-sized […]
Last weekend, I harvested some of my {enormous} mint crop, cut some fresh rosemary, and made a couple of batches of Rosemary Mint Wine Jelly. Although the color’s a little funky, the flavor is really nice, and I think it’ll taste delicious with roasted or grilled meat. I always love to have a homemade hostess […]
The mom of one of my favorite people in the whole world is sick. In the midst of her battle, she came up with a neat idea to help her grandsons understand heaven and God’s victory over sickness and death and asked me to help. Grandma and the boys plan to dress up military style […]
After looking at this year’s Halloween costumes {if you missed them, click here, here, here, and here}, I thought it would be fun to look at homemade costumes from the past. And in so doing, I realized that my poor younger kids have worn their fair share of storebought costumes. In fact, that’s all Luke’s […]
When we saw this idea for a book fairy halloween costume online, Kennedy loved it and knew this would be a really fun costume to wear. We used this great tutorial as a guideline and made very few changes. This is such a fun costume and we made it from one old dictionary found at Half Price Books so […]
