Last Day of Kindergarten & This Year’s Teacher Gift

You're My M&M Teacher! Teacher Gift

Today’s the last day of school. The last day my baby girl will be a Kindergartner, and it’s bittersweet. It feels like just yesterday she was learning how to walk across the living room, rather than learning how to read and write. She’s learned so much this past school year, and I’m so thankful to [...]

Mother’s Day Craft: Felt Flowers on Canvas

Felt flowers on canvas - Mothers Day craft

I participated in a campaign on behalf of Mom Central Consulting for Elmer’s. I received product samples to facilitate my review & a promotional item as a thank you for participating. As always my thoughts are my own. —————– Since Mother’s Day is this weekend I thought it would be nice for the girls to [...]

Kitchen Kapers: Five Easy Ways to Modernize Your Kitchen

Kitchen Kapers - Five Easy Ways to Modernize Your Kitchen

Is your kitchen outdated? Are you still sporting the same linoleum from the 70′s? Do your pots and pans look like they belong on the set of The Brady Bunch? If so, then it sounds like you need to take advantage of these five easy ways to modernize your kitchen and get your home brought up to speed with the [...]

A Simple Piece To Spice Up Our Home: Button Letters Artwork

A mix of colors that work well together

Last year, I won a giveaway for a set of wood letters from The Enchanting Workshop. I wasn’t sure what letters I wanted to get, but I decided on the word “family”. These letters are beautifully created from great quality wood. Much nicer than the ones you buy at the craft store. Unfortunately, I put them aside [...]

How to Make Your Home Feel Bigger for Your Family

Make a Small House Feel Bigger

What happens when you live in a home that is just too small for your family? This is our dilemma right now. Our ever expanding family is slowly outgrowing our current home, and as much as we would love to purchase something that would be a better fit for our family, the housing market is just [...]

Tootsie Pop Butterfly Valentine’s Day Cards

Butterfly Tootsie Pops

Is it too cliche to say I love Valentine’s Day? I mean it is the holiday of love, right? I know some of you may dislike the holiday, because of how commercial it is now, or the fact that you may not have someone to call your Valentine on Valentine’s Day, but it doesn’t have to be [...]

Handprint In Heart Keepsake for Valentine’s Day

Handprint in Heart Keepsake

A couple of weeks ago I was looking online for some Valentine’s Day craft ideas to make with the girls. I stumbled onto Oriental Trading Co. and found a few different crafts that were super cute, but I didn’t really want to pay for them. This Handprint In Heart Keepsake for Valentine’s Day, was one [...]

Strawberry Shortcake Birthday Party

Strawberry Shortcake Party

Forgive me for my slowness on this one. Earlier in December we celebrated my two younger girls’ birthdays at a local gymnastics place. It was small, just a few close friends and their kiddos. I wouldn’t have planned a party for Kendall who turned three, but since the baby was turning one, I felt obligated [...]

5 Cool Ways to Decorate Your Children’s Room

Kids' Bedroom Ideas

Children’s rooms should be as happy as childhood itself. It should have cheerful colors, lots of toys, lots of light and a fairy tale quality. When I was little, I told my parents I wanted to have the same bedroom like the boy Elliot from “ET”. If you remember, his bedroom was big, including a large toy [...]

A Witch, A Ghost, and A Pumpkin

Halloween 2012 blog

Excuse me for getting this up late, I’ve been slacking, yes. This year, I decided to buy my oldest a witch costume from Kmart, to go with the pumpkin costume I bought the baby last year (after Halloween, on sale). I wanted to stick to a theme with the girls, and have Kendall be a [...]

A Boo-dorable Halloween under $10

Halloween Wreath

First off, let me preface this by saying that I am historically the cheapest person on the planet when it comes to decorating. I love to make things! I adore Pottery Barn, but I can’t realistically spend for it year-round. Holiday decorating can be done on a budget, and with the invention of things like; [...]

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