I’ve been slowly making progress with the Christmas decorating. Â I’m planning to be done approximately one day after Christmas. Â Today, I tackled the mantel. Â I have my upcycled yard sale mirror that I LOVE, but it is not very Christmasy, so I had to get a little creative with the color scheme for the mantel. …
I decorated my tree. Â I’m going to share what I love about it with you. I love that my kids decorated it with me and my son sang Christmas carols while we did it and then he and his sister sat down and read the Christmas story out loud. Â Together. I swear. Â No joke. Â They …
My kids are 7 and 10, and I swear, I already am having a hard time figuring out unique presents for them that will actually pull their attention from the dreaded “screens”. Here are some ideas: I love this 3 in 1 game table because even if my kids don’t like it, I’ll totally play …
Remember I made the kids Advent Calendars out of K-cups?  Well, I didn’t just repurpose the cup.  I repurposed the coffee that was leftover in the cup, too! I made another sugar scrub.  A few months ago I made a lemon and a brown sugar scrub and I really love them both.  They leave  my skin …
Many months ago I started thinking about how many k-cups I use in a week. Â It’s a lot. Â I started saving them instead of throwing them away because I thought that there must be a way I could repurpose them. Â I found ideas for using the cups for seed starters, stringing them into garland and …
I had our monthly Girl Scout Meeting this  past weekend and I wanted to do something sort of Thanksgiving themed.  All of the Thanksgiving crafts I found were a little immature for ten year olds, so I settled on these adorable Native American Inspired Dream Catchers.  They satisfied my self imposed Girl Scout craft rules …
Every once in a great while the craft gods shine down upon me and something turns out seriously awesome. Â As in, I can’t believe that thing was born from my hands. Â Tonight, friends, was one of those nights. Tonight I made this DIY Yarn Christmas Tree. ***This post contains affiliate links. If you click …
Sometimes I get down on myself because I have never come up with an original craft in my life. Â I end up doing a lot of copy cat crafts. Â Ok? Â I admit. Â If there is no support group for this, I think I should start one. Â Who’s with me? Here’s the thing though that I …
I’m getting ready for Thanksgiving. Â I know, everyone else in blogland is getting ready for Christmas already. Â But I really love Thanksgiving. Â It’s my favorite holiday. Â I love the food and the not having to buy presents. Â And family time, too. Â But mostly the food. Â This year I am going to try for a gluten …
I’m obsessed with these little felted wool woodland creatures that pop up in my Pinterest feed.  They are so adorable and they look like they take some serious artistic talents, so I’m not about to attempt one of those (not yet, anyway!). But I have also seen cute little felted balls strung into garland or adorning …