Hello! How are you all this wonderful weekend?! Isn’t the weather so wonderful? I just love actually being able to play outside without being super hot! We’ve had a busy week over here. Here are a few highlights from our week The biggest thing (pun intended) was we built a playground for our kids! We…
Archives for September 2012
Twin Needle {Melly Sews}
Hello Keeping it Simple readers! Today (as promised last time) I’m going to talk about one of my favorite sewing accessories – the twin needle! I use my twin needles on a regular sewing machine mostly for hemming stretch fabrics, and therefore I prefer Klasse’ Twin Ballpoint Needles Size 80 – 4.0mm. The universal twin needles…
Magic Tree House Dinosaur Party
My kids don’t love to read. It’s like trying to pull teeth when it comes time to get them to read. My 7 year old is an excellent reader too he just doesn’t have a love for it. Then I realized that it was time for him to read chapter books, ones that are actually…
Caramel Apple Salad
It’s the time of the year for apples! I love all the different kinds of apples at the store right now. My favorite are the honey crisp, so yummy! I went to a pot luck dinner a couple of weeks ago and some had made this salad. It is so good and it has just…
Pumpkin Pillow
By now I think you all know that I love making pillow covers for holidays. They are so easy to make, change out and store! Please it’s fun to be able to change up my décor. I went through my stash of fabric and found some awesome orange fabric, so I made a pillow with…
Motivate me Monday #141
Happy Sunday/Monday everyone! Fall is here! I’m excited for cooler weather and getting to wear layers, cardigans and boots again! I love fall and the leaves changing, too bad it lends into winter or it would be perfect :). It’s been crazy busy around here, my husband had budget meetings all week and late night,…
Halloween crafts
I’m a big fan of Halloween. I love decorating for it, it’s so much fun! And there is so much you can do! Here are some of my favorite decorations from last year. 2×4 Characters Candy Corn Wreath Vinyl pumpkins Halloween Pillow Halloween Tile Felt Candy Corn Mummy Pillow I’m having fun creating…
Feed Burner
Something is up with feed burner right now, because I have a big fat ZERO under readers. Lots of people are having the same problem as me. Another problem is that I have heard rumors that they might be shutting down feed burner for good and I don’t know when or if it’s actually true….
Hawaiian Haystacks
My kids are picky eaters. I have one son who will only eat one kind of meat, chicken (well he eats pork but we tell him that it’s chicken). So to find a recipe that everyone will eat, is sometimes hard. This one is nice because everyone can put on their own toppings and have…
Poison Label
Who doesn’t love some good poison? It’s so fun to decorate with it for Halloween, that’s for sure! I took some regular jars and bottles and made some fun labels for using Silhouette’s new printable foil! This summer they came out with new products! They have printable gold and silver foil and then printable white…
Halloween Ladder
I have this super cute ladder that I like to decorate for every holiday. I decorated it for spring/Easter and loved the look of it. I wanted to decorate for Halloween, the only problem was that I couldn’t just run down to the store in Utah (like I did for the Easter one) and get…
Washi Tape Clipboard and Downtown Tape GIVEAWAY
Now that I live in the country and live 45 minutes away from the nearest town with stores, I only go shopping once a week. Those are big shopping trips, so I have to be prepared and not forget things because it will be another week before I can get it. So I decided to…
Motivate me Monday #140
Hello! Happy Sunday/Monday to you! What have you been up to? I have been working on some Halloween crafts and starting to decorate for the spooky holiday! Here are a few of my favorites from last week. Thanks to everyone who linked up! Shattered Mirror art by Polish the Stars Dresser Drawer Window Boxes by Kammy’s…
A Little Glimpse
Happy Saturday everyone! What are you up to today? I think we are going to tackle the room that has all of the random boxes that we didn’t know where to put stuff. Wish us luck! Things are finally starting to slow down. After a summer of constantly going non stop, it’s not to have…
Sewing with knits {Melly Sews}
Hello Keeping it Simple Readers! Since we talked about sergers last time, today I want to talk about sewing with knits. A lot of sewers are scared of knits. I know I used to hate to work with them, but now I’d say more than 50% of my stash is knits. What changed? I learned…
Scrapbooking Attitude: DIY personalized ribbon
It’s the time of year to start thinking about Halloween. I always make some kind of neighbor gift for Christmas, but I thought it would be fun to make something for Halloween too. Adding personalized ribbon just adds just the right touch I think and I did that by using a printable film from Scrapbooking…
Garlic Chicken
The luxury of eating out is something that we don’t have any more. We could eat out if we wanted to travel 45 minutes and wanted to eat fast food. So I have to be a good “house wife” and cook more. Good thing there are lots of good recipes on pinterest that I get…
Soda Stream
Anyone in your house have a little obsession with pop? My husband does! He LOVES Coke Zero. Back in Utah, we would just run to the store just for Coke. We can’t do that here, so I needed a better solution. 2 liter bottles are okay, but they end up going flat by the time…
How to change a chandelier
I don’t know about you, but outdated light fixtures drive me crazy! I just don’t like the look of them and they are so easy to change, so I like to change them out. It’s amazing what a nice and new chandelier (or even light) can do to a room. When we looked at our…
How to change a chandelier
I don’t know about you, but outdated light fixtures drive me crazy! I just don’t like the look of them and they are so easy to change, so I like to change them out. It’s amazing what a nice and new chandelier (or even light) can do to a room. When we looked at our…