It is summer time, so that means that it is also wedding time!!! Last weekend I went to a wedding and had to come up with an easy idea to make. This one took me about 10 minutes and cost $5, so it was just prefect! This is how I made it: 1) I cut…
Archives for July 2011
Guest Post: Occasionally Crafty
Hi everyone, I’m Valerie from Occasionally Crafty! I am super excited to be here on Keeping it Simple today- Kaysi’s blog is one of the first craft blogs I ever started reading. So many of her projects have inspired me over the past few years, so I am honored to be her guest today. At…
Guest Post: Belle’s Bazaar
Hi all! I am Heather from Belle’s Bazaar and I decided I needed an outlet from my busy life of 3 kids, 1 husband, tutoring and husband’s schooling. This has been surprisingly helpful to remind me that I still have a brain!! My blog is a mish mash of a bunch of things: Muffin Mondays,…
Crib bedding
When I was pregnant with my little girl, I found the cutest fabric!! It just screamed my name. You’ve probably know by now that I love green and I especially love it with blue and brown. So when I saw this fabric I just fell in love with it and I knew that I had…
Tutorial Tuesday: Marshmallow Fondant
Today I am over at the Expressions Vinyl Blog, go check it out! I am not much of a baker. I haven’t made cookies from scratch since I was 16, I accidentally broke my mom’s food processor because the brown sugar was too hard. I have been afraid of it since then. Whenever I make…
Silhouette SD
Silhouette has now launched a new machine called the Cameo (it’s 12 inches instead of 9!). They will no longer sell the Silhouette SD. Right now, they are on sale for $175 and they will go until they are gone. The supplies are limited, so if you want to get a Silhouette SD, don’t wait….
Shabby Apple Sale
The Shabby Apple Sale just got better!! Not only can you get 20%off of almost everything in the store, you can also get free shipping!!! Just use coder SUMMER20. Here are some of their gorgeous dresses that you could get Go find the prefect dress for you at Shabby Apple!
Home Tour: Living Room
We have a nice spacious living room. The built in shelves were that dark purple that was in the entry way, so we had to get rid of that. And then some white trim. We didn’t have to paint this room much, just the trim and the built in shelves. Many pictures and decorations, including…
Motivate Me Monday #80
Another week has gone by, wow! My life is still crazy right now. I can’t wait until we move and settle down and hopefully life will calm down a little bit. I’m a little afraid of moving to Utah, so if you live there, let me know what your favorite thing about living there is,…
Guest post: Growing Up Gardner
Hi there! I’m Amanda from Growing Up Gardner. Let me introduce myself: I’m married to my childhood sweetheart and am the proud momma of a precocious three-year old girl and a bubbly 5-month old boy. Growing Up Gardner is a collaboration of posts about my family, DIY, homeschooling, saving money, recipes, crafts and anything else…
Expression Vinyl GIVEAWAY!!
I’m sure that most of you know about my sponsor Expressions Vinyl. (And if you haven’t heard of them, then you don’t read my blog much :D). I absolutely love them!!! I use their vinyl for a ton of things, home decor, labeling, scrapbooking, the list goes on. They have so many colors that chances…
Home Tour: Nursery
We have lived in this house for three years now and I have done a LOT of painting. Well my favorite room of all is my nursery. I absolutely love it! I just love how it turned out. Here is the before picture: Although I really did like orange well, it just wasn’t cute enough…
Tutorial Tuesday: Ruffle Shirt
I just loved this tutorial from Tea Rose Home and thought that it would fun to make a similar shirt to hers. I scored these two shirts for $1.50 a piece!! I was so excited to find them. I just made one into a short sleeve shirt and then other one I made into this…
Home Tour: Entry Way
Since I’m moving soon, I thought that it would be fun to post all of my before and after pictures of our house. We have lived here for 3 1/2 years and I have painted every room in some way! Oh how I love paint and how it can transform a room. This has been…
Motivate Me Monday #79
Guest Post: The Stuff of Success
I am Athena Nagel from http://www.thestuffofsuccess.com/ and I am so excited to be a guest on Keeping It Simple! I am the proud mom of five kids (two are grown young men) and the younger three have varied special needs. My site is dedicated to accidental learning opportunities for my children, crafts, life and all…
Whatever Wednesday: Quick Shirt Refashion
Here’s a super cute and easy refashion that I did in about 10 minutes. I have long arms and a lot of times long sleeves shirts don’t always go to my wrists, so I didn’t feel bad at all for cutting off the sleeves on this shirt 🙂 All I did was cut off the…
Tutorial Tuesday: Crinkle Toy
When I saw this idea to make a crinkle toy, I knew that I had to make one for my little girl. She LOVES playing with bags and wrappers. So this was prefect, without the danger :). It was so easy too, I think it took about 15 minutes and she loves it! This is…
Motivate Me Monday #78
Well that was INSANE!
So I have had 4 kids in about 5 1/2 years and for some reason with this baby, I really thought that I would be able to lose the weight without dieting or exercising. Boy was I wrong on that one. So after my baby was about 5 months old, I decided that it was…