Hi everyone!!! Do you know what today is?? It’s tax day! This day used to be a HUGE day for us, since my husband is an accountant. But now he doesn’t work at a CPA firm, so it isn’t a big day for us. It’s just another regular day (especially since we’ve had our taxes…
Archives for April 2012
Campus Book Rentals and Operation Smiles
When I was in college, I always dreaded buying the textbooks. It wasn’t uncommon to spend about $500 on books!!! Half the time I didn’t even read them…. So it was some pretty wasted money. I remember when I was in Organic Chemistry (chemistry was my major). My BIL took the class two years earlier…
A little glimpse
Hi everyone!!! I hope that you all are having a great weekend. I did something this week that I have wanted to do a very long time. Can you tell by this picture? This week I got braces!! When I first married my husband I told him that I wanted braces and…
Guest Post: Ombre Penny Art
Hi! I’m Kristen from My Covered Bridge! I’m SO excited to be a guest blogger today at Keeping it Simple! Since I’m still pretty new to this blogging world, let me introduce myself. I’m a happily married stay-at-home mom with four not so little kids. My husband, Craig, and I are completely remodeling and decorating a home we…
LifeStyle Crafts: Letterpress
Did you know that the awesome Epic 6, has a kit that has printing plates? It’s called the Letterpress and it’s pretty cool!!! Using the letterpress starter kit and the blossoms printing plates, I made these fun cards. This is how I made them: I first put the plates…
Supermom shirt
I have this amazing friend. She just recently moved about 9 months ago and is now planning to move again, across the country. Her husband is going to be moving before she does because she wants to wait until school ends. He is going to be gone for 2 months!! To get through the long…
Color Me Rad winner
The Color me Rad race is approaching fast, only 2 1/2 weeks left. I used to be able to just go and run three miles without any training, now I have to work my way up. Mostly because of my dumb back. It just hurts when I run and that’s never happened before. So slowly…
Petal Skirt
Last Easter I went all out and made something for everyone in the family. This year, I decided to just make something for myself :). I have no clue how I decided to make a skirt like this. I was just thinking one day and the idea hit me. I liked it so much that…
Motivate Me Monday #117
Sponsor of the week: Craftyvinyl.com Happy Easter!! I hope that you had a fabulous holiday! We had beautiful weather so it was prefect for an Easter egg hunt and then a walk. I love spending time with my cute family!!! Now for the links from last week: Duvet Cover by The Train to Crazy Blue…
Hoppy Easter!!!
Happy Easter to our family to yours!!! I hope that you all have a wonderful Easter Sunday!!!!
A little glimpse
This week was spring break for us. It wasn’t a very exciting week. We really didn’t do much. My husband had to work all week (he doesn’t have any time off because it’s a new job…) and the weather wasn’t super great. I did start running this week to train for the Color Me…
One last Easter project
At church, I teach 10 and 11 year old girls. Saturday evening I’m always planning my lesson… I’m a procrastinator. Tomorrow is the Easter lesson and I wanted to give them something to remember Easter for Christ and not for the candy. So I made each of them a little board with this scripture. I got…
Sexy Modest Boutique GIVEAWAY!
I don’t know about you, but my wardrobe is lacking…. it’s not lacking in quantity because I have a ton of clothes. It’s lacking in style! I like my shirts plain and simple, usually just a solid color. They don’t have any pazazz. I really need to update my style and get some super cute clothes!! I…
Lifestyles deal!!!
I have a great deal for you today!!! Life Style crafts has sale on their die cutting machine Revolution. It’s only $59.99, but if you use my coupon code SIMPLE, you can get another 20% off, making it only $47.99!!!! The Revolution is has a 4″ magnetic plate, so when you put the metal die…
Guest Post: Wayward Girls’ Crafts
Sponsor of the week: Hawthrone Hill Hi I’m Just Jaime from Wayward Girls’ Crafts Thank you so much, Kaysi, for having me! Here’s a little bit about me: I feel so lucky I get to blog and craft with my three sisters and mom. We acknowledge our crafts are not perfect but that they…
Breathing Space Retreat winner
Thanks to all that entered the Breathing Space blogger retreat. And now for the winner……. The winner is #17!!! And #17 is….. LeanneMar 29, 2012 10:46 PM I like Breaathing Space on Facebook. Congrats Leanne!!!! Email me at kaysiscrafts@gmail.com and I will forward on your info!
Tot Thursday: Chalkboard Chore Chart
We struggle with chores at our house. My kids aren’t good at doing them and a lot of times it’s a lot less frustrating for me to just do them instead of having to be the bad guy and constantly yell at my kids to get their chores done. Please tell me I’m not the…
Color Me Rad 5K GIVEAWAY
I’m a runner. That’s what I did and loved in high school. And I was pretty good at it. Then I had some babies and that is what I did to get the weight off. I actually ran 3 half marathons. Then I had my fourth baby and I really haven’t run since. I did…
Guest Post: Pleated board
Sponsor of the week: Hawthrone Hill Today I’m excited to have one of my good friends from when I lived in Kansas. She’s the one that bought my CriCut and she’s done some amazing things with it! She’s super crafty and talented! Hi! I’m Stephanie from western Kansas. I’m a wife to an hard-working, somewhat…
Tutorial Tuesday: T-Shirt Scarf
Lately I have been trying really hard to bump up my fashion a little bit. I’m not very stylish and slowly I’m going to add an accessory here and there. I saw this cute scarf and it looked easy and I had everything I needed for it right then! This is how I made it:…