Fall is one my favorite seasons to decorate for! I just love the colors and the cool crisp air of fall! I wanted to make something with pumpkins, so I could have it up for Halloween and fall. So I came up with these 3D paper pumpkins. They are so easy to make and are…
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Halloween Flashlight
Every Halloween we break out the flashlights for when we go trick or treating. This year I thought it would be fun to dress up our flashlights with vinyl. It’s so fun to see the fun shape come out of the flashlight! This is how I made them: I made some circles and then added…
Motivate me Monday #143
Hello everyone! How are you today? The weekend is now over and it’s time to start another week. I can’t believe that we are now really into October! I should really start thinking about what I’ll be making for costumes this year, still have no clue! Yikes. Thanks to everyone who linked up! There were…
A Little Glimpse
It’s the weekend, yay!! My favorite time of the week! This week we got some little baby chicks! We have a chicken coop in our garage, so we thought it would be fun to raise chickens. That’s the only animal that we will have. We got 15 of them (we’ve already lost one due to…
Spray Painted Turquoise Boots
After reading that title are you thinking that I’m crazy? Well I am, but not because I spray painted some boots… hehe. I am definitely daring when it comes to crafts. I really wanted some colorful boots and I’m too cheap to buy some. So I went to my closet. I have 6 pairs of…
Clothes Pins Halloween Wreath
At my new house, we have three doors that lead the outside. One to our living room, one to our mud room and one to the apartment in the basement. Since we use two of the three all the time, I want to have wreaths on both of them. I have my candy corn wreath…
Eat. Drink. Be Scary Plate
I love the look of plates for decorations. I don’t have a plate wall, but I do like to change out the plates for each holiday or season. Vinyl is such a great thing to decorate the plate with too. This plate I cut out the vinyl using the new Cricut Mini. Are you thinking,…
My Craft Room REVEAL!
This post contains affiliate links. I am so excited to show you my craft room today! By far my favorite room in the house. I just love how it turned out and it’s so awesome to be able to have a room all to myself. I got to make it super girly and cute and…
Motivate Me Monday #142
Happy Sunday/Monday everyone!! I can’t believe that the weekend is already gone, I don’t know what happened to it! This weekend I was able to finish my craft room, so make sure you come back on Tuesday to see my big craft room reveal! I’ve been working on it for a full month and I…
A Little Glimpse
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…
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…