Layered Wood Farm Sign- How to Engrave and Cut Wood at the Same Time If you are new to xTool and laser cutters, check out my beginners guide to the xTool M1. A couple months ago my husband asked me to make him something to display at his work. I had had my xTool M1 for about a…
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Engraved Wooden Picture Frame with Boise Temple
Engraved Wooden Picture Frame with Boise Temple Today is my parent’s anniversary. They were married on St. Patrick’s Day 61 years ago today! It is the first anniversary since my dad’s passing, so I wanted to make something special for my mom. I know that it is going to be a hard day for her,…
Personalized Wooden Easter Basket Tag with SVG File
Personalized Wooden Easter Basket Tag with SVG File Easter baskets are such a fun way to celebrate the holiday. I love making Easter baskets for my kids to come down to on Easter Sunday morning. It’s fun to see their faces when they see their baskets filled with goodies and candies. This year I thought…
How to Make a Layered Wood Sign with xTool M1
How to Make a Layered Wood Sign with xTool M1 If you are new to xTool and laser cutters, check out my beginners guide to the xTool M1. 2023 in a pretty big year for our family, my oldest son is a senior in high school and is graduating. It just boggles my mind that…
Easy Neighbor Gift Idea- Personalized Cookies for Santa Plate
Easy Neighbor Gift Idea- Personalized Cookies for Santa Plate Every year I make neighbor gifts for Christmas. I usually make 70+ gifts, so I try to come up with a fun idea that is simple, easy and inexpensive. The longer I live in one spot, I harder it is to come up with ideas. I…
Christmas Neighbor Gift Idea- Christmas Monogram Mug
Christmas Neighbor Gift Idea- Christmas Monogram Mug Christmas neighbor gifts are so fun to make. I seriously love making them for my friends, neighbors and co-workers. Since this year has been so crazy, I wanted to make a super simple and easy gift that didn’t take much time or money. So I came up with…
Baby Jesus Walnut Ornament- Easy Christmas Handout
Baby Jesus Walnut Ornament- Easy Christmas Handout This year we headed home for Thanksgiving to be with my family. While we were there, my mom showed me this super cute baby Jesus walnut ornament that my sister had made (she is the Relief Society president in their ward). I just loved how cute it was…
DIY Christmas Tea Towel- Neighbor Gift Idea
DIY Christmas Tea Towel- Neighbor Gift Idea I love Christmas time! I especially love creating fun Christmas crafts and decorating for the holiday. I made a ton of stuff last year, but there were a few things that I didn’t get to, like making these fun tea towels. I love having a fun and festive…
DIY Gift Ideas {MMM #507 Block Party}
It’s gift giving season and here are a bunch great DIY gifts and packaging ideas for giving and helping you gift! Sometimes the best gift is a a gift card or some cold hard cash but when I can I love to include a handmade packaging or tag or card of some sort!
DIY Gifts for Kids {MMM #503 Block Party}
The time has come to start those handmade gift projects. Here are some of our favorite gifts for kids that you can make yourself!
Funny Mens Shirts {Father’s Day Shirts}
Funny Mens Shirts {Father’s Day Shirts} Making shirts is one of my favorite things to do for my family. We love graphic tees and shirts with funny sayings on them but somethings we don’t want to pay a ton of money for them. Making shirts is an easy way to get those fun graphic tees…
Avengers Shirt {I love you 3000}
Avengers Shirt {I love you 3000} Raise your hand if you loved the Avengers Endgame movie! We did! It was such a great movie and I love how they ended the Avengers movies. One of my favorite lines from the movie is the I love you three thousand part. I won’t go into much details…
Color Street New Packaging Gift Pouch for Teachers, Friends and Mother’s Day
Color Street New Packaging Gift Pouch for Teachers, Friends and Mother’s Day Color Street recently came out with some new packaging for their Color Street nails and because the packing is now bigger, my super fun and cute gift pouches I made last year won’t work anymore. So it was time to redesign them and…
Activity Days Birthday Gift Idea- Candy Jars with Floral Tag
Activity Days Birthday Gift Idea- Candy Jars with Floral Tag I recently received a new calling at my church. A calling is sort of a responsibility or job to help serve within the church. My new calling is in activity days. Activity days is a program for 7 to 10 year old girls, we meet…
Easy Neighbor Christmas Gift Idea- Nutella and Pretzels with Printable
Easy Neighbor Christmas Gift Idea- Nutella and Pretzels with Printable Do you ever go shopping and see something that you just love and then you know that you have to buy it and do something with it. That was happened to me when I saw these little mini Nutella jars, they are adorable and I…
Father’s Day Tie Coloring Page Printable
Father’s Day Tie Coloring Page Printable For my church, I teach the sunbeams (3-4 year olds) and so I am always looking for ideas that work with preschool aged kids. Our lessons are about 50 minutes long, which is a really long time for sunbeams, so I like to have lots of activities for my…
Teacher Gift Ideas- Painted Mason Jar School Supplies Holder
Teacher Gift Ideas- Painted Mason Jar School Supplies Holder For a lot of people school is out, but we still have two weeks so I am now getting to the end of the school year gifts, but this teacher gift idea is perfect for teacher appreciation or for back to school teacher gifts. My youngest…
Boy Pajamas Shirts- Mario, Emoji and Football {Cut Files}
Every Christmas Eve we open up pajamas that we get to wear to bed and then wear on Christmas morning. Well as my boys are getting older, it’s harder to find pajamas that have shirts that aren’t too warm (my boys are really warm sleepers) and that aren’t too young looking. It is easy to…
Best Christmas Neighbor Gift – Santa Cookies Plate with Cookies in a Jar
One of my absolute favorite things to give to my friends and neighbors are these Santa plates with cookie mixes. Not only are they a super cute and fun neighbor gift, they are yummy and gives them an activity to do as a family, who doesn’t love that?! I have done them in a few…
Color Street Nails Teacher or Friend Gift Pouch Printable
The holiday season is upon us and I’m sure we are all scrambling to figure out presents for our family, friends and we can’t forget the teachers! Well I am got you covered for the women in your life, because this is a super easy gift to do and I’m sure that they will love…