Now that my oldest is in preschool, I got to make home made valentines with them. It was a lot of fun! This is by far the best part of the holiday, coming up with cute rhymes or sayings! I remember one year, filling a funnel with mini M&M’s, putting a piece of thread at…
mod podge
Tutorial Tuesday: Utensil Holder
I needed a better way to store all of my spatulas and other utensils. I don’t have the biggest drawers and the ladles always seemed to get stuck. Plus, my one year loves to pull everything out of my drawers. So I decided to decorate a big jar that someone gave me. I used fabric…
Tutorial Tuesday: Gift box decorations
One thing I don’t like about decorating for holidays is that I feel like I am constantly putting it up and then taking it down and putting new holes in the walls. Sometimes I just get lazy and don’t decorate for holidays. Well I saw this idea to use gift boxes for holiday decor, so…
Craft Room Sign
Thanks to everyone that helped me with all of the word suggestions! I really appreciate it. You guys came up with some really good words. I decided to go with “imagine” “create” and “inspire.” I started with wood. I cut, sanded and painted the wood. Then I stamped on plain paper with a stamp around…
Wood photo puzzle
I saw this wonderful idea and could not resist making one for my family, but I wanted to do mine with photos instead of pictures. After reading her tutorial, I tried to think of another way to make these because the idea of sanding and cutting the blocks didn’t sound too fun, plus we don’t…
Christmas Advent Calendar
I saw this adorable idea here and couldn’t resist doing it. I took 24 squares of paper (cut at 2 3/8″) and rounded the edges with a rounding punch. I then inked the edges with a stamp pad. The circles were made with a circle punch about 1 3/4″ in diameter and then stamped each…