How to Install a Dimmable Light with Dimmer Light Switch One of my favorite ways to update my house is changing out the lighting. It’s such an easy way to update a room without having to do a lot and spending a lot of money. You can really brighten up a room (literally) with a…
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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…
DIY Valentine’s Day Tic Tac Toe Board Game
DIY Valentine’s Day Tic Tac Toe Board Game- How to Add Heat Transfer Vinyl to Wood If you are new to xTool and laser cutters, check out my beginners guide to the xTool M1. Valentine’s Day is coming up soon and it’s time to start thinking about the class parties that happen for it. It…
How to Engrave a Logo onto Leather with the xTool M1
How to Engrave a Logo onto Leather with the xTool M1 If you are new to xTool or laser cutters, then check out my beginners guide. I love personalizing things. I love putting my own personality into things that I wear or have in my home. I love having things that are special and…
How to Engrave Handwriting onto Metal with a xTool
How to Engrave Handwriting onto Metal with a xTool If you are new to the xTool and laser cutters, check out my beginners guide to the xTool. There is something special about unique and personalized jewelry. It is so fun to have something to wear that is sentimental and you can’t just go to the…
Beginners Guide to the xTool M1- How to Use xTool Creative Space
Beginners Guide to the xTool M1- How to Use xTool Creative Space This post is a sponsored post. I was given the xTool M1 machine to review. All opinions, ideas and content are 100% my own. Laser cutters are all the rage right now, they can do so many things. They can cut wood,…
Young Women 2023 Theme- More Jesus Sweatshirt
Young Women 2023 Theme- More Jesus Sweatshirt The Young Women theme of 2023 is more Jesus. The Young Women’s president in my ward contacted me and asked me to make hoodie sweatshirts with the Young Women 2023 theme on them. I love how they turned out and the girls were thrilled about getting them for…
Most Likely to Christmas Shirts
Most Likely to Christmas Shirts I love making Christmas pajamas. Every year we give our kids Christmas pajamas on Christmas Eve. Some years I make matching pajamas and some years I make different one and some years I just buy them. Here are some of the Christmas pajamas I have made in the past. A…
Dining Room Cabinets- How to Add Extra Kitchen Cabinets
Dining Room Cabinets- How to Add Extra Kitchen Cabinets We have a storage problem in our house. We have a nice big house, with lots of open space but we do not have very big closets. Our pantry is small and we don’t even have a coat closet. So we have to come up with…
Blush and Gold Nightstand Makeover
Blush and Gold Nightstand Makeover For the past couple weeks, I have been redoing my daughter’s room. She is now 10, so she is gradually moving out of the little girl stage, into the tween stage. So we painted over the rainbows and unicorns in her room and are adding more “grown-up” pieces. She choose…
How to Put Laminate Floors on Top of an Existing Floor
How to Put Laminate Floors on Top of an Existing Floor Did you know that you can put a floating floor on top of an existing floor? Yup, it is true! You can put a floating floor on top of an existing floor, as long as it is a level and solid surface. You can…
How to Install Gray Laminate Stairs with White Risers
How to Install Gray Laminate Stairs with White Risers We have been in our house for almost 7 years and we have been wanting to replace the carpet that is on our stairs. Our cats ruined it the first year of living here, so we have been talking about replacing it since then. We thought…
Among Us Valentines with Printable
Among Us Valentines with Printable Valentine’s Day is coming up and I knew exactly what kind of valentines my kids would want to make this year- Among Us valentines. Both my son and daughter requested them this year, so I got to work and made up several different Among Us valentines for them. I personally…
DIY Growth Chart Board
DIY Growth Chart Board I have been wanting to make a growth chart board for my family for awhile now and finally got to it. We have been using just a plain piece of wood for the past several years and my oldest got too tall for it, so it was time to get another…
DIY Face Mask Holder and Organizer
DIY Face Mask Holder and Organizer We live in the state of Washington and they just made it mandatory to wear masks in public, so I needed some way to keep our face masks organized and displayed so we won’t forget them as we leave to go out. I had them in the little green…
4th of July Tie Dye Shirts
4th of July Tie Dye Shirts Every year we make 4th of July shirts and I let my kids make their own. It’s been a fun thing to do every year, the kids look forward to making the red, white and blue shirts and then wearing their own creations. This year we decided that it…
Tips and Tricks on How to Tie Dye Shirts
Tips and Tricks on How to Tie Dye Shirts Tie dye is back in style and I am so excited about this!! I LOVED tie dye shirts in the 90’s and had several. I had one special one (I actually still have it) that I wore to almost every single meet that I went to…
DIY Medal Holder Board
DIY Medal Holder Board This past year I made a goal to get healthy despite my health issues, you can read all about it here. Well in doing so, I did a lot of races. For fun, we did several races as a family and so all of my kids have medals. They needed a…
Sidewalk Chalk Mosaic Art with Words and Shapes
Sidewalk Chalk Mosaic Art with Words and Shapes I’m sure right now everyone is going stir crazy and getting sick of being in their house. This quarantine stuff is not easy, that’s for sure. One activity that has been really good for my family is doing mosaic art with sidewalk chalk. My kids love it…
Family Reunions Shirts with Numbers
Family Reunions Shirts with Numbers and Different Colored Shirts This past summer we had a big family reunion for my Dad’s 80th birthday party. We have a large family, I am the youngest of 9 kids, and so trying to get everyone together is a huge deal. I have always wanted to have a picture…