Create a Snowflake Mason Jar DIY that looks beautiful on your table for a holiday centerpiece. Easily customize your colors and designs while painting your mason jar. This Snowflake mason jar tutorial is so easy to follow and will get your holiday crafting started off perfectly! Snowflake Mason Jar DIY Before you get started on … Read more
Make a Candy Cane Wreath that lays in perfect peppermint hearts and a beautiful red hanging ribbon this season to help bring some holiday cheer to the inside of your home. This inexpensive, fun, and kid friendly DIY loses all the complicated deco mesh that most candy cane wreaths have by skipping the difficult wreath … Read more
I love going to the movies, but its so darn expensive. And with 2 kids and 2 adults, we spend a lot more time at home renting movies but I still want it to feel special. So today I am bringing you a super quick, super fun, and super awesome craft to make your own … Read more
Looking around my house, I still have plenty of space for my own awesome DIY home decor. There is nothing I love more than looking around my home and seeing touches of things that I did to it, and with these ideas from some of the most amazing DIY projects around the web, it’s easy … Read more
Looking for a tutorial on how to make your own DIY LEGO TABLE? You are in the right place. Becuase this week I decided to finally make one. It started like this: the kids are fresh out for summer vacation. As part of summer vacation, I always allow them to each purchase a new toy as … Read more
This “how to build a pond and waterfall DIY” is being supported by smartpond pond products. If you are coming to this post without reading the other two, please note you should start in one of these two places first. How to cap a sprinkler head (preliminary pond building) How to build a Pond and … Read more
Need to know How to cap a Sprinkler head? This is your lucky day! This week we embarked on an adventure I like to call “let’s build a pond in our yard even though we have no idea what we are doing.” It actually turned out to be not as complicated as I thought and … Read more
There are two things in life I know to be true: If you go on vacation you will need a vacation to recover from your vacation If you don’t print pictures you will never seem again..well until Facebook reminds you of what you did 4 years ago Last week we went on a vacation. A cruise … Read more
This Edible playdough recipe without cream of tarter is so easy that you can make in the microwave with just marshmallows and a few complimentary ingredients. Learn how to make this edible playdough below! When it comes to dough recipes online, there are tons of them. From sticky slime dough, cloud dough, sparkly glitter play … Read more
This year we decided to not exchange gifts. Not under the tree with the kids I mean, but family wide. It seems every year we draw names for the adults and then spend 4 weeks agonizing over what to get “Uncle Joe”, when in fact we know NOTHING about Uncle Joe. True story: A few … Read more
How to make soap There are two ways that you can make soap. You can do it the old-fashioned way with lye and curing and waiting and waiting. Or you can go the melt-and-pour route–buy a soap base, melt it, mix things in, and pour it into molds. This is a melt-and-pour soap tutorial without … Read more
Today I wanted to bring you a really fun and easy parenting project that keeps kids busy for hours and can be used in a variety of ways: Rainbow Soap Foam. This project takes only 3 ingredients and you can customize to fit your particular needs. Whether you are picking rainbow colored foam or getting … Read more
Friday night we finally planted our indoor herbs and created our inside living spice and herb garden to help with fresh cooking! But I have to tell you that I hate these little informative spikes that go into planters. Yes, they do serve an important purpose but they are dirty and ugly. So a quick … Read more
Sugar scrub is something I have always thought about making. It’s easy enough and I knew I most likely had all the ingredients, I just never really gotten around to it! Today I decided to give it a chance and create my own DIY Sugar Scrub Recipe to share with all of you! I love getting rid … Read more
Looking for a quick inexpensive craft to spruce up the home or to give as gifts? Why not make a DIY Chalkboard! With an abundance of frames available to customize your “look” and an easy foam board from any dollar store, you can put a chalkboard into every room in your home! We call this … Read more