Every year I throw a Valentine party for my high school friends and their kids. It is so much fun, and a tradition I love. With a few of the kiddos being new readers, I thought it would be fun to do a Valentine detective party where they can solve different clues to find out
I have been dying to show you all these easy Christmas ornaments and tags I made this year. They are a great way to personalize your tree and gifts this holiday season. I used the adorable Felicity Jane | Fa La La kit and whipped these babies up in minutes. Head over to the Craftsy
One of the favorite projects at my advent workshop was gold foiling tags. Everyone couldn’t believe how easy it was. I have a gold foil printing tutorial for you today showing how you can make your own gold foil prints at home. Professional printers charge a lot to gold foil, but for a tiny fraction
The Advent Calendar Workshop a few weeks ago was so much fun. It has made me even more excited for my next workshop in January. I was surrounded by family and friends, both old and new. We all had a great time creating our Advent Calendars while mingling and eating some yummy treats. Take a
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Black Friday deals are upon us. I love being able to share Silhouette’s amazing sales with you. You all know I’m a huge fan of Silhouette and can not live without my machine. I wish I were kidding. My Silhouette CAMEO is amazing and I use it
My Christmas Advent Calendar Workshop is just over a week away. I’m so excited to teach you all fun, new techniques and introduce you to tools that will make crafting a breeze. Today I wanted to give you a little overview of the workshop and what we’ll be doing. You do NOT need to be
The day has finally come that I get to share this huge project I’ve been working on. YAY!!! I am so excited to announce I will be hosting craft workshops every three months or so, and the first one is this beautiful Christmas Advent Calendar. Everything you need to make this advent calendar is included
My niece requested a dress up party for her fifth birthday. This fits her personality perfectly. She loves pretty things, especially those that sparkle. I had fun creating these dress up designs using a pearly pink, gold glitter, and gold and silver foil paper. The make-up compact has a latch to close just like the
I am doing a little preschool at home for my boys this year. They are only two so I’m keeping it pretty informal and simple. I made a few things for “circle time” I wanted to share incase any of you out there would like to do the same thing. Part of our circle time
I tried these out a month or two ago when I was trying to find tiny 1″ honeycomb balls to hang on pineapples for a party favor. They were hard to find online and when I did find some they were $1 a piece. That was too pricey in my book, so I kept looking and stumbled
This baby of mine is absolutely perfect in every way. I can’t get enough of her sweet smiles and chubby cheeks. She is very happy and content and loves to talk all day. Her brothers smother her with hugs and kisses and she just smiles at them, for the most part. She has brought so
We blessed Reese a few weeks ago at church and had our family over afterward for brunch. I kept it much simpler this time than I did when we blessed the boys. Like, a millions times simpler. I had more free time then with two newborns napping, than I do now with two wild toddlers
There are several ways to bind a booklet, and today I’m going to show you a simple way using some string, a needle and hole punch (optional). You can follow the illustration above or use the step by step pictures below. Fold all your pages in half. Align the centers of all the papers. Mark
Here’s a great little project to get your kids excited for school. A simple calendar and planner that they can mark holidays, birthdays, field trips or even track the weather in. I printed out a few blank calendars on cardstock. Four calendars on a sheet, two on each side. I then printed out all the
I thought doing the brush script quotes and phrases would be a piece of cake and I could just whip them all up in an hour. Wrong. It took a lot of practice and experimenting to figure out which brushes and paints worked best for me. I’m sharing what I found worked to help save
