I love to add a handmade feel to my gift wrap each year. Last year I went with dollar store butcher paper and rubber letter stamps. This year I was wandering through Hobby Lobby and kept seeing all kinds of adorable chalkboard decor. As I got to the Christmas wrap section the thought struck me,…
Every year I try to do something special for those on my Christmas list, even if it’s just a little something. As stated in a previous post, this year I ordered several vinyl decals from DivaVinyl on Etsy (link at bottom of post) and I’m so excited to share a few ideas with you so you…
I recently had a new family move in across the street from my house and I wanted to welcome them to the neighborhood with a handmade gift. I love my niegborhood but I’ve got to admit that people keep to themselves. The act of knocking on someone’s door with something to give them is almost…
If you love the look of wrapped gifts, but feel like you are all thumbs when it comes to actually wrapping them then this post is for you! From tips on purchasing to step by step instructions, you’ll be wrapping in no time! Just gather all of your tinsel tools and make sure you have…
Crafty people crave the ability to make something useful and then give it away to someone else. It gives us purpose behind our love of creating things. In this machine made, automatic, get it now kind of world we live in, sometimes it’s nice to just make something with your hands or design something you…
Just like Eric Carle’s Very Busy Spider, I’ve been “very busy spinning my web” or so it seems this Halloween! I asked a few friends if I could help them decorate their mantels for you to view/enjoy/copy and they so graciously allowed me to do so and take pictures too. In true ‘thrifty’ style, the…
It’s October and that means that Halloween is on its way. This month brings all sorts of fall fun for everyone whether you are a trick or treat kind of family, a trunk or treat kind of group, or even if you prefer fall festivals. However you celebrate fall with your family, I wanted to…
My wonderful friend Rhonda has the method of decorating that I love. She likes for things to be beautiful in her home, but she keeps it minimal and diverse enough that she can take a simple design and make it stretch through seasons. Last year she did a post for me on her outdoor decor…
My favorite way to bring my family together is gathering around a blazing, warm fire pit. I don’t know what happens around a fire pit but it almost seems magical. Fire has a way of bringing people together. I want to help you make one for free. Anyone can have a fire pit for enjoyment….
Chalkboard. It’s all the rave right now. I see it everywhere and it’s awesome. It’s adorable! While picking up a few things at Hobby Lobby a few weeks ago I found this super adorable wooden pumpkin that screamed “spray me with chalkboard paint and make me amazing!” Not literally, but in my head it did!…
When I think about awesome homemade Halloween costumes, I always think of my friend Rhonda. Rhonda is the queen of how to make your family costumes. Here’s her post that I hope you will love! Store-bought costumes can be so cute, but I have to admit that I love to create clever, inexpensive family Halloween…
So to be honest, I don’t really decorate for Halloween that much. I usually just slap a monogrammed pumpkin on my porch, put up my Happy Fall flag (that looks like it says Happy Fail from the road), and go to my church festival, trick or treating, or a friend’s party. Every year that I’ve…
Even though I love to spruce up my space, I can’t overcome my thrifty side which is why I wrote this post on the thriftiest places to buy home decor furniture as well as other decorative accessories. It seems like sometimes we get so busy in life that our homes become one of two things:…
School is in the air. Can you feel it? Can you smell it? The summer is winding down and retailer’s back to school departments are winding up. For me that means that my son is going to start preschool 2 days each week to give me time to write. Since he has been in a…
There is just one thing I hate about summer shorts shopping. Finding shorts in the length I like! I don’t know if you struggle with finding shorts that fit just right, but I came up with a way that I can wear shorts that fit perfectly and they are just the length I like. Here’s…
I recently did a small, much needed update to my living room drapes, pillows and wall art. Since my floor plan is pretty open, it also required me to change out my kitchen curtains to match. I had a curtain in my kitchen that could be lowered to cover the whole window which I liked…
As I got ready to take down my winter/spring yarn wrap wreath a week ago, I tried to decide what kind of door wreath I wanted to make to replace it. Working with yarn in these Georgia hot & humid summer days seemed unappealing to me. I knew I needed a little craft therapy so…
As Father’s Day approaches, have you considered doing something a little out of the box? What about converting a room he likes hanging out in into a man cave that will make him proud to invite his friends over? (Or make you not so embarrassed to give people a tour.) Our house has a finished…
One of my favorite craft stores is Hobby Lobby. They always have great sales and if the item you want isn’t on sale they always have a 40% off coupon online. I wanted to make Mother’s Day gifts for the grandma’s from my son. I needed a simple gift that I knew they would love…
Since I have become a mom, there have been very few tangible gifts I wanted. The fact is, at the end of the day, the thing I want the most is time. I want time to do things I enjoy and time to sit somewhere quietly without the need to clean a spill, wipe a…
I got the idea for this project while walking around my local thrift store. As I strolled down the home goods aisle and I glanced over at a decorative tissue box cover I thought it strange that I couldn’t think of a place I’d seen tissues decoratively hidden in a while. I pondered what else…
I love the Easter Bunny, not so much the picture-taking Easter Bunny, but the hare who brings the basket and leaves without being seen. As a kid, the Easter Bunny built awesome baskets for me. I always ate the candy and pretty much destroyed the trinket toys. Now that I’m a parent I have…
I love crafting and creating. There is so much joy in using your creativity to make something beautiful and fulfilling. There are many talented people in the world making so many beautiful things, at times it can be overwhelming to think about all the tools it takes to create the projects you dream about. We…
After spending so many hours on Pinterest, seeing the creativity of people out there who can take a piece of trash and turn it into treasure I’ve been on a quest to find a project that would be functional in my own home. Two weeks ago I was venturing down the isles of my favorite…
Guest blogger Rhonda writes: This post is perfect for the winter months when you are stuck in the house, yet you need a ‘pick me up’ or just a little updating especially in the one room of the house that gets used the most: the kitchen. I had a few memory foam rugs in my kitchen…