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I am totally in love with this easy to make fabric hair bow! It's super simple and totally cute! Denim hair bows are super cute, easy to make and only require a few supplies. The best part is, you can wear them in your hair, make them for your little girl or give them away as gifts! Keep Reading >>>
A couple of days ago I was trying to make slime, but I mixed up the steps and ended up making a super bouncy ball instead. So, I decided to let you know how to make a super bouncy ball. I've made these bouncy balls before with cornstarch, and they're cool, but they don't bounce nearly as high as these super bouncy balls do! I think the cornstarch bouncy balls keep their shape longer, so try both! Keep Reading >>>
St. Patrick's Day is one of my favorite holidays. (It seems like I am always saying this every time a holiday comes up-- but still, I love it!) If you're looking for fun St, Patrick's Day themed activities for kids, here's 100 of them! Keep Reading >>>
Stick puppets are my favorite puppet of all. When my daughter was young, we spent countless hours making them, playing with them, and even giving them to pals. One of our favorite ways to make them was with q-tips and stickers. They take seconds to make and are totally fun! All you need are q-tips, baby powder, and a sheet of hard stickers. (Like the kind here.) Just peel the stickers off their sheet and stick to the ends of the q-tip. Now, here's my favorite trick. If you sprinkle a little baby powder onto the exposed back of the sticker, it won't stick anymore. How cool is that? Now Keep Reading >>>
I have always loved glitter. Even when I used to teach school and the other teachers didn't want to use it in their classroom because of how messy it was, I still used it. This year, we decided to give our Easter Eggs some extra sparkle by decorating them with glitter! All you need is elmer's glue-all, hard boiled eggs, a sponge brush and slitter. Just cover your egg in glue then sprinkle the glitter on it. It's really that easy! Keep Reading >>>
You guys this is so simple. It's so simple that I can't even begin to describe to you JUST how simple it is. I mean-- like, seriously. All you do is boil the eggs, and let them cool. Then draw your designs on the eggs with a sharpie. Too easy! It's really that simple! Keep Reading >>>
After we got done dyeing eggs, it was time to eat them! When we pulled off the easter eggshells, we realized that the shells were fantastic and we could make the most adorable mosaic art with them-- so we got to work! It's super simple to do, you just lay down the egg pieces to make your design. If you wanted it to be more permanent, then just put down a coat of glue first and then add the eggshells! Keep Reading >>>
We love to decorate Easter eggs at our house. Sure, you can buy a regular dye kit, but if you want to try something different-- dye your Easter eggs with Kool-Aid! It's super easy, and my favorite part is how awesome it smells! Fill your bowls with about 3/4 a cup of water, pour in a packet of Kool-Aid and drop your eggs into the bowl. Leave them there for about a minute, and then pull them out to dry. Keep Reading >>>
We love rocks. They're seriously one of my favorite things to craft with because they're FREE! I love painting them, but that doesn't always hold up when we put them in the garden outside. So, I found this glitter glue at the dollar store, and we've been painting all of our garden rocks to sparkle! This would be perfect in a fairy garden! Keep Reading >>>
My Daughter and I love pinecones. They're one of our favorite things to decorate, and it's a bonus that they smell so spectacular. We love to make them all fancy and then give them as gifts. Painted, glitter pinecones are super easy to make. All you need is some spray paint, a few pinecones, and some glitter! How do you make them? Keep Reading >>>
My daughter and I are hard at work on our Minecraft Christmas Tree. She's decided that she wants her entire Christmas tree adorned in all things Minecraft, and since creepers are my favorite Minecraft character, I decided to start with these Minecraft Creeper Christmas Ornaments. What you need to Make a Minecraft Creeper Christmas Ornament: Green Christmas Ball Ornament (We got ours here.) Black Sharpie How To Make a Minecraft Creeper Christmas Ornament: Pull up a creeper picture on your phone or print it out for your kids to look at Draw the creeper face on your ornament Keep Reading >>>
Jack Skellington is pretty much the mascot for Halloween right after the Jack-O-Lantern and Frankenstein. These top ten Jack Skellington crafts will help your Nightmare Before Christmas be the best Halloween ever! This little Jack Skellington Keychain from Little Things Blogged makes me want to learn to crochet! (Or knit, I can never tell those two apart.) These Jack Skellington Nails by me will have all the kids begging you to paint some on! I have a Halloween Tree that needs these Jack Skellington Ornaments from Morganized Chaos, and since stores are already stocking the Keep Reading >>>
Photo Credit: Kiwi Crate, Merriment Design, Gleeful Things, Urban Threads, Create Craft Love, Curly Birds, Doodle Craft, & Spoonful It's Almost October, and that means it's time to start showing your Halloween spirit! Here are 20 Make-It-Yourself Accessories that are perfect for Halloween! Halloween Charm Bracelet Scarecrow Candy Necklace Bat Pins Witch Doctor Necklace Spider Bracelet Halloween Hair Ties Halloween Rings Pumpkin Hair Clips Felt Halloween Hair Clips Hot Glue Halloween Necklaces Trick-Or-Treat Necklace Tutorial Ghostly Finger Puppets Candy Corn Keep Reading >>>
Lately, my daughter has been TOTALLY into accessories. The problem with them is that they cost a fortune when I buy them from the store, and they tend to get lost. Well, I have solved both of those problems-- now we make all our own accessories, so they're cheap, and since she worked super hard on them-- she tries her best not to lose them! Photo Credit: Spoonful Here are 100 Accessories Your Kids Can Make: Custom Painted Bobby Pins Sequined Headband Fancy Button and Paper Necklace Spiral Shelled Necklace Sea Treasure Bracelet Small Duct Tape Barrette Bow Flower Keep Reading >>>
Truth be told, scrapbooking is something I love to do, but don't have much time for it anymore. I was looking back at some of my scrapbook projects I've done in the past, and I found this altered spring time altoid tin. Now, if I can just figure out what pictures I want to add to it. :) Keep Reading >>>
Okay, so I own piles and piles of beads. No really, I do. I can't help it. I can't stop buying them. They're so freakin' pretty. I love them. I even have string, and tools for making jewelry, I just can't make it all look beautiful. Every time I try, it ends up looking like something I made at camp. (Side note: how cute are these beads from beads barn? DO WANT!) The thing about beads is, they're tiny, they don't take up a lot of room, you can store like a bazillion of them all in one teeny little container, and you don't have to dedicate an entire closet to the hobby of beading. (Do you Keep Reading >>>
The thing about writing is... sometimes you have to wait. It's pretty much the toughest part of the job. What? You thought it was writing? Oh, heck no... that's the FUN part... the part we all love to do so much that we're willing to endure the other crap that goes alone with it. ... and since I am currently in the "let that project brew and simmer for a while" place--I decided to spend the last week or so getting my craft on the way all stay at home moms should.* Let's see... I learned to hotfix, crochet a boa because I needed a navy blue one and they aren't exactly easy to find, make Keep Reading >>>
It's so fun! Keep Reading >>>
Well, I think this is the last 'doodley' class for a while, and to be honest, it really isn't all THAT doodley. But, I really like it, and I can't WAIT to teach it. :) Keep Reading >>>
thought I would post my July project :) I have decided to make the project easier, and then work more on doodling in the class :) Keep Reading >>>
So, one of my girls found these super cute giant clothespins on another website, and I decided to try my hand at one. I really like the way it turned out. Even if I am not a fan of Junkitz Rub Ons... they just don't glide like the Gin-X ones do.... seriously Gin-X Rub-ons are like butter... so smooth... whatever they did to those things, they did it right! I love Gin-X, and will only be using them from NOW on! Down with all the other rub-ons! Who's with me? Keep Reading >>>
Okay, so remember those old black and white composition books you used to write in when you were in school? I have always loved them, and I saw the coolest thing the other day...so I decided that I HAD to copy it! I headed on over to the Dollar Tree and I picked up a couple of these books. I LOVE this one! I think it turned out really swell. :) I am so in love with that Scenic Route paper that it was easy to make it look super cool, though... and I think this is the first time I have really used distress inks all over something, and let me tell you... I will definitely be doing that again... Keep Reading >>>
I am finally scrapbooking again! and it feels soooo good hehe! I finally sat down and did a page... I owe it all to Ali Edwards. She said "Don't scrap chronologically" in this month's Creating Keepsakes, so I decided to listen! Huh, to think... all I had to do was listen to a scrapbooking legend to make great pages! I really do love this photo of my daughter, and I am so glad that I scrapped it. Thanks so much Ali! Keep Reading >>>
