My birthday is just around the corner and although birthday’s seem to lose their spark as I get older, I still want to try to do something special – however small it is – on that day. And what’s a better excuse than a birthday to bake a cake!? Even though the girls are sick […]
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Painting Terracotta Pots
I think it is safe to say that I am officially a hoarder of houseplants; let’s call it my houseplant collection – yeah, that sounds better. If I were to count how many houseplants I have, I would come to a total of 20. If I were to count the ones still living out of […]
Flaunt Your Kleenex with Style
It is that commonly known time of the year when runny noses are a part of day-to-day life and coughs are becoming all too familiar. When little children are running around with faucet noses, it’s vital to have tissues close by to wipe noses – and their by-products – quickly, am I right!? However, standard […]
Shelves, Please!
I’ve been on an organizing frenzy lately, which I cannot blame on pregnancy hormones this time around. Storage and organization can be challenging when living in a 700 square-foot home. My usual remedy to an organizing kick is to clean out our three closets and kitchen cabinets, but less things have been turning up in […]
Small Change, Big Impact
Our home is no stranger to Bible verses; there are a few framed in our living room and in the children’s shared room. Our refrigerator even sported small handwritten verses haphazardly placed, which weren’t the best looking and were hard to read. Since our refrigerator can be seen from almost any angle in our living […]
Love is Binary
My husband and I tend to keep Valentine’s day low-key, which I personally prefer to a crowded restaurant – I’ve come to appreciate the simplicity and stillness of nights spent in. To carry out that motif of simplicity, I threw together this printable of the word “love” in binary for my computer proficient husband. I […]
DIY Clay Bead Necklace
I’m always keeping an eye out for simple accessories to add color to my wardrobe so I knew I found something great once I came across this necklace. The price wasn’t exactly speaking to my frugal wallet, therefore I made one using air dry clay that I had leftover from December’s Whimseybox. To make your […]
DIY Colorful Jenga Blocks
I think Jenga ought to be called a classic game, don’t you? However, if we’re going to start calling a game from the 80’s classic, we might as well start calling waterbeds and jams classic too. Or maybe not – it’s debatable. For a “classic” game like Jenga, you could find yourself spending as much […]
Favorite Projects from 2013
New Years Eve just kind of sneaked up on me which is an ironic representation of this past year. However no matter how fast or crazy or worrisome it may have been at times, God has been faithful and there has been many more times that we laughed, danced, and played. So to end the […]
Custom Portrait Gift Tags
For the record, I use the term “portrait” loosely. I really don’t think these little sketches can be officially called portraits. Regardless, aren’t these little face sketches a fun way to label gifts? I thought it was a nice change of pace to labeling gifts by name. It was as easy as it looks – […]