Category Archives: DIY Project / Crafts

Teacher Appreciation Week is almost here!

  Don’t forget teacher appreciation week is NEXT WEEK!! May 2nd – May 6th 2016 We have LOTS and LOTS OF IDEAS!! CLICK HERE for all our many teacher appreciation ideas!! If you can read this post THANK A TEACHER!!

Taylor Swift Birthday Party (including her cats Meredith Grey & Olivia Benson)

Taylor Swift Birthday Party (including her cats Meredith Grey & Olivia Benson) | NothingButCountry.com

My daughter had a somewhat interesting request for her birthday theme this year. She loves Taylor Swift but about as equally she loves her 2 cats. (SHE LOVES CATS!!)  Her cats are scottish fold and she named them Meredith Grey and Olivia Benson. My daughter just LOVES THAT!!  She wanted to incorporate the two together….

Back To School Teacher Gifts – Cookies in a pencil box

Back To School Teacher Gifts - Cookies in a pencil box

My daughter took these to her teachers this week as a welcome back gift. Decided to bake up some sugar cookies and added them to a pencil box 🙂 I used my silhouette machine to cut out vinyl to add to the outside of the pencil boxes that I picked up at my local store…

eMOOgency Awareness – Relief Society Night

eMOOgency Awareness - Relief Society Night

We had a fun Relief Society Night. Cow themed and mini classes on emergency preparedness and awareness. It was a fun night! Tables were set with fresh bread that was later one of our mini classes on making your own bread.  YUMMMYYY Found the checkered plates and napkins at walmart recently on clearance!!  Seriously .40…

Baby Shower Gifts and Custom Bags

Baby Shower Gifts and Custom Bags

I love to embroider anything that doesn’t move!!  When I was invited to one of my girlfriend’s baby shower for her new little ones– I had to add their names to these adorable bear towels. 🙂  CUTE CUTE!!!  Easy gift but personalized makes it extra special. If you haven’t realized from my blog already I…

Cow Appreciation Day – July 14, 2015

Cow Appreciation Day - July 14, 2015

Did you know every year Chick-Fil-A has a cow appreciation day?  This is the one day my family goes out, dresses up and enjoys a yummy meal at Chick-Fil-A. It is awesome. We go around 1130am to beat the lunch rush because it is such a popular day. We get a yummy free meal.  We…

Emoji Sugar Cookies

Emoji Sugar Cookies

I am SOOO addicted to emojis on my iphone . I use them ALLL THE TIME. Even in my blogging I have emoticons in them 🙂 I was hosting a party at my home. No real theme per say but all my girlfriends love to text and social media and I knew these cookies would…

Father’s Day – You Caramel Lot About Us

Father's Day - You Caramel Lot About Us

My husband LOVE Caramel!!!  SERIOUSLY LOVES IT!!! We hit the stores and found everything in Caramel. WE did a play on words using the foods- WE CHEWS RIESENS THAT PROVE YOU CARAMEL LOT ABOUT US. I then had the kidlets tell me all the things that dad does for them that proves he loves our…

Forget Not – Relief Society Night

Forget Not - Relief Society Night

This was another fun Relief Society Night. Forget Not. We had 3 classes that would feed us – SPIRITUALLY, PHYSICALLY & EMOTIONALLY Frames that we got at the Dollar Tree and printed off a scripture / quote to go inside them. I enjoy chalk art- my husband made me some time ago large chalk boards…

Father’s Day Gift – Hammers

Father's Day Gift - Hammers

We had alot of fun making these hammers for many special dad’s this coming Father’s day! If you own a silhouette you can do this too. We simply used Vinyl and got a really fabulous hammer from your local building supply store. We customized each hammer as our friends requested. I thought I would share…

Stay Cool This Summer – End of year gift

Stay Cool This Summer - End of year gift

Love pinterest. I saw this idea multiple times from various blogs and wanted to do the same!! This box of 100 pop-ice was only $3.77 at my local Walmart. Makes for a very cheap gift for over 20+ students. I am room mom for my daughters class and their end of the year party is…

FLORIDA GATOR THEME DOOR- Teacher Appreciation

FLORIDA GATOR THEME DOOR- Teacher Appreciation

    I am one of the Room Moms for my daughters school.  Friday Me and another room mom (I am blessed this year there is more than 1 of us!! LOVE THAT)  We got a head start and worked on the door for our wonderful teacher. She obviously is a Gator Fan and SO…

Teacher Chalkboard & Dry Erase Board Easel – Teacher Appreciation Week

Teacher Chalkboard & Dry Erase Board Easel - Teacher Appreciation Week

Found these cutest Chalkboard / Dry Erase Board Easel in the Dollar Spot of Target. They are priced at $3.00 but they were still an awesome price and very cute. I knew with a little vinyl I could make them look even more fun for a teacher. I added a quote and her name on…

Starbucks Gift – Thanks-A-Latte – (take 3)- Teacher Appreciation

Starbucks Gift - Thanks-A-Latte - (take 3)- Teacher Appreciation

I have used this quote a few times over the years– CLICK HERE TO SEE THE OTHER THANKS A LATTE GIFTS This year I have taken the reusable cup that Starbucks sells for 1.00 and used my trusty Silhouette Machine. Cut out with Forest Green Vinyl and added just the ring around the outside of…

Star Wars – May the 4th Be With You – Gift – Teacher Appreciation

Star Wars - May the 4th Be With You - Gift - Teacher Appreciation

This year Teacher Appreciation falls on May the 4th. We love Star Wars in this house and so I felt it would be fun to make a gift to go along with the day 🙂 I got this red tub from Dollar Tree. I used silver and black vinyl with my awesome Silhouette Machine. I…

Both deaf since the age of 3, Chad and Mary Beth enjoy not only raising their little family but photographing together, cooking & crafting as well. Living in Central Florida with their ... Read More About Us »