Category Archives: DIY Project / Crafts

Guest Blogger : Jenny Thrasher of Mouse Tales Travel – DIY Pressed Pennies Containers

I am so excited to share with my readers this adorable project by my friend Jenny Thrasher of Mouse Tales Travel.  I love reusing containers in a new way. And she did exactly that!!! Jenny Thrasher is a wife and mom to 3 beautiful children.  She enjoys crafty things, fancy things, sparkly things and all…

Fun classes for your kidlets this summer

This summer my kidlets have enjoyed taking Wilton Cake Decorating Classes from Jo-Ann’s Crafts. Their 1st class was on a round cake- butter cream. Making and learning how to do a cupcake on the top of their cakes and decorations. They had a wonderful time. And they were SOO PROUD!! 2nd class- my kidlets took…

More great summer projects to try out with your kids.

We are totally taking advantage and topping by quite a few times this week to Jo-Ann’s Fabrics and Crafts store. This week they have 50% and 40% off coupons on their Iphone app. I decided that this will be the summer my daughter and son (If he is not too busy with scouting/camping) To try…

Night Light / Stain Glass Look Kids Project

Being room mom again this year has been so much fun. We were having our end of the year party. I needed a few crafts for the party. We were having a Pizza & Pajama Party. We played a few fun games and did 2 crafts.  This was my favorite craft. My girlfriend a while…

DIY Tree House / Club House

My hubby has been building like a crazy man!! We are sooo grateful too!! We needed a place for the kids to play. Our old swing set at our other home was falling apart. However the slide, climber and handle bars were still very good condition. So we removed them and used them on our…

Building our Chicken Coop

  I wish I could tell you EXACTLY how we did this. We didn’t  use a plan. It was just built by eyeballing how big we wanted it. We had an idea of how it would work. We read so many chicken forums and websites. All the favorites and dislikes of their coops. Then knew…

Class Gift – Teacher Appreciation

This was a very easy gift to make. We collected money from parents to purchase a gift card to the teachers favorite restaurant. 🙂 Green bucket came from the 1.00 section of Target Floral Foam Kraft Paper Shreds from Dollar Tree Wood Skewers Favorite Gift Card Flowers were cut out on the silhouette. Green Gift…

Make your own Orange Peel Cleaner

Orange Peel Cleaner is great. 🙂 I just started making some. You save up all your orange peels. We eat so many we can fill it up quickly. If you need to save them up- freeze them till you need the peels. Once you can fill a jar up with peels then pour in enough…

Homade Fabric Softener

Another homemade item I worked on this week is homemade fabric softener. Very simple to make. We learned about this too at our church Relief Society night. What a huge savings for this. I doubled the recipe to use 2 bottles of conditioner you need to use. Then filled up a gallon milk jug. Better…

Homemade Laudry Detergent

My Relief Society sisters at church taught us how to do homemade laundry detergent (plus other things I will share later). I was skeptical. We were able to take some home. I used it and loved it. Cleaned so well. It cost me only about 5.00 to make 5 gallons worth of laundry soap.  That…

April 2012 LDS General Conference- Kids Party

I am behind posting this. However we did conference with our kids along with another family. So really in total we just had 4. Ranging in ages 3-12.  We haven’t ever really had our kiddos watch conference and we want to change that. So we decided to have a conference party. That got the younger…

Easter Peeps on a stick- Great edible centerpiece

I am still catching up on my blog. I have so many things to post. Since we have moved we have been working on alot of projects 🙂 I apologize. I will catch up one day I know 🙂 I had purchased some cute Easter Bunny Peeps and wanted to use them as a center…

Earth Day – April 22nd

Earth Day is coming up April 22nd 🙂   I love this holiday just as well. I feel like lately we have been working on Earth friendly things around our home. Starting a compost pile , chicken coop and raising for our own eggs, being more aware of recycling etc. We will be starting our garden…

Easter Carrot gift – great for kids

These carrots I put on the kids table were so easy. I found the triangle bags 25 of them for 1.99 at Hobby Lobby Got a huge bucket of cheese balls at target for 4.99 (I was able to make 25 carrots and have a few cheese balls left) Green curling ribbon I also used…

Paper Plate Baskets with Paper Tape aka Washi Tape

These cute paper plate baskets were so much fun!  Extremely easy. I got the idea from – Sarah Hearts   Check out her site. Because she has a WONDERFUL video. You don’t want to miss that video it explained exactly the HOW TO MAKE this basket. All I used for this I got at Target Paper…

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 »