Delicious Recipes to Keep my Family of Four Happy and Full
I have never really been on to decorate for St. Patrick’s Day. Sure, I wear green and make sure to dress the kiddos in green too. The house, however, typically gets neglected. This year, I at least threw together a wreath {on the cheap no less} so the house could feel “Lucky” this year too.
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Yep, more Valentine’s Decorating! This one was a quick craft I did with H. She had seen some of my glittery scrapbook paper in the craft stuff I was moving around and wanted to do something with it.
I had pinned this framed glitter heart awhile back and thought it might be a good starting point for our paper.
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No, this isn’t a post about Gossip Girl. Although, I will admit that I do love the show despite how much it is targeted it at teenagers. I guess I’m still a 15 year old at heart…just ask my iPod. I’m getting off track though.
I’ve {slowly} started decorating for Valentine’s day. My first craft: XOXO.
I picked up a ceramic XOXO at Michaels during a recent sale. I also grabbed a few different types of pink paint inlcuding pearl and glitter.
I painted the entire thing in the satin paint. Then, I put the glitter and pearl paints on the hearts.
A quick and easy project to start getting ready for Valentine’s Day!
Have you started getting ready? Done any cute decorating? I’d love to see them so link them up below!
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Remember Mathlete and his planning bug? Well, we are moving right along with those plans! Over the holiday break, Mathlete went over and picked up our building permit.
Yep, sorry neighbors…we are those people with the bright orange poster in the window.
While he has dreams of lumber and electrical wiring, I have my little mind churning on what will go in the rooms once they are all built. Want to see a few?
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We’ve been incredibly busy putting our house back together after Christmas! I always like to try and start the new year with everything organized and in its proper home. That has meant a ton of trips to Target and other stores for some supplies.
We’ve also been working on our Master Bedroom (finally!) so I thought I would share with you the semi-official plan for the space.
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| [West Elm], [Benjamin Moore], [Pottery Barn], [Etsy], [Joann] |
We finally picked a bed and chose the Valencia Sleigh Bed and matching bedside tables. We’re going to paint the rooms Hale Navy by Benjamin Moore so we wanted to keep the bedding light and airy. The pintucked bedding from West Elm really fits the bill for that. Our drapes will be made from the P Kaufman Linked fabric. Add some throw pillows and we’re pretty much done. All we need are some lamps and those are still in the selection process.
So, where are we with this plan?
The bed is in and set up in our room. We’ll pick up the bedside tables this week because they finally made it into the store.
I’ve had the bedding for awhile but am keeping it in the closet until all the painting it done.
As for painting…the sample is painted on the wall and we are aiming for actually doing some painting this coming weekend! YAY!
Anyone have any lamp suggestions? I’d love to see them.
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Yep, you read that right. I made a Christmas wreath…without yarn. Not even a single strand of yarn! Shocker, I know.
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Hi my dear readers! Guess what?! I’m not here today! In reality, I am out getting my shop on with my wonderful mother. In the virtual world though, I am over at
sharing my Christmas decorations made out of Styrofoam trees. Sure, it is the day after Christmas but that is the perfect time to start making your plans for next year and save some serious coin on the supplies to make all those crafts. So, click on over to Ginger Snap Crafts and read up on 4 ways to transform Styrofoam trees.
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One of my favorite things this time of year is getting the mail. Why? Christmas cards! We are so fortunate to have friends and family who take the time to send us a card each year. So, of course, we want to display them! This year, I decided to make a Christmas Card holder.
The supplies:
First up, paint the unfinished backless wood frame.
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H loves snowglobes! It doesn’t really matter what it inside, she just loves to turn them upside down and watch the snow fall. So, I thought it would be fun to make a snowglobe {of sorts} with her. Ours would be waterless though!
Off to the store we went for our supplies. We picked up a large jar, a snowman ornament and some fake snow.
First, we used some hot glue to secure the snowman to the lid of the jar.
Then, we put our snow into the glass portion of the jar.
We actually ended up taking the snow back out and make it smaller because we felt like it was way too big for the size of our jar.
Now, screw the lid on the jar
And flip it over. Instant {waterless} snow globe.
H has so much fun turning him back and forth to watch the snow fall. Now, if only we could get {a little} snow of our own…
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I was running errands and prepping for our annual Christmas party, when I pulled into the driveway and noticed my large lanterns on the front porch were empty. Uh-oh!
I ran into the house and raided my supplies to find something I could quickly put together to fill the lanterns. Thankfully, I had been to Ikea recently and picked up two large red candles
Since it is Christmas, I also had a bunch of peppermint sticks. So, I decided the easiest thing would be to put them around the candle. Not wanting the hot glue to melt the candle, I first pinned a strip of red ribbon around the middle of the candle.
I unwrapped all of my little peppermint sticks.
Then, I hot glued them onto the ribbon around the candle.
I grabbed some extra ribbon and little mini ornaments to complete the project.
I simply tied the ribbon around the middle of the candle and covered the bottom of the lantern with the ornaments.
A quick 10 minute project squeezed in before the big party so that our front porch wasn’t bare! Just make sure, if you do something like this, your project is protected from the rain/snow so your sticks don’t wither away.
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