Archive for the ‘Projects’ Category
Judah’s photo book, showing his adventures as a 4 year old, arrived this past weekend. These books are much loved treasures {and some day I will make one for Judah’s first year of life … it’s the only one we’re missing!} In January Liz from My Memories contacted me about using and reviewing their product, [...]
This is currently one of my most favorite things – our cardboard box city. Inspired by an image I saw on Pinterest I decided we would make our own box of whimsical fun. A little hot glue, an X-acto knife, a random assortment of cardboard boxes, one wine bottle, a few plastic lids, toilet paper rolls, some [...]
For Christmas my mom put together two bins of random craft items for the boys; these items (plus the additional items I have since purchased) have provided HOURS of creative play for my boys. In fact, almost every day this year they have spent at least a couple hours each day playing with their craft [...]
This easy Spring craft for kids was inspired when we spotted these cute lollipops at Michael’s Craft Store for .39 cents each. The boys asked if we could buy some for their friends – and given that this month we are focusing on encouraging others I couldn’t very easily say no! So we bought a [...]
A couple of months ago Judah saw a hobby horse for sale at a store (…and as an aside … what is the difference between hobbie horse and hobby horse?!). He has been asking consistently for his own hobby horse and a couple of weeks ago I was inspired to make the boys each their own hobby [...]
Homemade Mod Podge Homemade Mod Podge is easy and cheap to make – but before I share how to do that I need to quickly point out that you might not want to make it yourself. If you are making projects that you want to last a long time or are using special papers in [...]
My boys and I had so much fun making this gift for one of their friends for his recent birthday! I was inspired by the Gifts in a Jar we’d made as Christmas gifts – I just love the randomness of little toys sitting on the top of glass jars! We stopped by Old Navy [...]
