This is the super easiest and cutest pot of gold you will ever make in your life. It looks so good on the table and you can turn these in to treat jars as well. ...
Crafts
How to Create a Santa Pup Treat Jar
This craft for my Santa Pup Treat Jar is sponsored by BLUE Santa Snacks® and the BlogPaws® Pet Influencer Network™. I am being compensated to help share information about Blue Buffalo Santa Snack, but we only shares information we feel is relevant to our readers Blue Buffalo is not responsible for the content of this article. During the holidays and all throughout the year, I love creating ...
Crafting a DIY Sharpie Mug Brings Out the Coffee and Meaningful Conversations
This craft for a DIY Sharpie Mug is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of The J.M. Smucker Company. The opinions and text are all mine. I’m partnering with Folgers® at Walmart through the Share A Cup & A Story campaign, to celebrate new and old holiday traditions. During the holidays, one of my all time favorite things to do is to have make and take days. I do this with my 19 ...
Personalized Santa Pup Ornaments for Christmas
This craft for Santa Pup Ornaments will make your fur baby go nuts! Y'all I have had so much fun the past couple of weeks making treats for Tucker and his little friends. We've been working hard at making Christmas special for his fur buddies -- so today I am sharing with you a super easy ornament craft that your pup and their friends will love! ...
How to Make a DIY Laundry Sign {Functional and Cute!}
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #FreeOfSulfates #CollectiveBias My daughter is an artist and one of her favorite things to do is for us to craft together. I don't have a crafty bone in my body, or so I thought, but then I came up with this adorable and functional DIY Laundry Sign that anyone can make – ...
How to Create a Fresh Flower Arrangement Perfect for Mother’s Day
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #HallmarkforMom #CollectiveBias As I write this, my mother-in-law has been staying in the nursing home. She fell and broke her dominate arm and could not walk very well, so to get her strong again, she has had to stay there for about 2 months -- which means she is going to be in there on ...
How to Make Cinnamon Dough Ornaments
The holidays are always so much fun around our home. Kayla, now that she is older, finds all kinds of creative ideas to do together-- like making cinnamon dough ornaments. ...
How to Create a Beautiful Stocking Holder for the Holidays
Today I want to show you how to make a really beautiful stocking holder made from a few items that I picked up from my local home improvement store. ...
Learning How to Use a Bible Journaling Kit (plus a giveaway)
I have been wanting to dive into bible journaling for a while now, but you know how it is when you have a Bible that you love dearly, and are really not sure if you want to get another Bible and use it. Honestly -- that is what has been holding me back from journaling, but I recently found out that by using this adorable Bible Journaling Kit, I can use my regular Bible or another Bible to ...
Create a Winter Snowman Scene from a 2-Liter Coca-Cola Bottle
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and The Coca-Cola Company. All opinions are mine alone. #LayerOnLove #CollectiveBias I love upcycling during the holidays. I take old jars and turn them into food gifts. I take baskets I got during the year and build cute pamper me sets for my friends. But my latest upcycle project -- a winter snowman scene that I made using an empty ...
How to Make Easy Football Tailgate Party Favors
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser, MARS. All opinions are mine alone. #ScoreAtCVS #CollectiveBias Whenever we are celebrating game days at our house, I always like to give fun treat jars full of goodies for my friends and family. I recently created these easy football tailgate party favors that will have your eager game day visitors leaving happy. ...
Kayla and Her Beautiful Watercolor Paintings
Kayla has been creating art since she was old enough to walk. When she was 3, she created her first drawing on the bottom of our coffee table (which we still have) and laugh about today. It's one of the most precious drawings that we have. I knew then that she had something special inside of her that God was going to use one day. Now, she has moved into painting with watercolors and I am beyond ...
DIY Wooden Snowman That’s Perfect for the Holidays
My daughter has to be one of the craftiest people I know. She made this gorgeous DIY Wooden Snowman so I am sharing with you exactly how she did it. ...
How to Make Light Bulb Christmas Ornaments
In our home, nothing gets thrown out. We are always looking for ways to upcycle and recycle things to help the environment, so when we started changing out our lightbulbs from the old style to the new energy saving style, we had tons of them lying around. It was then that my daughter discovered this idea on Pinterest, and our light bulb Christmas ornaments were born. ...
Spooky Spider Displays in 5 Minutes or Less
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #SnackAndGo #CollectiveBias When it comes to Halloween, nothing says spooky to me like spiders! Of course, our daughter hates them with a passion, and will scream if any of them come near her. Me, I like to look at them and check out their fuzzy legs (as long as there is a glass in between ...
How to Create Your Own Minion Cozie for Your Limited Edition Mott’s Apple Juice
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. Minions © 2015 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved. Mott’s is a registered trademark of Mott’s LLP. #MottsAndMinions #CollectiveBias One of my favorite things to do is to crochet. It somehow helps me relax and I love making new creations that I wouldn't normally make. Recently, I made a ...
How to Make Homemade Christmas Ornaments Using Everyday Items
“The Crayola product, gift card, information, and additional gift pack have been provided by Crayola.” Over the course of the last couple of days, I have been trying to spend some quality time with my daughter. Usually that means that a lot of crafting takes place. She is my crafty child, so when she wants to create something, we pull out the markers, glitter glue, and get to work. This time -- ...
How to Make a Crochet Slouch Hat
My daughter loves to crochet. During the winter months when there is not a lot to do, you will find the both of us on the sofa making gifts for people and items for ourselves. Her latest creation is a slouch hat. Here is how to make a crochet slouch hat. ...
How to Create a Spring Word Pot
I love going to my friend Michelle's house. We have a once a month lunch date where we get together and make something that we have found on Pinterest. We don't use instructions, we just kind of look at the picture and just go with it. We found a really cool Valentine pot that we decided to turn into a Spring Word Pot. ...
How to Crochet a Baby Blanket
Back in 2010, I had a "learn how to crochet" party with some pretty cool teenagers. In fact, they brought over all their yarn and taught my daughter and me how to do a simple crochet stitch. It wasn't long after that party that I wanted to learn harder stitches, or something other than the normal single stitch. I started browsing you tube and found an awesome woman called The Knit Witch who ...
How to Create Letter Art
Kayla saw a great idea when we were at Hobby Lobby with our friend Michele the last time we went shopping. You basically take pictures of letters and then put them together online using a photo editing program. How to create letter art is a simple project that can be done at home with a very small budget. She and I went walking one day in the park and she found all kinds of letters and ...
Create a DIY Splatter Pumpkin
Last week when Kayla and I took the day off to hang out with each other and have some special mother daughter time, we decided to paint our pumpkin. While painting it, we decided to do something that I had recently seen on Pinterest -- how to create a DIY splatter pumpkin with crayons. ...
How to Build a Birdhouse from Scratch
I know I haven't posted anything about school in a while, simply because during the Winter, our family does a lot of hibernating. However, Kayla and her dad have been busy learning how to build a birdhouse. ...