Cute Birdhouse Town – DIY

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There is nothing I love better than spending time with my boys and creating a little something fun for the holidays. To start with, I must say that I had a completely different picture in my head of how this project would go, but couldn’t be any happier with the way it turned out.  For a while my…

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5 Crochet Projects On My To-Do List & Yarn Giveaway

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5 Crochet Projects On My To-Do List: I have been working on a few crochet projects and in searching pinterest for a few techniques or patterns I have come up with a whole list of fun projects I wanted to make.  I figured it would be fun to share (and I would love to see…

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Cute and Easy Valentine’s Frame Art

Cute Valentine's Day Decoration

I’ve had this gorgeous hot pink picture frame that I bought a long time ago and have always wanted to use it, but in a house full of boys I just couldn’t find the right place until now. This year for my Valentines decorations I wanted all pink and red. So I pulled out pinky,…

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Easy and Cute DIY Chalkboard

Easy and cute DIY chalkboard and easel from Little Light Design Collective

  Even with being the less than creative person I am, I have been pulled to chalkboard paint like a magnet.  I mean whoever decided to make chalkboard paint is completely genius and  I bow down to their creativeness.  When DecoArts offered to send me some clear chalkboard coating, I was over the moon happy…

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Easy New Year’s Gallery Wall

Simple and cute New Year's gallery wall tutorial

After my last Christmas post and making almost all my decorations, I decided to keep it simple this time. This easy New Year’s gallery wall is a quick and fast way to jazz up and bling out your place to ring in the New Year! Welcome 2015!!! Here’s how I did it. I gathered some…

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Earthy Outdoor Christmas Tree – Part 2

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Here are more tutorials to help you complete your Earthy Outdoor Christmas Tree!  See Part 1 for other tutorials. Step 5: Adding the eye candy.  I like to save all my bigger pieces to add at the end.  That way I can fill in the gaps and layer accordingly. Have you ever come across something…

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Earthy Outdoor Christmas Tree – Part 1

Beautiful earthy outdoor themed Christmas tree with multiple tutorials - Little Light Design Collective

Here’s a little fact about me…right now we are in between houses.  Wait what?  Yes, we sold our house and haven’t found the right one yet so we are currently living with my ever so gracious father-in-law.  Everything we have is in storage for the time being so this year I wanted to come up…

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Simple Halloween Banner & Cute Accent Spiders

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I am absolutely in love with this time of year.  The crisp colors of crimson red, electric yellow and burnt orange as I look out the window at the big maple in the front yard.  The football games and cool nights where you need a blanket to snuggle! I love that it gets dark earlier…

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Halloween Mason Jar Lanterns

Halloween Mason Jar Lanterns - easy peasy Halloween decor

Can you believe we’re almost halfway through October? If this month snuck up on you, like it did me, you’re probably in need of a quick Halloween home makeover. I tried out a Halloween version of these Patriotic Mason Jar Lanterns I found over at Addicted 2 DIY and loved them so much I did…

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DIY Ghost Tassels – Halloween Decor

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“Our kids will never experience Holiday decorations,” my husband said to me while at Target the other week. Yes, even my husband knows that I was born without a creative bone in my body. When it comes to Holidays or entertaining I can plan, organize, dress the part, and prepare ALL the food down to…

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Easy DIY Card Holder For Kids

DIY Card Holder

I love to play card games.  In fact, love may be a gross understatement.  I think the best free fun you can have with a group of any size is to play a card or board game.  When I get together with all of my Idaho cousins we all sit around my aunts kitchen table…

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Upcycle and Recycle Your Easter

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Spring has taken forever to arrive this year. Thankfully Easter is just around the corner! Hooray!!! It’s possible that Easter just might be my new favourite Holiday. Step aside skulls and pumpkins and frosty window pains, and make way for flowers and eggs and pastels!!! As I touched on in my earlier post, I’m not…

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Make a Hair Clip Garland in 3 Easy Steps

DIY Hair Clip Garland

I love Pinterest as much as the next gal, but I rarely have the time or energy to do anything I see there.  That’s why I love this hair clip garland – it’s super easy, and it only takes about 10 minutes to throw together. Bonus: you now have a place to store all of those…

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Valentine’s Day Heart String Art

Valentine's Day Heart String Art

So, with Valentine’s day just around the corner, I know there are about twelve-billion DIY craft ideas careening your way, so I won’t try and convince you that this is THE ONE, THE ONLY Valentine craft for you. But if you want to do something fast, frugal, flexible (easy to tailor to any age or…

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