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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XO Valentines Craft

Cute XO Valentine's Decor Tutorial on Little Light Design Collective.

In our house we are all about love, especially hugs and kisses.  I thought it would only be fitting to make this cute XO Valentine’s craft to incorporate in this years Valentines.  I love using texture and mixing patterns and must say I am thrilled with the way this project turned out! For this project…

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DIY Homework Binders

DIY Homework Binders to get your kids away from the screen and enjoying learning.

Hello, my name is Amanda and I am a Pinterest Addict and my children have become screen addicts! ARGH! Don’t get me wrong I completely understand that our world is growing ever more technology focused and I am so happy that my children are tech savvy, but I find it so annoying that all they…

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Easy Valentine’s Chalkboard Art

Easy Valentine's Chalkboard Art

I love and I mean LOVE this time of year! I love…love.  It makes me so excited to have a time of year set aside for love and admiration.  It brings such joy to my heart.  That and to be honest, I think it’s because I get to use a lot of pink décor in a…

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Easy Chalk Heart Art

Cute Chalk Heart Art Tutorial on Little Light Design Collective

Creating doesn’t have to be expensive. For this project, I was determined not to spend a penny. Sometimes all you need is just a few supplies that you might find lying around. A simple frame+muslin+chalk= Easy Chalk Heart Art! Items needed: a frame, muslin and chalk. I took a frame that I had lying around…

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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

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

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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Birch Wood Ornaments – Easy Diy Christmas Gifts

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Hello, my name is Amanda and I am a Pinterest Addict. I am also a Christmas Addict, but luckily for me those two addictions work quite nicely together. You can find pretty much anything christmas related on pinterest, I swear. I know have so many Christmas projects on my Christmas board. I may need a…

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Festive Thankful Tree – Thanksgiving Activity

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It’s that time of year again…you know what I am talking about.  The time of year when everything seems to pick up pace tenfold and before you know it, the holidays are here in the blink of an eye…literally! This time of year is so much fun getting everything ready for the big day.  I…

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Fun and Easy DIY Chalkboard Wall

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I live in this charming, red brick house in a historic neighborhood. At least that’s how I will pitch it when we go to sell next year. However, living in an older home means living with quirky things that construction workers have done away with in change for more convenient materials. For example, lath and…

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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 Shirts You Can Make With Kids

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Hello, my name is Amanda and I’m a Pinterest Addict. I adore Pinterest. It is full of so many fun, cute and clever ideas. There are so many pins I come across that make me say “Why didn’t I think of that?!?” And then there are some that make me wonder “This is too good to be true”…

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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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