Holidays

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas!  Our Christmas was fabulous, and as an accidental annual tradition that started 4 years ago, here’s our 2013 family Christmas ornament.  We…

Chloe just had her 3rd birthday and I’m really happy with how her invites turned out.  I was inspired by the evites this mom sent for her daughter’s party, but…

For our toddlers, heaven is glueing things to paper & things like paper plates.  As a Christmas gift, I made them craft kits from generic items available at any craft…

Chloe just had her Minnie Mouse themed 3rd birthday party and I wanted to share how I made ears for the event.  What better party toy & favor than Mickey…

Our first Christmas as 3, I was soooooo excited about our early Christmas present, Miss Chloe.  While pregnant and supposedly on bed rest, I had the perfect opportunity to make…

We started with our Elf a little early this year when the opportunity presented itself.  This is our first year with an Elf and our girls (almost 3 & almost…

We’ve put a ton of thought into our gifts this year.  We don’t want to create monsters, but we do want to have our home in full holiday spirit.  We…

I realize that we are starting this super early, but it’s our first year to do Elf on the Shelf and this is the sort of thing that my bunch…

It’s that season when we empty our bank accounts to make the gift season special – but we don’t have to!  There are so many ways that you can quickly…

Getting inspired with the Blurb Gift Center If you know me, you know that I’m a little photo obsessed.  I’m hard at work on some photo books right now and…

Happy Halloween! Thing 1 & Thing 2 had their first “real” Jack-O-Lantern carving experience this year.  Although we did some the last couple of years, this is the first time…

I’ve tried my hand at chalk board DIY typography again, this time inspired by a friend’s fabulous chalkboard art that was instantly destroyed by her kiddos and Chloe’s thoughts on…

A shop over on Etsy has the cutest Santa Sacks that I’ve been wanting ever since seeing them a year or so ago.  I’m not getting anything by telling you…

I’ve never been one for store-bought costumes.  I wasn’t raised that way.  My mother (somehow) made all of our costumes herself – even when we had to be Rainbow Brite…