How to Make Furniture Match, Without Buying a Set – Tips & Tricks to Make Yard Sale, Thrift Store, & Store Bought Furniture look like it goes together. First off, I’m not one of those people that thinks everything has to match perfectly. I don’t want my house to be matchy, matchy. But I do …
Upcycle old cabinet and drawer fronts to make new and fun home decor with this Fruit of the Spirit Sign! I mentioned a while back that my sister got new cabinet fronts, so she gave me an old one and I turned it into our Verse of the Week Chalkboard. Well, I wanted to show …
Night Stand Re-D0 – Instead of buying a $300 nightstand that matched my bed frame, I did this instead! When we bought our bed set, we didn’t buy the matching night stands. We thought maybe we’ll buy them later but we just kept putting it off, mostly because who wants to spend $300 dollars on …
You may remember from my post on Homeschooling Goals that one of our goals this year for Miss Magoo is to learn to tell time. We have flashcards and workbooks that help her learn about telling time, but one thing I really wanted to make was a Time Telling Clock. I remember as a kid, …
The Verse of the Week Chalkboard helps families memorize scripture together! I think that memorizing scripture is such an important aspect of the education we can give our children– and ourselves! In Psalm 119:11, it says, “I have hidden Your word in my heart, that I might not sin against You.” When we set scripture …
When I was little, I remember we did an advent calendar leading up to Christmas. I grew up in a Lutheran church, and advent was a very important season. I always really enjoyed doing the advent calendar, especially because I got a piece of candy every night! What can I say, I love sweets! …
I stumbled upon a super cute fleece earflap hat pattern at the end of last winter. The timing to make it was obviously off, so I decided to make a lilac and purple fleece earflap hat for Baby Girl. In the meantime, Little Man decided he really liked it, so he kept wearing it. I …
Update that drab and boring cork board in just 15 minutes, with this awesome cork board makeover tutorial! Now that we’re homeschooling preschool, I’m finding that I need more organizational skills in my life. I have been hoping to make a cool command center for our kitchen like what I’ve seen on Pinterst, but we’ve …
Our first week of school went not so well, so I was hoping for a much more peaceful second week. It started out well with the day off for Labor Day. We went to see Despicable Me 2 and shopping with my mother-in-law. Tuesday, the kids were much calmer but Kae’s teacher said she complained …
I remember making guitars out of boxes and rubber bands when I was a kid. But I can’t exactly remember if it was rubber bands or string or what, and how exactly we made them. One day in the early stages of this pregnancy, when the kids were being pretty cranky, and I wasn’t feeling …
This post is part of our July Top 5. Check out the rest of the best here. My kids, well my younger three, did this bumblebee garden stake craft at the Preschool Summer Reading Program at our local library and it was so cute that I just had to share it with you. However I …
Note: I blogged this kids’ kitchen from a nightstand project on my personal blog about a year ago, but I wanted to share this project with readers on our blog, so I’m sharing it again! After spending time looking at ideas on Pinterest, and spending more time trying to decide what exactly I wanted …