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How to Make Furniture Match without buying a Set

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Lucy

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 like my furniture to look like it belongs in the same room. Second when it comes to buying furniture, I have a hard time shelling out the money for every piece. When we bought our bed, we only bought the bed. We didn’t buy the

Fruit of the Spirit Sign

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Jamie H

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 you what she did with one of the drawer fronts. She turned it into this beautiful piece of art– a Fruit of the Spirit Sign. My sister is so much more artistic than I am, and she free-handed this whole thing. The Fruit of the

Night Stand Re-Do

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Lucy

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 a night stand and of course, we wanted two. And I just couldn’t imagine shelling out $600 dollars for nightstands. So when we moved into our new house, we begin looking for nightstands at yard sales, thrift stores, etc and then this one piece

Time Telling Clock

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Jamie H

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, there were some school classrooms that had clocks somewhat similar to this EasyRead Time Teacher Children’s Wall Clock, but I’m way too cheap to buy such a thing. So I decided to make my own, and the time telling clock was envisioned. I knew that

Verse of the Week Chalkboard 2

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Jamie H

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 memorization as a priority, we can better learn about God. In fact, I think scripture memorization is so vital, that it’s part of our homeschooling goals for Miss Magoo and Little Man. I attempted to make a Verse of the Week Chalkboard a while back,

DIY Cheap Advent Calendar

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Jamie H

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! Now that Miss Magoo is nearly 4- not even a week until her birthday!- I thought it would be fun to start this tradition at our house. I looked into buying an advent calendar, like the ones that are wooden and have drawers that you

Fleece Earflap Hat

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Jamie H

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 finally had to hide the hat from him, since it was a little too girly for him! It’s a little bit big for Baby Girl, but it’s still pretty cute. Unfortunately, when I went to write this post and share this awesome pattern with you,

15 Minute Cork Board Makeover

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Jamie H

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 just been too busy and unmotivated lately. So, since I needed something fast, I decided to do a cork board makeover. This cork board makeover took me 15 minutes- and that’s with me stopping to take pictures, so it’s easily doable in 10 minutes. What

Oatmeal and Coffee Can Drums

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Lucy

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 of an ear ache. She only made it about an hour after school before she was sound asleep on the couch. I took her to the doctor today and she has an ear infection and strep throat. Poor kid! She doesn’t look sick does

Box Guitars

Posted on July 26, 2013 by Jamie H

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 up to much, the idea came to me to make these with the kids. I had two small boxes that I cut a rectangular-ish hole in. The kids helped pick out rubber bands and attempted to put them on the boxes, over the hole (I