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Happy Valentines Day friends! How is your day going so far? Jon spelled out J+M in a heart for me with chalk on the driveway which started the day out just right. I’ve been stuffing my face with chocolates, decadent cookies and Cinnabun pancakes all week thanks to a wonderful Valentines exchange that I was …
I love my mother. She is an infinite well of creative, clever and slightly outrageous ideas. And Valentines Day is her time to shine. You wouldn’t believe the things she has done for my dad – we’re talking pouring bright red tempera paint on freshly fallen Colorado snow to spell out “I LOVE YOU!” for …
I had recently purchased a 1 1/4″ button maker to make little buttons to sell in the shop and had been having some fun with it when I thought, “hey, we could make monogram buttons for all the kids in Little A’s Kindergarten class this year for Valentines!”. And well…that is just what we …
Alison of the Alison Show, and The Little Tiny, is sharing the love this Valentines by hosting a round up of Valentines crafts just in time to get us ready to celebrate the holiday of L-O-V-E. She invited me to take part of the festivities and we came up with this fun little twist on …
A couple of years ago Jon and I had family in town for New Years and we decided to make our own hats to celebrate the festivities (one year we even stuck a sparkler out of the top of Jon’s hat and lit it for the count down into the new year!). We had loads …
We’re enjoying a White Christmas here in the frigid lands of Colorado visiting family and dear friends. The boys are happy as can be playing with their new treasures and enjoying precious time with cousins. Being with extended family, although at times happily hectic, is one of the most prized gifts for me this time …
I thought it would be fun to personalize our gift tags this year. I knew the boys would be thrilled to run to their presents to see their own faces on the packages. I was just going to go with good old fashioned photos when I thought, “hey, why not spice things up a bit?”. …
We like to do handmade Christmas cards for the teachers, etc. during the season and apparently we’ve hit on a tree theme that we just can’t shake. This year we had a lot of fun “finger painting”…but not in typical sense of the craft. I made a simple tree graphic and printed it out on …
In addition to our Random Acts of Advent calendar, I wanted to introduce a new advent idea for this Christmas season. I love and adore children’s picture books and, being an illustrator myself, have quite a collection of them. As of last year, I decided that I wanted to collect enough children’s Christmas picture books …
Thanksgiving is just a couple days away, can you even believe it?! We have been put in charge of bringing pies and I’ll be making my favorite simple, yet super delicious, apple pie. Jon is going to experiment with a caramel pumpkin pie of sorts. Yuumm, I’m getting hungry just thinking about it. Can’t wait! …