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We’re re-thinking the macaroni Necklace this Mothers Day and coming up with few modern versions! Miss M and I had a lot of fun playing with pasta and we love our necklaces. In fact I love my necklace so much that I wish it was more durable than manicotti pasta noodles! I have a few other necklace …
I’ve been working on catching up from our Disneyland trip (will share more on that soon! including what we recommend doing when you go with your family!). I thought I’d share a few scenes from the Banister House (our newly purchased historic home) such as this great one of Miss M dancing away on Easter …
We have a couple of spring birthdays in the house. In fact my oldest has a birthday exactly a week before mine so spring always means fun, flowers, balloons and cake! I can’t believe Mr. A has turned 9?! (I however am totally still the same age ;)). He wanted to meet up with friends at a …
We surprised the kids with tickets to Disneyland on Easter Sunday. We hid them under their plates at brunch. I had made Mickey Mouse necklaces (from my Playful wooden doll face necklace DIY) and given them to each child. We asked them why the Easter bunny would bring these to them and they just shrugged. So …
We’ve been having fun playing with PLAYFUL at our house as of late. You might notice that I love to use holidays and celebrations as great ways to encourage creativity with kids. So why not make a Playful themed Easter basket this year!? Start by filling the baskets with little DIY goodies from the book, such as …
My boys are getting older and therefore getting more opinionated about what they will and will not wear/do/etc. Anything cutesy is pretty much off the table. Bunny ear headbands are in the banned group. Solution? Put a bandit mask on the bunny ears and suddenly it’s no longer cutesy but cool! And I get to …
To get my kids to more excited about doing their homework I put a set of freshly sharpened pencils into one of our Pencil Head Holders from my book Playful: Fun Projects to Make with and For Kids. It totally works! They pick their favorite pencil and get down to business! You can also store your kids …
My little O said the silliest thing to me the other day after I asked him to finish his food. He responded with “Mom, I can’t eat anymore right now. I have to wait until the food in my stomach finishes downloading.” Ha! What a little goof. Silliest kid I know.
If you’ve been following me on instagram you’ll know that at the beginning of the year we purchased a historic home we lovingly call The Banister House (after it’s standout banister-photos of which I’ll show at a later time). It’s been a long time coming for us as we’ve been housesitting for in-laws for the past year and …
Spring is just around the corner and we can feel it in the air! So we’re celebrating by getting our DIY stamp making on and creating and playing with a new set of floral stamps – made just for the occasion! (and you can me over on Studio 5 presenting these stamps today too at 11:00). I pulled …