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A Giveaway

Chele is getting ready to make a big move and she’s been having giveaways all month long to celebrate – today she asks what five things you could give up to simplify your life. One of my answers is my scrapbooking things!
A few years ago I attempted to try scrapbooking. I have no idea why [...]

Brain Thread

There are days when my brain goes off on wild tangents. Today was one of those days.
I was listening to the latest Mom’s Money podcast, this week’s show is about teaching kids about money. This is a great topic for me because I want to start giving my kids an allowance and just don’t know [...]

Buying Handmade

I am trying to make a conscious effort to buy (or make!) handmade gifts for the holidays. I suppose there goes the idea of buying my Mom new dishes – maybe she can be the exception! Then again I could always look for someone who makes dishes…
There is a huge craft fair in our area [...]

Halloween Cut Outs

The Halloween crafts, ideas, recipes and costumes are coming out of my ears. Seriously, I’ve never seen this many but then again I’ve never looked around like I have either.
[tag]My Paper Crane[/tag] shared [tag]cat and pumpkin images [/tag]- she made them initially for suckers but others turned them into a sort of banner. We had [...]

Photo Book

So I had this idea – I’m going to go through all the pictures saved of my nephews when they were babies (I’m thinking of the two 8 year olds) and print them out. I probably won’t print all of them but just the ‘good’ ones and I’ll stick them in an album for Christmas. [...]

Island Princess Birthday Party

We went to a Barbie Island Princess birthday party today – it was so cute! I’ve never ordered any set for a birthday party and my neighbor found a pin the crown on the princess game, well it was a stick the crown since it used stickers. They also had a couple of craft kits [...]

Tattoos

I’ve been thinking about tattoos a lot lately. I think this has happened before but I can’t pinpoint when. It started a couple of months ago, and I can’t draw at all so all of my ideas are in my head. I think of the snake my Uncle has, but doesn’t talk about, and the [...]