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My Dollar Store Bulletin Board

Heather over at Dollar Store Crafts posts awesome crafts that are created by things from the dollar store. Other then being a fantastic idea in general, I was inspired. Check out my version of the bungee cord bulletin board. It’s for my 7 year old son, his room is currently being decorated for the school [...]

Where We Are Now

The past month felt like a whirlwind. We were settled in with Mom only to get Chris home because his Dad died. After the trip back home to go to the services and spend a day with family, he was headed back to work. It was a fast trip for him, but at least he [...]

Alice’s Baby Sling

I taught Alice how to hand sew a couple of years ago. Every once in a while she will grab a couple of pieces of fabric, a needle and thread and sew it together. She still has big stitches sometimes, followed by little stitches. She is learning and figuring her way around things. She wanted [...]

Start of a Great Week

Last week was awesome. We really had a great week! There was little fighting between the kids and every day went smoothly. I love when everything falls into place.
We had a couple of events for Chris’ job that I was glad to attend since it meant meeting other wives on the ship. The officer section [...]

Kids Craft Project

It’s no secret I love etsy! I am there at least once a week looking around – adding to my favorite sellers and favorite product lists. Sometimes I even add to my cart but I’m really good about not impulse shopping. The past week I’ve been doing tons of homeschool research and looking around at [...]

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 [...]

Creative Kids

I’m so impressed with my kids! We have a birthday party to go to this afternoon and once they realized it was today – they ran upstairs and started making things for the little girl. Alice came back with a journal she made (cutting paper, stapling it together then writing First Diary and a math [...]