Gardens Rock!

My husband and I decided to try our hand at veggie gardening again this year (previous attempts have had varying amounts of success). We needed some way to mark out what we were growing and I whipped these little guys up! The rocks came out of the soil where we planted the garden, so it…

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Mother’s Day 2020

We usually get together as a family for Mother’s Day, but since we are currently living in the end of days, we couldn’t gather in person this year. But that wasn’t going to stop me from crafting! I saw a really cute idea on Pinterest that used kids hand prints to make lilies, and despite…

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Faux Wainscoting

This little painting trick was created by painting the wall flat black, taping out the rectangle, and then painting the rectangle with a gloss black. Time consuming for sure, but it saved a ton of money in supplies and it looked awesome!

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Money Cake

A money birthday cake for my sister! She loves googly eyes, so all the “candles” on the top row have little faces on them 🙂

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Cork Board

This was a BIG project. I cut each of these corks in half so I would have enough to cover this old hutch door and I totally gave myself blisters. Not sure I’d tackle a cork project this big again without seriously improving my tools and techniques.

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Autumn Wreath

My first adventure with deco mesh! There’s a wire frame hidden under all those mesh loops and I hot glued the autumn leaves into place.

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Birthday Balloons

For my sister’s birthday, I tied cash to a bunch of helium filled balloons, taped those balloons down onto a box at strategic heights and then trapped all the balloons under a layer of wrapping paper, so when she opened the box, all the balloons would pop out, but not fly away!

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Mom’s 65th Birthday Party

Hunk a-hunk of burnin’ pumpkin! Cheesecake Sandcastle For my mom’s 65th birthday party, we threw Mom an Elvis Presley Beach Bash, complete with surfing Elvis cardboard cutout! But since her birthday is in late September it had a bit of an autumn slant. The homemade cheesecake sandcastle wasn’t an easy task!

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