Is it fall yet?!?! I love this cozy season, and everything associated with fall! The smell of the air (minus the smoke), candles burning, crisp leaves under your feet (or slippers inside), sipping hot apple cider, and getting cozy under a blanket by the fire.…

Welcome to the laundry room/wish we had a mud room tutorial series!! I really wish we had a proper mud room! Or at least a convenient location in our house to keep all of our shoes, boots, jackets, backpacks, gloves, toques, hats, and just stuff……

Our RV Story… Once upon a time (last year) we bought a stinky, stinky Repo trailer. We bought it unseen knowing that the fridge would probably need to be replaced, the mattresses tossed, and everything would need to be very, very, very, deep cleaned! It…

Fall… The most wonderful time of the year! I love getting cozy in sweaters and boots, going for walks and kicking up the leaves, and the weather is not too hot and not too cold… It’s the most perfect time of the year! Oh, and…

Large Scale Art! We all love it, we all want it, it’s AMAZING… But we don’t want to pay for it!! Want to know what is even more amazing… Large Scale Textured Art! But you know what?!?! It’s also very expensive, and unless you have…

What to do with all that super cute schoolwork that the kiddos create each day at school, and just seems to build up on the counter, takes over the front of the fridge, fills the junk drawers, and builds up in your car?!?!… It just…

“First day of school… It’s the first day of school… Everybody is cool on the First day of school!!” And what’s cooler then a new backpack with all your favorite patches on it!! The kiddos are super excited about their new DIY cute backpacks this…

What’s cuter than a bow in a little girls hair?!?! How about a bow that blings in a little girls hair!! Well, I have just the tutorial to make your own fun sequin hair bows too. They are fun to create, and make awesome gifts…

Looking for a way to keep a face mask on your kiddos cute face?!?! Me too!!! The kids just don’t seem to want to keep the generic blue medical face masks on, that we currently have, so it is time for a DIY face mask…

“My bird feeder brings all the birds to the yard… and they’er like… it’s better than yours… damn right, it’s better than yours… I can teach you… how to make a DIY Macrame Bird feeder too!” – Wink Bringing all the birds to the yard…

A DIY Flower Wreath is just want the doctor ordered to make your home just a little more cheery. It’s easy, fun, and a great way to get creative with your kiddos. But this time we are going to find a way to make our…

Tarnish!! The death of all silver… but it doesn’t have to be! Over the years my Shawnikins has bought me a few special pieces of jewelry that have slowly turned a bit of an unsightly black color, and then eventually found their grave on my…

What is a kids summer without FREEZIES?? That yummy delicious frozen tube of sugar juice, that is hard for the little kids to push up, so that their little mouths can suck the sharp edges of plastic, causing little cuts in the corners of their…

Do you have a kid that is obsessed with guns? It seems that although I try not to have guns be apart of my kiddos lives, toy guns seem to get given to us as gifts… water guns, NERF guns, army men with guns… and…

Homemade gifts for the grandparents are where it’s at. It’s a gift from the heart, inexpensive, thoughtful, and what grandparent wouldn’t want their walls plastered in photos of their grandchildren?!?! Am I right grandparents of the world? It’s also a great gift idea if it’s…

What party is complete without swinging a rod at an awesome looking candy filled Popsicle Pinata? I have such amazing fun pinata memories from my childhood, so I wanted to share the tradition with my own kiddos. Who doesn’t love to destroy something to get…