January 11, 2024

2024 {1-page} Planning Calendar

 


I hope you all had a wonderful new year!

Time is flying like usual and I finally got my {1-page} planning calendar done for this year. 

I love this little calendar! 

It helps me so much! 

I'm a Young Women's leader in our church and we have activities every week so this is a huge help to keep track of the days, weeks and months of things we have to plan. 

* its free *

...so go ahead and find the file below

print as many as you want...



December 14, 2023

Shrinky Dink Ornament

Its almost Christmas already! What happened to this year?! It has flown by so fast!

Each year I make or order an ornament with our family picture. This year I decided to try making one with Shrinky Dink plastic. 

This stuff is so fun and super easy to use!

You can make just about anything you want... and they are really durable. 

I really like how it turned out!... and it should last for a very long time. 

So if you don't know how to use Shrinky dink plastic let me show you...

Its really quite fun!




December 1, 2023

Cozy Sweatshirt DIY

Winter's coming! We've been fogged in for a week or so and its beautiful outside, very Christmas like. 

I really like to stay inside and craft when the weather is cold. So here's another sweater I made that I'm very excited to share! It turned out so cute and its so comfy!

There are so many cute shirts out there its so fun to see all the different designs and creative graphics! But I really like to make my own.

I really love this sweater... and I can wear it for the whole cold season... which for us is November through April most years. 

It was so easy and fun to make... my youngest keeps saying she needs one too. 

I'm thinking I might even need a few more of this same design in different colors of sweatshirt.... and a few different colors of the other design I made (both designs are at the bottom of this post). 

November 10, 2023

Cozy Decor


Its getting cold... we've had some really cold days and I really don't like the cold. 

Even though we have a really great furnace... I still freeze... even when its 75 in the house. So I found some really cute buffalo plaid blankets to wrap up in... and I just had to get the pillow cases to go with them ;)

They are super soft and wash really well. The sad part is... I don't always get the chance to use them because our girls are always wrapped up in them... they even have their own but they always take mine. 

Silly kids!

October 18, 2023

Halloween signs DIY

Its spooky outside!

Halloween is right around the corner and we finally got our Halloween signs finished. 

These signs were a pain for me to make.  Mostly it was my fault because I used oil based paint which took a lot longer to dry... then I messed up the vinyl the first time so I had to re-do it... and the paint kept pealing off the second sign... so after 3 or 4 tries, I finally declared them done regardless of how they looked. 

I do like the way they turned out even with all the mistakes.



October 1, 2023

Solar Jack-O-Lanterns


Its October!... there's a scare in the air.

These solar pumpkins are one of the coolest projects! 

We love carving pumpkins and lighting them for All-Hallows-Eve but we only get to enjoy them for one night... all that work for one night. 

So when I saw this project on the internet I was online ordering some solar lights so I could make some solar pumpkins.

As soon as the solar lights arrived I got started. 


September 15, 2023

Retaining Wall


Summer is winding down and its time to get a few things done before it gets cold outside...

I know this isn't something I normally share but I'm really excited about this project!

Well I got a huge surprise a couple Saturdays ago when I thought we'd be working on some projects my Husband wanted to get done... instead he got the tractor and we started digging out the section of lawn between our house and shop.

Its been a sloped mess since we moved in 6 years ago... it's to steep to walk down, hard to mow and we can only keep patches of grass alive. We've talked about changing it for a while but I thought it was on the bottom of our project list.

So, I was really surprised when he started digging out the sod... and we got another surprise when as we dug out the grass we found a lot of large flat stones.