I have a friend who has made such a powerful impact on my life that I hardly know how to thank her for her friendship. One of the great gifts she has given me is the sharing of her parenting thoughts and experiences as she raises her 7 children.  She, too, has 5 girls.  The [...]

I have been completely ga-ga over my baby’s feet since she was born.  It should be no surprise, therefore, that I used her feet to make a valentine celebrating her first 6 months of life. I glued the ribbon around the edge of the footprints to help create the image of a heart.  Nothing fancy, [...]

My grandma turned 80 years old this week.  I had a hard time thinking of a simple, inexpensive, but thoughtful thing to do for her until I thought of the numbers.  Then it hit me:  8 children, 80 candles.  So we went to work. I grabbed my pack of 80 candles I’d purchased months ago [...]

I saw this on Nannygoat and knew it was the solution to all my Valentine woes!  It took only minutes to pull together, and I feel like it’s the best Valentine I’ll ever send to school with my children: Adorable!  It’s personalized, and best of all, I don’t have to sit there while they write [...]

After making my first book page wreath, I made a second one while showing some friends how to do it.  If you’d like to try it, you can find my tutorial here. It was so interesting to see how different the colors turned out simply by using a different book. One thing led to another, [...]

There’s something fun about the stacks of paper and supplies that I always have when I’m making my Christmas cards. blue cardstock, strips of old sheet music found at the thrift store, green tags cut with my current favorite paper punch and stamped with a design and a greeting, a large stack of pictures of [...]

Okay, so I know that you don’t usually celebrate a baby’s first 3.5 months of life by mailing the birth announcements.  I realize it’s supposed to happen sooner than that.  But… when it’s your 8th baby and you’ve done it for all your other children, well, you do it late rather than not doing it [...]

Last week I saw a post on The Inspired Room about a wreath made from the pages of a book. I popped over to Living With Lindsay and read her tutorial, then watched her video on how to make one.  She shows you how to roll the paper and how to avoid burning your fingers [...]