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Halloween DIY Bubble Gum Machine #WordlessWednesday
Well Halloween has come and gone, but I wanted to share our photos from this year’s event to prolong the fun a bit. As you can see we had a great time with costumes this year. Payton and I found the concept for this DIY Halloween Bubble Gum Machine costume on Pinterest and we duplicated it, with a few modifications for a young girl. I don’t let my kids wear costumes that are inappropriate for their ages. On Pinterest this Halloween DIY Bubble Gum Machine was shown with a mini-skirt. I prefer the pants and I think Payton did a great job with this. We found all the items for…
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Halloween Mantel Ideas
This is the first year we have ever had a fireplace in our home. In our old house we had some lovely spaces, but no fireplace. I never thought I cared. Now in our new house we have a fireplace in the living room. It has a mantel and is a focal point for the eye as you enter the front door. So naturally I have been thinking about potential for decorating the mantel this coming holiday season. I started looking forward to decorating that mantel several months ago. Halloween has provided the ideal first opportunity to get creative with that. I got a few great Halloween Mantel ideas…
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Best Birthday Gifts for Crafty Kids: Kiwi Crate Review
I was going to show you the web site for Kiwi Crate, but then I realized I needed to capture how fun this experience is. I spied Kiwi Crate crafting experiences on line, likely in someone’s twitter mentions at some point and realized I really wanted to take a peek under the hood so to speak. So the Faboosh people at Kiwi Crate sent me one this week. My girls are craft crazy. They always have been. My oldest child at the age of three would endlessly search the house for recyclables to turn into crafts. She has yet to grow out of this. I sent her to an…
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Five Easy Steps to Personalize Your Twitter Header #DIY
It’s been a few weeks now since twitter changed up its design and some people are still asking how to change their twitter header design, so I thought I would give you a quick lesson. In the interest of prettying up my Twitter stream, here you go: 1. Call up your Twitter home screen. 2. Click on your name – above where it says – view on profile page. (Your name in the left corner of the screen. When you hover over it, the link should be highlighted.) Click on that. Up pops your screen. For some of you there is still wasted real estate behind your Twitter avatar or…