Friday Finds – Dressing The Thanksgiving Table

I’ve found many great ideas this week for decking out your Thanksgiving Table. Let’s start off with the  centerpiece.  This beautifully charming Indian corn centerpiece can be yours (if you make it.)  Eddie Ross has step by step instructions on how to create this lovely centerpiece. Continue Reading ….

Quick and Easy Pumpkin Candles

A few weeks back, in my Friday Finds, I posted about pumpkin lanterns. These small pumpkin candle/lanterns would be great for any Thanksgiving table. I finally had a chance to make these cute little candles and I thought I’d share with you how it turned out. Continue Reading ….

Friday Finds

Here’s some of my finds this week. To feed my craving for fall related foods I found this delicious recipe for Apple Cake over at Baby Tooklit and these wonderful looking honey caramel apples at Our Best Bites. Continue Reading ….

Getting Corny – Corn Husk Dolls

[ad name=”Above Content”] At our CSA’s harvest festival over the weekend I was a volunteer and I was tasked with helping both children and disabled adults create corn husk dolls.  I had a blast.   These dolls are very simple to make and my friend and I assisted in the making of around 150 dolls….

Frightening Friday Finds

This week I have seen tons of great crafting and cooking ideas for Halloween, here are a few of my favorites. This time of year everyone needs a recipe for edible fake blood and there’s a great tutorial for it over at Clockwork Lemon.  If you’re looking for a non blood related treat then check…

Ghoulish Garlands

The girls and I decided to make some Halloween decorations.  Their current obsession with vampires led them to create some crazy vampire families, good and evil, to hang around the house.  While they were doing that I grabbed some great printable garlands online from Paper Crave and The Long Thread. Continue Reading ….

Blending Home Made and Store Brought Items for Great Gift Giving.

My kids were invited to a birthday this weekend and much like most of the parents I know their child has plenty of toys so we were at a loss of what to give.  What we ended up doing was giving a mix of store brought and home made goodies.  My oldest had a bracelet…

My First Drop

I made my first drop this morning for The Toy Society. I found out about this group from a blog post over at Design Mom. The Toy Society started out as a street art project in Australia and has spread throughout the world. The idea behind the toy society is to create hand made toys…

Spring Knitting

This cute reversable bunny/chick toy is from Spud & Chloe. The pattern is free and I was able to knit it up in just a matter of hours. I had intended to intention to give this as an easter gift but a sleepy me left it sitting out after it was knit and the girls…

My Adventure with Creating a Safe Reusable Sandwich/Snack Bag

I just recently got my sewing machine all set up in my bedroom. This is actually quite a process so once it’s set up I like to do as much as possible with it before I put it away. To follow up on my reusable lunch bags I decided to create a reusable sandwich/snack bag….