Here’s an easy, last-minute Christmas gift idea for you to make! (You don’t even have to be “crafty”!) Vanilla Sugar Scrub Combine 1 cup white sugar, 1 cup brown sugar, and 1 tsp. vanilla extract in a bowl. Stir well. Add enough olive oil to give it the texture of wet sand. Place the sugar [...]
If you’re like me, you’re always trying to think of new ways to save money and reuse the things you already have around the house. Well, I got the idea to reuse our tissue boxes and make these cute Christmas present tags out of them. Sometimes we have some really pretty designs! And I’m one [...]
So Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. And I admit, I’m using Jayden as an excuse to relive my childhood, only like 10x’s better, lol. I really like decorating our home according to season. It just makes life at home more exciting! I had the opportunity to shop Kmart’s Totally Ghoul selection using Kmart’s 50ft Party and Dawn’s Kmart Halloween Party Bluprint as inspiration. Halloween Shopping List Plush Pirate Mickey Treat Bowl Assorted Candy 3 Hanging Heads 20pk Bats 4pk Spiders Command Hooks Freaky Fabric Pumpkin Lights Purple Icicle Lights (couldn’t figure out what to do with them) With [...]
Lately, I’ve been brushing up on my domestic skills and I recently started making my own HE laundry detergent that works great in our Whirlpool Duet washer. Instead of talking about custom cycles as originally planned, I’d like to share my laundry detergent recipe instead. Before I get into the recipe, I’d like to update a bit on the our Duet pair. They are still serving us well and we are quite pleased with them. We haven’t created any custom cycles since we are content with the built in suite of cycles. So yeah that kind of skewed my plans [...]
In the two years that we have lived in our home, I have resisted the temptation to paint. Oh, how these white walls continue to taunt me. See, I painted a few rooms in two of our previous places and both times that we moved, Greg was stuck doing most of the repainting. Those experiences were so traumatic that I promised him that I would not paint until we became homeowners. Well, it’s kind of hard to live up to that promise with the awesomeness that is Pinterest, a desire to cozy up our home for the cooler seasons (because [...]
LEGO blocks were one of my absolute favorite toys to play with as a child. It’s hard to believe the company has been around 30 whole years! Since Halloween is around the corner, I decided to see if any stores were selling any LEGO costumes. To my surprise, the results were slim. I did find…
