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Give the Gift of Homemade: 5 Things You Can Make
I love giving gifts around the holiday time. There is nothing better than making a gift and seeing the smile and excitement on a loved one’s face when they open it! It means so much more when I give or receive a homemade gift because I know that person put their time and love into it. I put together a…
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Free Little Pumpkin Crochet Pattern
This cute little pumpkin crochet pattern is part of the collection of appliques I made for my daughter’s monthly photos when she was a baby! These were so fun to make and personalize. I wanted to share the patterns with you because they are great for beginner crocheters. These pumpkins are a great little project for fall decor, Halloween, and…
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Learn How to Grow Loofahs and Never Buy Another Sponge
Ahh, you amazing cleaning tool that we call the sponge. Oh, how we love thee! But you have done us wrong! If not just the fact that you over time cost us vast amounts of money, now we are faced with the fact that you are poisoning us. Therefore we shall grow loofahs like the hippys and toss your microplastic-producing…
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Mason Jar Gifts with Cookie Recipes
I have received so many compliments on the mason jar gifts that I gave out around Christmas last year. It was so fun to receive pictures of my friends and their kiddos baking these cookies and brownies together. I’ll be making these super easy gifts again next year. Pinterest is the best for providing some free resources that I used…
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How to Make a Weekly Pregnancy Tracker
First of all, if you’re looking at ideas for pregnancy trackers, you’re probably pregnant so congratulations!! My daughter is currently 7 years old so these are a few years old but still such a cute idea and I plan on doing something similar with my next pregnancy. I just think tracking your belly progress and some random thoughts during your…
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Turn Whelk Shells into Beautiful Succulent Planters
First, you go to the beach…then you make the pretty succulent planters. My family recently moved to Northern Illinois from Eastern North Carolina and while in NC I loved going with a friend of mine to the beach to find shells and shark teeth. Walking along the beach is always fun, shells or no shells. One of our favorite spots…
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The Best 3 Montessori Volcano Activities
In the Montessori world, Volcano Activities are a big deal toward the beginning of the year. In the elementary classroom, we give the 1st Great Lesson at the beginning of the year and that opens the door to many different key areas of study such as space, geology, the periodic table, states of matter, etc. Within those studies is the…
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Store Your Canned Goods On This Amazing DIY Shelf
Do you have a designated place where you store your canned goods? I know this might sound like a crazy thing to think of if you don’t have your garden built – but my brain is always thinking 5 steps ahead. When I started really thinking about growing a garden it dawned on me that I would need to have…
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Attaching a filter to a Stock Tank is super easy.
With all the amazing decorating ideas online about styling the perfect backyard stock tank pool, there are very few that talk about how to set it up. I spent hours on top of hours trying to figure out exactly what and how to do it. Not only did I get excited and jump in the stock tank pool world without…
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Moon Activities from Space Camp that are Fun & Easy
This week was Space Camp for us and we did a lot of activities that kept our campers busy and having fun learning a bit about space. The first day of camp was about the moon so we chose two activities to do! One of the activities was an orbiting project so the kids could see how the moon orbits…
