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The Quick and Easy Method for Hanging Shirts
I am often surrounded by Laundry! Clean laundry, dirty laundry, piles and piles of laundry! So I love to find or come up with ideas that help make the chore quicker and easier. Today I want to share with you the quick way I hang shirts, it has helped me get laundry done more efficiently. Here are the simple, easy steps to hanging shirts in no time at all (yeah, more time to craft!!) *First lay all your shirts in a pile with necklines lined up at the top. Have your hangers sitting close by. *Next, starting from the BOTTOM, add your hangers one shirt at a time working your way to the top of the pile. (remember tuck…
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Clean and Organize your Kitchen – Part 4
Welcome Back to the Clean and Tidy Series: How to Clean and Organize your Kitchen. If you missed it here is Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of our Kitchen Organization Series. Today I want to show you how cute the Food Storage Kitchen Canisters I made turned out!! I showed you how I made them in Part 3. They are so cute, and I love having my food in nice organized canisters. And they were so simple to make! *If you need the instructions from the bag for food that you need to cook, simply cut out the instructions from the bag/box that the food came from and attach them to the back using…
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Budget Travel Tips
(room in Rome that was reserved through airbnb.com) I love to travel, but vacations can quickly become really expensive. I’ll be sharing some ways to cut travel costs by making specific choices of where you will sleep, what you will eat, and how you will spend your time. Most of my tips can be applied to local, domestic, and international destinations. Today’s post will focus on choosing where you stay. The accommodations are usually the most expensive part of the trip. There are plenty of nice hotels to stay at, but if you want to travel often (which I do) you have to cut costs on every trip. There are…
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Families are Forever Primary Bulletin Board Idea
I serve as a councilor in my church Primary organization. On Sunday’s I help teach the children and work with the presidency to organize things in the primary. Today I want to share some of our ‘Families are Forever’ Primary Theme Ideas with you! This year our theme is ‘Families are Forever’ and we have a large bulletin board that we decorate each year to match the theme. So we decided to create this giant 3D tree with the children’s family photos hanging from the branches. I just love how it turned out! This is how we made it… Large Family Tree Bulletin Board Tutorial: Staple light weight fabric to your board,…
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DIY Large Photo Collage
DIY Large Photo Collages (An inexpensive DIY Tutorial) I’m so excited to share the Large Photo Collage I made with you! We recently moved into a new home and in this new home of ours is a large wall that goes up the stairway. I wanted to do something with that huge space that was dramatic and eye catching. That’s when I remembered seeing a picture of these large photo booth style collages on Pinterest. I knew then that, that is what I wanted to do. So I searched for a tutorial and couldn’t really find what I was looking for, for a couple of reasons: 1. I wanted to make one…
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Valentines Day Food Ideas
You know what tomorrow is, right?!?! Valentine’s Day! I am so excited to spend time with the ones I love. And every year I look forward to doing random acts of love for my family. This year I will be going to the kids classrooms during their Valentines Parties and I’ll be making some fun Valentine’s snacks for the kids, and a Valentine dinner for the family. I also like to decorate a little for our special day! So if you’re looking for some last minute Valentines Day Food Ideas you’ve come to the right place! Today I’ve collected a bunch of last minute Valentine Food ideas just for you, lets…
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Wall Art Canvas Picture Tutorial
Today I want to share an easy and inexpensive DIY Canvas Picture Home Décor Idea. It turned out so cute and I’m here to show you how to make it! Wall Art Picture Canvas Tutorial I made this for a dear friend of mine for her birthday. Usually when I want to make my friends a homemade gift I simply stalk their pinterest and see what they love! I saw these FREE PRINTABLES over on Jessica Spragues’s Blog and just knew it would look great on some canvas. So I decided to make you a little tutorial on how to add a photo to canvas to make a beautiful piece of wall…
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Valentine Crafts
Here are some super cute Valentine Craft Ideas from around the web that I would love to share with you. Take some time to craft with your kids for Valentines! It’s a great way to show them how much you love them during this season of Love! Check out these cute Heart Shaped dollar bills, perfect for putting a little cash in your kids Valentine basket or fun to teach your kids how to make! Here’s a fun idea for a craft for your hubby! You can find it over at the Happygoluckyblog. Here’s another fun activity, this would be great for your older child to practice some sewing! Check out the tutorial over at Robinek…
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Super Soft Sugar Cookie Recipe + Frosting
Super Soft Sugar Cookies with Buttercream Frosting I have tried a lot of sugar cookie recipes in my day. I have tried the one from my Betty Crocker cookbook. I have tried the Lofthouse copycat recipe. I have tried the recipes with sour cream. But I always fall back on this recipe. I got this from a great friend years ago, who used to have my little kids over to her house to decorate sugar cookies. We have since moved apart from each other, but every time I make sugar cookies, I think of Lori and how much I love her. So I guess this recipe also has a little…
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DIY Homemade Valentines Ideas for Kids – Part 2
I wanted to share a couple more Valentine Ideas with you all. These are my kids Valentines from last year. Here is my daughter Sam’s Valentine… I added some chocolate lips to a cute photo I took of her! After I took her photo I added some text in photoshop. Then I got a bunch printed and taped on the chocolate lips (I bought the chocolate lips from Oriental Trading Comp. online). Just look at all those Valentines…. My son’s valentine was not so girly!! It was the perfect Valentine for a boy! I got the idea HERE. Check out his bug Valentine… To make this Valentine you will need to go HERE…
