You will love these Olympic-themed party ideas, from food to backyard games and lots of kid-friendly crafts! Who else is super excited about the Olympics starting? We cannot wait! Especially since it's now been 3 years since the last Olympic games. As a family, we decided that we're going to have an Olympic-themed party for the opening ceremonies, and my kids are already brainstorming ideas. There are so many fun ideas that we found, we just had to share with you guys. Which one of these ideas is sticking out to you? I want to make them all! This isn't
Folded Book Art - Best & Most Clear Tutorial Available: I just absolutely love creating my own folded book art. It's such a fun way of re-using old books and give them another purpose. I've searched and searched the web to find any tutorials on how to do it and i just couldn't find anything. Until one da…
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Easy-to-follow instructions on how to make an adorable yarn octopus with yarn and cotton balls. A fun and creative craft for kids, beginners, and groups.
It’s Monday. Mondays always feel like they move in slow-motion as I try to snap out of the weekend mindset and get motivated to actually accomplish something productive with my week. Usually…
Such interesting stuff!!! It's amazing what I'm finding now that I've taken a sewing break...... How cool, huh? And there's so much more. Good thing I'm not going to get hooked into that too! E-gads, if I spend any more time on this computer I'll never have time to sew! I do want to wish you many blessings this holiday season! Thank you for visiting with me! I appreciate each and every one of you and hope and pray that you all find peace and fun with those you love in these next few days of joyfulness. Merry Christmas!!
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Now is the perfect time to gear up for summer activities. My children have been begging me to take a kite to the beach. But this got me thinking, why not use this opportunity as a learning one? Thi…
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I have been MIA (Missing in Action) due to the remodel of the house (& a few trips for sanity sake) that we bought last year! We got a good deal on it but, it has been a TOTAL GUT JOB! We started in the Master Suite before moving in but, the kitchen is what started 2014! Above is the finished project & I LOVE IT!!!! Below is the old original kitchen. HATED the honey gold shiny wood cabinets! January 7th they came in & GUTTED the kitchen. Took out everything to the floor except a few cabinets. It was one of the coldest winters Texas has had in awhile & we had an 8 x10 foot hole cut in the wall with only a thin plastic sheet covering it. Eventually, we got sheet rock. It was still COLD!!!! And dirty! We had a band of "Merry Men" show up almost everyday. Below was the way the breakfast room looked when we viewed the house for the first time. And below is the same area during the demo phase... I decided I didn't need a breakfast nook as we have a HUGE island with stools at the end so I created a sitting area where my friends & family can sit & visit with me while I prepare food. We all really enjoy this area & those 3 windows look out into the back yard & flood the room with natural light. Below is my old stove. UGLY is the only word to describe it!!!! Down draft that had a horrible cold wind blowing up those vents for the whole 9 months before we ripped that sucker out. And those TWO (yes you heard me right TWO) burners were not big enough for anything other than an 9" skillet. Try cooking a family meal with TWO SMALL BURNERS! But things improved dramatically!!! I LOVE my new 5 burner gas stove top with the pot filler above! Just wasn't feeling the love of the old oven... But, do LOVE my new double lower convection oven & convection microwave. And to add to the ease of Holidays I have a warming drawer in the center island for keeping rolls, casseroles, & other goodies warm. I've never had one & can't wait to use it. UGLY!!!!! That's the word for my old Formica countertops & 12" mauve builder grade tiles. You can see those below but, to the right is my new granite. My dark wood floors are beautiful but, it's a LOVE/HATE relationship as they show every spec of dirt, grass, dust.... And with having 2 acres right out that back door I can tell you Daddy Darling & little Ms Elle can really drag in the filth. We kept the cabinets by the sink & refrigerator. We had new cabinets made to match their style & then our painter (who is such a PRO) came in & painted old/new to match & I LOVE the clean look with the antique finish in all the nooks & crannies of the cabinets. So, after 3 months of pure remodel HELL... I LOVE MY NEW KITCHEN! It brings a smile to my face to flip on those under counter lights, fix a cup of coffee & ENJOY!!! I'd love to hear your thoughts on my new kitchen & how I made all my changes. HUGS!
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My kids absolutely loved doing this activity. So did I. My sister-in-law has been a school teacher and has moved into a principal position. She has handed me some of the supplies she used to use in the classroom. The other day she gave me a bag full of straws. She said she was sure...Read More
Yes. Narrative writing....again.....well, personal narratives! :) Here are our "ouch stories": We started with this as our pre-write, which I also use as our first draft: And then we moved to our final draft {we stuck band-aides to the side of our paper for the added drama}: Click {here} to download this freebie! :) I've also included upper-grades writing paper
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Who doesn’t love the Olympics? They’re about to begin soon, and I want to expose my kids to this world stage. I showed them some videos on YouTube to show them exactly why we were making these Olympic rings. Then, we made our craft. Paper Plate Olympic Rings Craft This is a really simple craft....Read More
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TOOTHPICK DOLLS Hi, This is Risa from Restless Risa.I am super excited to be heretoday! I love party planning, and finding new projects and crafts
When it comes to making art, I'm all about the process. While I love working on a project from start to finish, I've found that it's in the "journey" and the time spent experimenting that I grow the most. There are days when I will spend hours playing with a technique, supply or process simply to learn! Lately I've been having lots of fun painting on photo paper. Photo paper has a slick surface which means the color that you apply to the surface moves and slides around creating some really amazing and beautiful effects. All you really need for this process is photo paper and color. PHOTO PAPER: Just about any photo paper will work and by photo paper I mean the paper that you use for printing photos. The surface of photo paper is typically glossy and comes in a variety of different finishes from low gloss to high gloss to luster. I found in all of my experimenting that the shinier the paper, the more your color will move and change. COLOR: You can use pretty much any type of ink or paint for this process but I found the more fluid the paint (or ink) the better results. The materials that I like to use are liquid watercolors, ink sprays, acrylic inks and fabric dye. All of these supplies are really really fluid which means they will slip and slide around on that glossy paper. RUBBING ALCOHOL: Isopropyl Alcohol is my favorite supply to use with this process because when you drop it onto your surface, it will react with the color and repel that color leaving an area of the surface exposed. There are so many different ways to work with these materials! Here is a peek into the process and a few of my favorite ways to work with photo paper. pretty paper from Alisa Burke on Vimeo. Drop color on the surface. Use a brush and blend that color. You will notice immediately the color blends and moves on the top of the that glossy surface (instead of soaking into the paper) which allows you to hold onto the movement of those brushstrokes. Using a dropper, drop a little bit of rubbing alcohol into that color and watch all that color move around! I've found that the color will continue to change, blend and bleed for quite some time while it dries. I like to work back and forth with a lot of colors by adding color on top of color and then adding alcohol on top of all that color and then repeating. The result is all those colors moving and blending together. Keep in mind too much color can result in making mud. You can also start with a really light layer of color where you let your bush strokes show through and then add that alcohol. This will result in a lighter surface with more of the paper showing through. Start with a wash of water or even a wash of alcohol and then add your color to the surface. That color will blend and bleed into each other and will create a really beautiful marbled effect. You can even create a painting of something specific on the surface of the photo paper but because this paper is not absorbent, the painting will be really loose. This is a fun way to create expressive and abstract art. I like to let my surface dry overnight. Once they are dry, I like to use these colorful surfaces as pages for my art journal, backgrounds for collage and as a background for drawings. I even like to trace over the top of the shapes in the color and turn them into abstract and unique drawings and doodles. With a few of these simple supplies, the creative options are ENDLESS!!
I don’t know about you, but I hate throwing away old magazines. I love to have the ability to look back at spreads for inspiration, however they start piling up and take up a great deal of space. We’ve found 15 great DIY repurposing projects for all those magazines that are getting dusty. So go search in all your basement closets and start DIYing!
