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Homemade Gift Ideas
Are you struggling to find the perfect gift for family and friends? Are you tired of shopping in all of those shopper-infested malls and waiting in those long checkout lines? Well then I have the...
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A Sweetheart Picnic For Two
So Mark and I have been together for six years now, married for almost three. We’ve done all of the fancy restaurants for Valentine’s, and have settled to the fact that we’re not into fixed-menus and...
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Chocolate Covered Strawberries Recipe
This involves two incredibly easy-to-find ingredients. Chocolate and fresh strawberries. You can make it extra special by using dark chocolate and white chocolate. I took it a step further and spelled...
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Homemade Caramel Popcorn Recipe
My sister and two girlfriends threw a baby shower for me over the weekend. It was amazing. Vintage circus themed and cute as can be. My friend Joy made this killer caramel corn that we stuffed into...
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Thanksgiving Holiday Crackers
Holiday Crackers are an old time English favorite that are typically placed on Christmas Day dinner plates. They’re also called Christmas Poppers, but I decided to celebrate with them at my...
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Simple Thanksgiving Table Setting Ideas
I love finding inexpensive ways to make my table look pretty for the holidays. Sometimes adding something as simple as an apple can make a big statement. Go with earthy tones and add splashes of Fall...
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Customized Holiday Cards
I’m totally in love with these customizable holiday cards. I love the style and the old 60′s feel it has going on. Rifle Paper Co. has a whole website full of neat cards, prints, and invitations that...
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Four Simple Tips to Help Keep Homemade Cosmetics Safe
My good friend Ben, who happens to be an amazing microbiologist, offered to share some tips on how to choose the right ingredients to make DIY cosmetics safe, like my bath soak and sugar body scrub. I...
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Before & After Children’s Dresser
We bought this Ikea dresser a while ago with plans of painting it either yellow or white. After some thought (and trial and error), I decided to paint this dresser bright white with a sunny yellow...
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Fabric-lined Glass Bowls & Plates
My friend Monica came up with this DIY. It’s pretty awesome and I’m hooked on it. I made a few Easter-themed bowls and a plate and now I can think of 1,001 other ideas and themes for these bowls. I...
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Homemade Chapstick, Two Ways
One of my dearest friends from the West Coast came to visit us with her husband this weekend. We shopped, we baked, we laughed, we cried, then laughed some more. And then we made chapstick. Life...
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Homemade Vanilla Extract
This stuff is so ridiculously easy to make. All you need is some cheap vodka, a few vanilla beans, a mason jar, and time. Lots-o-time. But that time part is easy when you store it away and just forget...
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Easy DIY Halloween Wreath
I have this wreath hung up year round in my kitchen, most of the year bare. I love the texture it gives the room and adore the wispy look. I also love that it’s a blank canvas, pretty on its own, yet...
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Scalloped Christmas Tree Cones
Crafting is twice as fun when it involves the holidays. These scalloped Christmas tree cones were easy to make and came out beautiful. It was also relatively inexpensive to put together. All you need...
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Personalized Wooden Spoons
If you’re looking for a fun and personalized gift idea, I’ve got one for you. I loved the idea of making personalized wooden spoons for my girlfriends and pairing it with homemade spoon & board...
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Homemade Vanilla Extract Kit
If you’re still looking for a fun and inexpensive gift idea for a friend, especially a friend who loves to bake, make them a Homemade Vanilla Extract Kit. It couldn’t be easier to throw together. All...
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Fabric Lined Envelopes & Cards
I made these fabric cards a couple of weeks ago with the intent of sending them to family and friends before Valentine’s Day. I loved the idea of them so much I plan on making a few sets as “Thank...
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Pastel Vases, Upcycled
We had our pre-Easter egg hunt brunch this past Sunday with friends and family. Each year, as all the kids get another year older, the hunt becomes a little bit more exciting. Last year Oliver was...
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Easy Cake Decorating
I’ve always been big on birthday cakes for family and friends. I used to bake a cake for every friend on their special day, during my college years. I never really decorated it, just did a fancy...
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Halloween Burlap Table Runner
I’m in full Halloween mode here at my house and I don’t mess around. It took everything in me not to deck out our entire house with pumpkins and Halloween decorations once September first rolled...
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