• Get your craft on with these fun projects!

    April 10, 2020

    Looking for new ideas for crafting with kids? Here are 7 fun projects that we have tried and loved to add to your must-do list. It’s hard to believe that we’ve been crafting daily for the last 3 weeks now. The only reason I know this is true is because of the piles of crafty goodness that are strewn throughout the house. Some of it’s in the kitchen, others are downstairs in Anna’s play area, and more still is sitting on the edge of the kitchen table waiting for a new home. Why do you care about any of that?…

  • Inspire a little magic with pocket people

    April 3, 2020

    Anna has been obsessed with fairies for the last year or so. It started with watching Tinkerbell and then hit full throttle a little while later after seeing fairy gardens online. She’s been drawing fairy houses and building fairy gardens for months. And, now, she has found a love for pocket fairies thanks to our egg carton fairy craft we did a few weeks ago. After our initial burst of inspiration using the fairy template, my mom and I have been working on various templates for fairies of our own. As a result, Anna and I have been having fun…

  • The Magic of the Smush (Painting)

    March 27, 2020

    We are almost two weeks into our 100 Day Project and I have to say that smush paintings have been one of our favorites so far. What are smush paintings, you ask? They are a style of painting where you lay blobs of paint onto paper then cover it with wax paper and SMUSH the paint down to create beautiful abstract paintings. The baby even got in on the fun and got to smush her painting in a zip-top bag. I loved how easy they were to create, how beautiful the end product was, AND how contained the mess was.…

  • 7 things to make with your kids this week.

    March 22, 2020

    Looking for some tried and true craft projects to do with your kids? Here are seven of our favorite kids crafts to add to your must-do list. We are officially one week into our 100 Day Project and about 9 days into social distancing slash voluntary quarantining due to COVID-19. To say that we’ve been needing something positive to focus our energy on is an understatement. Which is why this project has been a godsend this first week. We’ve made some amazing craft projects already and are looking forward to what the next week holds. All of the craft projects…

  • Coconut + Olive Oil Hot Process Soap

    December 13, 2019

    I have been wanting to make my own soaps for at least a decade, but was terrified of using lye. So I moved onto other things, like lip balm and hand bound books, and placed my dreams of soap making on the back burner. That is, until this past summer when I began looking for things to do during #the100dayproject and came across a few hot process soap recipes. They looked easy enough and even had VIDEOS showing what it looked like when adding lye to water. So I invited a friend over while Anna was at school to make…

  • Peanut Butter Chia Pudding

    December 6, 2019

    I’ve had a love hate relationship with chia pudding for years. I’ve wanted to love it but end up just hating it because of how runny and slimy it is. I would see recipes online for the thickest and most delicious looking chia pudding and wonder why mine never looked (or tasted) as good. I went so far as to buy an electric grinder thinking it was a texture thing. When that didn’t work, I gave up and just added a tablespoon of chia seeds to smoothies or breads here and there. That is, until a month ago when my…

  • The 100 Day Project Wrap-Up

    July 23, 2019

    Welp. It’s official. Another 100 Day Project is in the books. Out of all the different iterations of this project I’ve done, I’d say that this has been the most fun and most difficult. Fun, because I got to spend a whole lot of quality time with my daughter doing things we both loved doing. And difficult, because I am officially 2 weeks away from giving birth to my second child. To be fair, I knew going into it that this would be a challenge for me because I was pregnant and would be wrapping up the project about a…