Ideas to make your home brighter & your heart lighter
Easter really snuck up on me this year. Does putting some jelly beans in a mason jar count as decorating? Because that’s the sum total of my Easter decorating so far. If you’re in the same boat as I am, never fear. I’ll be demonstrating a fun and cheap Easter craft at 1 p.m. EDT [...]
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways… When it comes to matters of the heart, it’s not what you spend, but how you show it. This Valentine’s Day craft encourages heartfelt declarations, but it only set me back $5 at Dollar Tree. Here’s what I bought: 2 sets of wedding favor buckets [...]
Oh what blogging peer pressure. Debbie at Debbiedoos and Shannon at Fox Hollow Cottage threw down the creative gauntlet and challenged their fellow bloggers to craft some Valentine’s Day fabulousness out of supplies from the dollar store. I have bags and bags of Dollar Tree goodies waiting to be crafted. And waiting and waiting and waiting. [...]
My son’s crafting table was a disorganized mess. Crayons, pencils, scissors, and supplies everywhere. I needed away to corral them. Habitat Restore and Dollar Tree to the rescue. Here’s all you need to create your own desktop organizer: a piece of wood or a salvaged drawer front (I got mine for $1 at the [...]
I’m not quite sure how “bucket lists” became so popular. Blame it on Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. Or maybe it’s that I’m older, and I’m more interested in such things. In my 20s, the idea of a bucket list would have been laughable to me. I don’t have a bucket list of my own; [...]
