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12 Days of Christmas Activities With The Kids… Day 12: Felt Christmas Tree

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I have started doing the 12 days of Christmas countdown with my kids and instead of gifts, I have been giving them time. Time to be creative, time to bake cookies, time to make and play with things like felt Christmas trees!! I have been thinking of doing this for so long, because of all [...]

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Old Sweater = Coffee Cup Cozies… Such An Easy Craft Idea!

Just the other day I was in my beloved local village coffee shop the other day and discovered the most adorable, creative and crafty items. My favorites were the homemade cup cozies that someone had made and donated for sale. Made from sweater sleeves, and some from sweater pieces sewn together, these very unique and [...]

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Homemade and Eco Friendly Art Smocks

I just saw a picture of the cutest art smocks! It was for children’s art smocks, but I don’t see why you couldn’t do the same for adults. All it is is a t-shirt with large pockets sewn on the front. I may actually pull out the sewing machine and make one of these for [...]

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Create Personalized Halloween Trick or Treat Candy Bags

I was scrolling through some websites the other day for some cute craft ideas for Halloween. One of my favorites was creating personalized trick or treat candy bags. The adorable, creative idea I saw was to get a plan linen bag from your local craft store, and dress it up to your liking. All you [...]

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Fun With Cardboard… No Really, Lots of fun!

Over the summer, my son decided that it would be fun to start creating things out of cardboard. He just loved it, and I love the imagination that I saw come out in him. First, it was a cardboard television. We cut out the front and the back, and he was able to either stick [...]

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Broken Crayon Muffins

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As a parent, broken crayons are a fact of life. Scattered on the floor or in a drawer, there is no getting away from them. For most parents, tossing them is the easiest thing to do, especially since you can get new ones for so little money. There are bigger crisis to handle than broken [...]

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How To Create Cheap, Homemade Photo Albums

I heard about this idea the other day from a friend, and I thought I would share. As parents, we want to save everything that or children do. The school papers, the handprints, the stories they write, and of course, the pictures of them. Purchasing albums can be quite expensive as you can imagine. So [...]

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Creative, EASY and Cheap Halloween Decorations!

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Decorating for Halloween is one of those things that just looks like it is so much fun, and you really get in the mood to do it, until you actually do it. Then, you realize how little fun it can be to actually string the fake spider web around the bushes, hang things from trees, [...]

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