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Playmat Purse: Sugar Plum Fairies

March 8, 2012 in Announcements, SnugasaBugBaby Products

This was the 2nd or 3rd Playmat Purse I ever made. I sold the first one well over a year ago. Duplicates have been listed for sale in my etsy shop ever since. But I just realized that I never posted it on my blog. So here it is, finally [...]

Adult T-Shirt to Little Boy’s T-Shirt: A Photo Tutorial

March 5, 2012 in Made by Mom

A couple of weeks ago, I showed you this picture of our family proudly sporting our church’s “e” logo. I told you that it was the night before we were to bring our plain T-shirts to our church gathering to have them screen-printed that I remembered it was the night [...]

A Framed E and a Framed K Plus an O

February 28, 2012 in Making our House a Home

For our master bedroom leaning ledge (which I’ll be showing you in its entirety next weeks when I reveal our Master Bedroom), I challenged myself to spend no more than $5 on any one frame. There are lots of thin flimsy frames in this price range…but I wanted nice chunky [...]

His, Hers, and Ours Comforters – And How to Make Your Own Duvet from Two Top Sheets

February 23, 2012 in Making our House a Home

This post has been featured! Yesterday, I showed you the King-Size Pottery Barn Stratton Bed Knock-Off that we built.Today, let me tell you more about the bedding. I know there aren’t as many layers of blankets or throw pillows as the Pottery Barn catalog boasts of. This is a very [...]

Pottery Barn Knock-Off: King-Size Stratton Bed

February 22, 2012 in Making our House a Home

This post has been featured! When I first posted our plans and inspiration for our Master Bedroom renovation, I showed you this bed, The Pottery Barn Stratton Bed, and shared that we intended to make our own. Usually, it is pictured with an uholstered headboard like this one (we decided [...]

Lady’s Shirt to Baby’s Dress: A Photo Tutorial

February 20, 2012 in Made by Mom

This post has been featured! It was the night before we were to bring our plain Tshirts to our church gathering to have them screenprinted that I remembered it was the night before we were to bring our plain Tshirts to our church gathering to have them screenprinted. Neither of [...]

Kid Food

February 18, 2012 in Made by Mom, Other People's Stuff I Like

For the most part, I just feed Josiah whatever we’re eating. Lately he has been requesting a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I make them pretty boring…the only variation being whether I cut it in half lengthwise or crosswise. But I have been inspired of late to have [...]

How to Paint French Doors

February 17, 2012 in Making our House a Home

Yesterday, I showed you the walk-in closet behind these lovely doors…Today, let me tell you about the doors, themselves I found this set of french doors on Craigslist for $45.Since we bought used doors, they didn’t come with the door jam. So we made one ourselves. It wasn’t too tough, [...]

Walk-in Closet

February 16, 2012 in Making our House a Home

It was one year ago yesterday that I posted this post about our basement bedroom: what it looked like when we moved in, the way we had been using it up until then, and the things about it that just weren’t working for us anymore. A few weeks later, I [...]

Some featured posts!

February 8, 2012 in Announcements

I have recently started “partying”…at other blogger’s link parties, that is. It has been fun!  (A link party is where one blogger hosts a “party” and other bloggers are able to “link up” their posts. There are LOTS of parties going on in the blog world …with hundreds of post [...]