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It’s Wrapping Week 2016, Y’all!

December 20, 2016 By Katrina

It’s Wrapping Week 2016, Y’all!

Happy almost Christmas! Are your cookies baked? Gifts ordered? Everything wrapped?!? I’ve been counting the days until Beany’s school break, and now that it’s finally here, we’re in full-on Christmas mode. Woo hoo! Both kids are super duper excited, making gifts, constructing (and deconstructing) gingerbread houses and writing letters. They’ve visited with Santa twice this…

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Filed Under: DIY, Top DIY Tagged With: cars, Christmas, DIY, holiday, trees, wrapping, wrapping ideas, wrapping week

Happy Halloween from the Pink Bunny Flower Princess and Captain America!

October 31, 2016 By Katrina

Happy Halloween from the Pink Bunny Flower Princess and Captain America!

Happy Halloween from the Pink Bunny Flower Princess and Captain America! These two are beyond excited for a night of spooky fun and way too much candy. Per her usual, Beany picked a costume this year that’s as pink as it is personalized. Actually, the pink faux fur vest was the inspiration behind the whole ensemble….

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Filed Under: DIY, Top DIY Tagged With: bunny, Captain America, costumes, DIY, family, Halloween, kids, parenting, preschooler, toddler

DIY Painted Wooden Letters

August 14, 2015 By Katrina

DIY Painted Wooden Letters

It’s DIY time, you guys! Jared was at a conference last week for work, so that meant I had two kids in need of distractions. Thankfully, their grandma was here for a visit, but even grandmas need breaks (have you tried sitting on the floor for three hours playing Legos? Ooph!). We rolled into Target in…

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Filed Under: DIY, Top DIY Tagged With: craft, DIY, kid room, kids, kids rooms, nursery, paint, painting, preschoolers, toddlers, wooden letter

Wrapping Week 2014: Magic wands

December 12, 2014 By Katrina

Wrapping Week 2014: Magic wands

It seems like every year for Wrapping Week, I plan and buy supplies for four ideas and then end up making the last one pretty last minute, pieced together from the scraps and bits left behind by the first four presents of the week. Some years it works out better than others, but I think…

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Filed Under: DIY, Top DIY Tagged With: Christmas, crafts, DIY, fairy wand, gift wrap, gifts, holiday, holidays, magic wand, paper, scrapbook, wand, wrapping, wrapping ideas, wrapping paper

Boy and girl shared nursery: Blue + pink = happy

May 20, 2014 By Katrina

Boy and girl shared nursery: Blue + pink = happy

Beany’s nursery in our North Carolina apartment was a labor of love in a major way. I had a very clear vision of what I wanted the room to look like, and I spent months choosing fabric, sewing pillows and curtains, picking out furniture and putting it all together. Even with the mile-long to-do list,…

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Filed Under: Adventures in decorating, Baby bliss, DIY, Life, Top DIY Tagged With: Adventures in Decorating, baby, Baby bliss, baby room, blue, boy and girl shared bedroom, decorating, DIY, family, home, home decor, life, parenting, pink, shared nursery, toddler, toddler room

Doll skirt DIY and a note to younger me

March 22, 2013 By Katrina

Doll skirt DIY and a note to younger me

Yesterday, with deadlines looming and work to be done, I spent the morning sewing a new skirt for Beany’s beloved Bunny, the doll whose been the favorite naptime, bedtime, all-time companion for more than a year but whose received affection — and countless trips through the washing machine — was beginning to take its toll…

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Filed Under: Baby bliss, DIY, Top DIY Tagged With: Baby bliss, Beany, bunny, DIY, doll clothes, doll skirt, sewing, skirt tutorial

For Beany’s cookie jar: DIY felt cookie tutorial

February 22, 2013 By Katrina

For Beany’s cookie jar: DIY felt cookie tutorial

In my very favorite episode of Little House on the Prairie, a snow-covered Mr. Edwards bursts through the door of the Ingalls family home on their first Christmas in Kansas. There’s a blizzard blowing outside, and Mr. Edwards looks more like a frosty Santa Claus than his usual grizzly man self. Although I could replay…

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Filed Under: Baby bliss, DIY, Life, Top DIY Tagged With: babies, Baby bliss, Christmas gifts, crafts, DIY, felt cookies, felt food, handmade gift ideas, parenting, presents, sewing, toddler, toddler gift, toys, tutorial

That’s so Mary Margaret: Easy DIY wreath

February 18, 2013 By Katrina

That’s so Mary Margaret: Easy DIY wreath

While we were back visiting family in Missouri for Christmas, Jared and I started watching the first season of Once Upon a Time on Netflix. Only a few episodes in, I began to develop a mega-size obsession with all things Mary Margaret (Snow White’s “real world” self in the town of Storybrooke, Maine). I loved…

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Filed Under: Adventures in decorating, DIY, Life, Top DIY Tagged With: Adventures in Decorating, DIY, fabric, fabric flowers, Mary Margaret, Once Upon a Time, reuse, wreath, yarn, yarn wreath

Lantern DIY: Let there be light!

May 13, 2011 By Katrina

Lantern DIY: Let there be light!

I joined a Pinterest a little more than a month ago and have been slowly falling in love with it ever since. Does anyone else use the site? Seriously, it’s crazy nifty and can easily fill hours and hours of your time with great ideas and tons o’ eye candy. I’ve started a few boards,…

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Filed Under: Adventures in decorating, Top DIY Tagged With: Adventures in Decorating, DIY, DIY lantern, easy projects, lanterns, outdoor lanterns, pinterest, projects

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