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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

Wrapping Week 2012: Put a Snowflake on It

December 6, 2012 By Katrina

I love a pretty package and will happily sit on the floor of my living room, surrounded by piles of paper, ribbon and tape, until every last present is wrapped, but I realize that spending two hours on a Tuesday night crafting intricate bows out of shopping bags isn’t everyone’s idea of a good time….

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Filed Under: DIY Tagged With: crafts, DIY, DIY gift wrap, DIY wrapping paper, gift wrap, gift wrap ideas, holiday, holidays, paper crafts, snowflakes, wrapping, wrapping paper ideas

Wrapping Week 2012: Martha-Inspired Shopping Bag Bows

December 5, 2012 By Katrina

Wrapping Week 2012: Martha-Inspired Shopping Bag Bows

It seems the holidays just aren’t the holidays without a little Martha Stewart-inspired craftiness, and this wrapping idea from the woman in blue was actually months in the making. Back in early spring, I watched as Martha and a fellow crafter fashioned amazingly fancy-looking bows of out stiff paper shopping bags on an episode of…

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Filed Under: DIY Tagged With: bows, Christmas, crafts, DIY, eco-friendly, eco-friendly wrapping, gift wrap, holiday, holidays, Martha Stewart, recycle, reuse, shopping bag bows, shopping bags, wrapping paper

Wrapping Week 2012!

December 3, 2012 By Katrina

On Christmas morning, there are two very different kinds of people who gather around the tree. There are those who rip open presents and tear off bows, with a laser-like focus on what’s inside. And there are those who peel off tape, untie ribbons and pry back paper with the care of a professional present…

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Filed Under: DIY Tagged With: Christmas, crafts, DIY, DIY wrapping paper, gift wrap, gift wrapping ideas, holiday, wrapping, wrapping paper ideas, wrapping week, wrapping week 2012

A pumpkin for punkins: Felt jack-o-lantern DIY

October 16, 2012 By Katrina

The words baby-proof and kid-friendly never meant as much as they did the day Beany became mobile. Suddenly all those pretty things that we carefully placed around the house in just the perfect spots had to be put up higher — or put away entirely. Why don’t they make home décor items that look 100 percent…

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Filed Under: Baby bliss, DIY Tagged With: Baby bliss, baby jack-o-lantern, baby-friendly, crafts, DIY, easy projects, felt, felt jack-o-lantern, felt pumpkin, Halloween, Halloween crafts, jack-o-lantern, sewing

Spookily awesome Halloween décor

October 5, 2012 By Katrina

It’s October! Yahoo! Do you know what that means? No, I’m not talking about pumpkin spice lattes at Starbucks (though that is one of the highlights of the season, no doubt). I’m talking about the official start of seasonal decorating. Hooray for having an excuse to bedazzle the house in twinkle lights and break out…

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Filed Under: DIY Tagged With: cobwebs, crafts, decorating, DIY, DIY poster, easy DIY projects, Halloween, Halloween decor, Halloween decorating, Halloween decorations, Halloween DIY, pumpkins, seasonal decorating

A DIY for the ’do — the baby’s ’do, that is

March 22, 2012 By Katrina

Typically, I wouldn’t consider watching hair grow a very fun activity. In fact, it’s probably ranked somewhere in between waiting for paint to dry and waiting for water to boil. Sooo slow and soooooo boring. As a new parent, however, a whole bunch of seemingly mundane tasks are suddenly way more exciting with a baby…

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Filed Under: Baby bliss, DIY Tagged With: baby accessories, Baby bliss, crafts, DIY, DIY baby headband, DIY headbands, easy DIY, hair, headbands, pinterest, projects

DIY Valentine cards, takeout style

February 14, 2012 By Katrina

One of the great hardships of my life is my ridiculous allergy to soybean. Yes, you read that right. I am allergic to all things soy, which can be quite a predicament when it comes to anything prepackaged, anything doused in vegetable oil and anything trendy like tofu or edamame. Most unfortunately, it means that…

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Filed Under: DIY Tagged With: crafts, DIY, easy projects, fortune cookie, fortune cookie Valentine's, holiday crafts, paper, Valentine's Day

Happy New Year! Hats off to 2012!

January 2, 2012 By Katrina

Happy New Year to all! I hope you rang in 2012 with a bang — or at the very least a spirited thump. Amazingly, despite sleep deprivation and my Bean-induced need to revert back to my childhood bedtime as of late, I made it all the way to midnight. Woo hoo! Rather than spend our…

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Filed Under: DIY Tagged With: 2012, crafts, DIY, DIY hats, holidays, New Year's, New Year's Eve, party hats

Dear Martha

December 9, 2010 By Katrina

A few nights ago, I watched Martha Stewart’s Holiday Open House on Hallmark Channel (yep, that’s top-notch primetime viewing, pals), which perfectly topped my nearly month-long love affair with all things Martha. Between new episodes of The Martha Stewart Show and daily holiday reruns of Martha Stewart Living, I’m on serious Martha overload (I realize…

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Filed Under: Domestic bliss Tagged With: Christmas list, crafts, Martha Stewart, sewing, wish list

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