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Crafts :: PomPom Fish
There is something really fun about making pompoms. I love to play with the yarn and make different color combinations in different sizes. They are so very cute to decorate a present with or to make a garland. I have even made colorful mobiles. You can leave them as is, or you can give them fins and eyes and turn them into fish. You will need: Yarn card stock scissors felt glue gun googly eyes at the end of the post is the ‘donut’ shape and the fins template to print out Cut 2 ‘donuts’ out of card stock. You want it to be a little stiff, so I would not recommend…
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Make Your Own Cosmetics: A New and Natural Alternative
There is a new product on the market that is so fun and fresh, your makeup will never be the same again. Make Your Own Cosmetics offers kits that allow you to create your own eye shadow using their specially formulated all-natural, cruelty-free ingredients. Do you ever see an amazing eye shadow color in the store and get home to find it just doesn’t fit you? Now you can completely customize your colors to get just the right shade. The paraben- and gluten-free mineral makeup is perfect for sensitive skin. The Colour Crush Eye Shadow Kit includes 9 eye shadow pigments plus a base, and everything you need to get…
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The Weirdest Foods You Can Grow In Your Garden
What really fires our children’s imagination is the extraordinary. Whether this week’s fixation is monsters, aliens, magical powers, superheroes or mythical lands, it’s always the strange and the super that inspires them. If you’re struggling to get them excited about their vegetables, then use this knowledge to your advantage: here are some right truly magical, and sometimes monstrous, fruits and veggies that you can easily grow in your back garden. The process of growing produce in itself can inspire a sense of wonder in children. It also helps to get them more involved in the food they eat: tomatoes grown from seeds are inherently more interesting than those in…
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Day 11 :: Get Your Home Decluttered in 28 Days: Master Bedroom
How are you doing in our Home Challenge where we are working at de-cluttering and redecorated our homes in 28 days? You can jump in any day you want, and don’t worry if you skip a day or two. This isn’t a contest – just a communal effort on all our behalf. I have needed to get our place de-cluttered for some time now as we had/have too much stuff! I am not quite that bad where I need to be on that hoarders show (well, maybe you should see my garage first before you decide that), but it was a matter of things kept coming in…
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Day Eight :: Get Your Home Delcuttered in 28 Days
Today on our Home Challenge adventure let’s work on our bathrooms. You know, the bathroom everyone uses downstairs or the one closest to your living room. That way, as we de-clutter and redecorate our homes, this room that gets a lot of attention from family and guests, will look sparkly and fun! The whole time we are working on this, keep looking at bathrooms in design magazines, Pinterest and even friends bathrooms and see what it is that you like about your favorites. Do you want a pared down bathroom or one that has little mementos from the kids. Or maybe a little of both! So let’s…
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Day Six :: Get Your Home Decluttered in 28 Days
Image courtesy of Pinterest. DAY SIX :: Gathering Items We Will Need to Start De-cluttering! Today let’s gather some things we will need so we can start on decluttering toys, books, unfinished projects, etc., that are probably providing some stress in your life – and who needs that?! I realized that I had done this already in my living room and probably had brought over 10 bags to our local Salvation Army. Many of you are at the beginning stages so let’s step back a bit and I’ll share what we did in the rooms we cleared out. We still have three main rooms to tackle so I feel your…
