Finding a Hobby that Helps you De-stress and Relax

Image by patti haskins via Flickr I’m a firm believer that everyone needs a hobby of some kind. We need ways to occupy our mind, relieve stress, and express our creativity. When I say creativity, I don’t necessarily mean that you have to pain masterpieces. Even a hobby such as gardening can be an expression [...]

Fun Ideas for Fall Crafts

I love fall! The colors of the leaves turning shades of golden orange and brown is just gorgeous. The gorgeous fall colors can inspire some wonderful fall craft ideas for your children as well. Here are a few ways you can take advantage of all nature has to offer this fall. 1. Leaf Tracings Start [...]

Almost a Scarf

I had the opportunity this weekend to spend time listening to the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. My plan was to take notes while I listened to help me pay attention. After missing the first 30 minutes because I was packing stuff up to be taken to the [...]

Look At My Space #5

I am back at my desk this week, and I feel like I should mention something real quick so as not to feel like a total liar. While my desk is pretty clean and organized in the picture below, it has not looked like this for the last two weeks since I got it clean. [...]

Crafting in the Kitchen

I’ve talked before about wanting to teach my daughters some useful crafts in addition to the arts and crafts stuff we do most of the time. One of those useful crafts is cooking and baking, and here is one of the first things I am going to teach them to make: Don’t they look delicious! [...]

Look At My Space #4

The bad news is I’m a day late posting. The good news is my Swiffer got a really good workout. So, this is what the end of my bedroom that I use for craft storage looked like when I started: If you look close, you can see that the end-tables I got made it back [...]

Look At My Space #3

As a reminder, this is what my space looked like 2 weeks ago: And this is what my space looks like as of right now: Look at all that space I have to work in! Yippee! Parts of my organizing project that are already done: Table cleared off End tables cleaned out Space in my [...]

Look At My Space #2

Welcome to the second installment of Look At My Space. I appreciate you stopping by. Last week I showed you my own disorganized space. Knowing that I would have to check in this week made me want to work. Unfortunately, it was a holiday weekend, so actually getting anything done was nearly impossible. My week went [...]

Paper Beads

Earlier this week, when I posted pictures of my messy crafting space, you may have seen this little beauty on the floor next to my table. This particular blue box was just delivered earlier this week and was given a spot next to my front door. Junk mail is tossed in right as it comes [...]

Look At My Space

My husband and I were talking the other night and he brought up a really good point. I have boxes and boxes of scrapbook stuff, and I do nothing with it. Scrapbooks and passing on stories used to be my passion. Now I mostly talk about the importance of scrapbooks, but I do nothing about [...]

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