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  • Painted Christmas Ornament
    Crafts,  Holidays

    Painted Christmas Ornaments

    This post contains affiliate links, please see the disclosure policy for more details. Every year our church makes personalized Christmas ornaments for all the kids. I usually am the one who comes up with what kind of ornaments we make. I was in Dollar Tree one day and noticed that they had started putting out their Christmas items. There were some clear plastic ornaments that intrigued me with all the possibilities. I bought a bunch of them and then started researching ways to decorate them. I found a lot of different ways and styles of decorating the ornaments. Most of them included painting the outside of the ornament, but I didn’t like…

  • How to Paint a Mural
    Crafts,  Life and Family

    How to Paint a Mural

    When my daughter was ready to move from a toddler bed to a big girl bed we decided to redo her entire room. We bought her a new twin size bed and I found some Tinkerbell border and a mural. We cleaned out her room, put up the border and got ready to put up the mural. I found out when I opened it that it wasn’t a real mural, it was a plastic one that was meant to be hung up temporarily for a party. I didn’t have enough border to finish the entire room and I had purchased it on clearance so I couldn’t go back and buy…

  • Deco Mesh Wreath
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    Deco Mesh Wreath

    I finally finished my first deco mesh wreath.  I have wanted to learn how to make one for quite some time.  I have been collecting some supplies for the last year or so, but had not done anything else.  Last month I finally decided that I really wanted to make one, so I started researching how to make one.  I ended up watching a lot of Facebook live videos.  Everyone seems to do the wreaths differently, there are some similarities, but everyone puts their own spin on them.  I had a 14″ wire wreath frame that I purchased at Dollar Tree and I had some white pipe cleaners left over…

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    Valentine Bookmarks

      A couple of years ago, when my daughter was in 4th grade, we made these personalized bookmarks for her class.  They are not hard, but it did take quite a bit of time to make so many.  We attached them to small goody bags through the hole for the ribbon using the twisty tie for the bag. I found some packages of printed Valentine card stock at the store. It got me thinking about what we could do with it. I came up with the bookmarks because her class was really into reading and they would be something they could use after the holiday was over.  I bought the…