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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…
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35 Summer Fun Activities for Kids
We are already 2 weeks into summer here, I know some schools are still going but we are well into our summer plans. Devin spent the first week training for his lifeguard position, then helped with Special Olympics. He stopped at home for one day to wash clothes and work the opening day at the park before leaving for Boys State last week. He is now back home and back to work and football practice which will take up most of his summer. Shaylee and I have spent a lot of time cleaning the house and started getting ready for a yard sale. She had a sleep over with her…
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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…
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Organizing my Daughter’s Bedroom
My daughter has a really small bedroom (8’8″ x 10’4″) so keeping it organized has always been a problem. When she was younger, of course I did the organizing and purging when she was not at home. As she got older, I wanted her to take more of a responsibility for her room. I have tried all kinds of ways to get her to clean and organize over the years, but nothing really worked. She is very sentimental and never wants to get rid of anything. She had way too much stuff to keep organized in that small room. While I was working full-time, her room got out of control…
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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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