Elise has been upright and walking since July. And even before that, I have wanted to make her a growth chart. This has been one of those projects that I started months and months ago, so I’m super excited to finally be finished with it. This image of a wooden ruler backsplash has stuck with me […]
Halloween: DIY lamb costume
My thoughts are that you get two, maybe three Halloweens to pick your kid’s costume before they start requesting who knows what. This might be my last choice with Elise, so I wanted to make sure she was a cute animal with ears. Not being the greatest seamstress, I started with this easy idea from Martha Stewart, […]
Elise’s room: Furniture
I hope you don’t mind that I’m milking Elise’s room for a couple more posts. I’m really proud of it and there’s just so much in there to talk about! Like I mentioned before, the crib was the only main expenditure for the room. The rest of the furniture cost us very little. The dresser […]
How to make a shadowbox frame bank
This idea was inspired by a few different things. 1) This idea to turn a shadowbox frame into a bank. 2) I remember some charity coin donation box on the counter of a Dairy Queen where the goal was to land a coin in a shot glass. Unimportant detail: it was also full of water. […]
Handmade chunky toddler crayons
After last week’s failed attempt at making crayons, I decided to try again. I was able to reuse the half-melted blobs, and I was amazed that they retained some of the marbling from the different shades of crayon. I melted them in a cupcake pan (with paper liners doubled up) in the oven for about […]
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