How to make easy DIY travel sized sewing kits from pot holders.
I am always looking for fun easy homemade gift ideas. I recently ran across this idea for making travel sized sewing kits from pot holders and just had to make one! These sewing kits are a great holiday gift idea and they are also perfect for packing in shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child. These…
Read More DIY Travel Sized Sewing KitsQ: I have 105 stuffed animals that I want to display. Any ideas? Tip #1: My daughter had many stuffed animals that she didn’t want to part with yet her room was too small to display all of them. So my husband put a display shelf about 12 to 15 inches from the ceiling to…
Read More How to Display Stuffed AnimalsThe holidays are approaching fast, and this time of year many people are starting to think about holiday gift giving. One way to send a gift during the holidays is to send a care package to a friend or family member that lives far away. What better way to show someone that you care than…
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How to create a weekly menu plan. A few minutes of weekly menu planning every week can save you time and money too.
Meal time can be a stressful time of the day. It’s not easy to figure out what to make for dinner every night, especially when you are busy working and caring for your family too. Preparing meals doesn’t have to be stressful. Planning meals ahead of time takes a lot of the guesswork out of…
Read More How to Create a Weekly Menu PlanIf you’re short on space in the bathroom, there are a number of ways you can optimize the space you do have to work with. Here are some ideas that have worked great for our family: – My daughter and I don’t have a lot of jewelry, but we keep the jewelry we do have…
Read More Bathroom Organizing IdeasI love to have things organized. My children’s toys are organized in lots of storage bins, both small and large, organizing everything from Potato Head pieces, Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys, puzzles, to dress-up costumes. Recently, however, something has been creeping into our home and starting to take over the entire house…Legos! At least Legos are…
Read More How to Organize Lego Instruction ManualsA daily chore chart is a huge help when you are overwhelmed with all your housekeeping chores. Our family’s cleaning and chore schedules have varied widely over the years. In two short years we have gone from having one teenager in the home to having two teenagers and two toddlers. In the past I have…
Read More Daily Chore ChartWhile making my weekly rounds of yard sales with my mom and daughter, I ran across the neatest little album that was sold by Hallmark many years ago–it is an organizer for greeting cards! Inside the album there were pages with pockets to hold your greeting cards until you are ready to use them. There…
Read More Greeting Card OrganizerHello Again, Today we will be talking about meal planning. Meals are one of the most memorable aspects of any camping trip and if one meal is a disaster you will never hear the end of it. I will show you how to avoid spending half the day in the kitchen and still deliver a…
Read More Campsite Meal Planning and RecipeI know, I know, you’re thinking a journal for the kitchen? It seems like the busier we get the more forgetful we are. And getting older has something to do with it, right? Whatever the reason, a kitchen journal can be a useful tool for keeping your home and family running smoothly on a day-to-day…
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