by Melanie McQ | Sep 21, 2018 | Cheap Crafts, Fun
With summer coming to an end, we decided to put our old tarp (that we used as a slip and slide) to good use. We have made this water blob before, a few years ago and it was lots of fun. We used an old painters tarp, that I folded three times over to make it extra leak...
by Melanie McQ | Sep 18, 2018 | Cheap Crafts, DIY Birthday Party
We had a hard time trying to find invitations that went with our theme (Troll Hunters). Everything I showed my soon to be 8 year old was rejected, until we found these. They are little cave Crystals, so they worked perfectly with our other party decorations. We...
by Melanie McQ | Sep 4, 2018 | Crazy Hair Day
We love crazy hair day! I normally let my children pick, and my oldest decided to pick a bird cage. So after trying to figure out how in the word we should do this, we got started by going to a hardware store for some rubber coated wire. I then made a bird cage shape...
by Melanie McQ | Sep 4, 2018 | Crazy Hair Day
One of our favorite events at school and church is CRAZY hair day! We live for this day. We try to come up with the craziest things possible. For this one we made an apple tree. I did not take pictures of the process (sorry) but I will do my best to describe it step...
by Melanie McQ | Sep 4, 2018 | Christmas Ornaments, Crafts for Gifts, Polymer Clay Fun
I make ornaments for friends and family every year, and I was looking for something a little different. I found this idea on Pintrest, using rocks as owls on a wooden base. I loved the ideas of the little owls, but I decided to put them in a polymer clay ornament....