DIY Birthday Party
We simply don’t have much money to spend on birthday party decorations so I’m always looking for cheap or free diy party favors and more.
Polymer Clay Crafts
I’m always looking for crafts we can do at home that all ages can have fun with.
Cheap DIY Costumes
My kids always choose the crazies characters to be for Halloween. Buying costumes is just not an option.
Handmade Christmas
Lately I’m loving making Christmas ornaments!
Crazy Hair Mowhawk
We LOVE crazy hair day. I am so excited that this mohawk worked. I tried it last year, and it failed miserably. This time, I spent some time watching YouTube videos and got an education in how to do a real mohawk with long hair. Of all three YouTube videos I watched,...
DIY Ninjago Lord Garmadon Costume Preview
I have not had time to make the official "how to" post, but here is a preview of our Halloween Costumes this year. I made Lord Garmadon from scratch, every bit is hand made. The ninja costumes we found at a discount store at an after Halloween sale last year. I put...
Gingerbread Earrings
I saw something like this on Pinterest (where I get most of my ideas) and decided to make my own. The one with the bite taken out of the leg is my favorite. I used a mini cookie cutter to cut out the shapes. Then I took the edge of a cookie cutter to make it look like...
Snowman Earrings
These were super easy, and I think they turned out cute. I have collected some mini cookie cutters over the years, and I love them. They are the perfect size for earrings. I tried to take a few pictures along the way, to show how I made these step by step. I rolled...
Making Cardboard look like Wood
This is going to be a pretty short post, because this was pretty easy. It took very little time, and it looks just like wood. I took a piece of cardboard, cut it into strips longways (I did three), and then I hot glued them together. Seems counter productive, but it...
DIY Cardboard Cave Party Game
This was one of those projects that spiraled out of control. Initially, I was using one box to build this cave, but ended up with three. The end result is fantastic, but now I have a giant cave in my living room. We built this as a party game for a Troll Hunters...
Water Blob
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...
Cave Crystals Birthday Invitations
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...
Bird Cage 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...
Apple Tree for 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...
Christmas Owl Ornaments
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....
Branch Ornament
This ornament was kind of an experiment. I wanted to try to do pine needles, and I really like how realistic they look. First I made the branch, then started adding the pine needles one by one. I used an extruder to make a long string of skinny clay, then used a...