Arts and Crafts

Did you ever have a pet rock? You hunted for that perfect rock–just the right size and shape. You painted it with great care. Maybe you made a shoebox house for it or found just the right place in...

We've all heard it: "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day." It's also the meal most of us skip the most, and I'm no different. I’ve always struggled with eating breakfast. I don’t like milk, I don’t like...

Between the glue sticks and the composition notebooks, we find our fellow moms. We will meet up again in the aisle alongside the colored folders. Together, we help decipher our supply lists and figure out which ones are the...

Christmas is my favorite time of the year. It’s the only time of the year when I can tolerate snow and cold, and I feel festive for a solid month. I want to spend my time with my friends...

I started scrapbooking in high school when the scrapbooks were big and bulky with gray pages and a shoelace-type string to hold it all together. (Am I dating myself here?!?) Nowhere did we see the phrases "acid-free," "lignin-free," "archival-quality,"...

I once watched a video online called The Story of Stuff, and although I didn’t have children at the time that I watched it, that 20 minute video totally changed the way I approached the purchasing of baby products...

You know how you see something on Pinterest and you think, "I could make that," but yet you never quite get around to actually doing it? Well, that's me most all of the time, but I decided since I...

For weeks I looked forward to taking my daughters to the apple orchard. I decided to keep it a secret until we were ready to go, so when my husband and I were getting them buckled in and told...

When Halloween is over, I can't wait to get my decorations put away and just have some simple Fall decor before the glisten and glow of Christmas decorations take over my house.  I have a white frame that I...

Growing up in the desert, I was surrounded by interesting looking plants. Most of them looked half dead, but they were unique and beautiful. After moving away from the desert I’ve developed an appreciation for the desert plants. I’ve...