Food & Dessert Ada’s Exciting Eighth Birthday Party at Home Like with Zoey's party last summer we decided to also host Ada's party at our home. Here's what we ended up doing!
Miscellaneous Welcome... And a Quick Word on My Website Migration Quick note on my website migration. Welcome!
Food & Dessert How We Made a Simple and Delicious Ice Cream Cake For Ada's birthday this last summer we ended up making our own ice cream cake. It turned out great and I can totally see doing the same for future birthdays and maybe even parties!
Technology How to Run a Bash Script From Anywhere on Your Apple Computer Over the years I've created several Bash scripts that I realized would be far easier to use if I could run them from several different places on my machine without moving the script itself. After learning how to do that for myself I had to share process with you!
Sewing What I Made During the 2022 Sewing Challenge Although this year I sewed much less I decided to still continue my trend of posting about it so here's all of my quick fixes, articles of clothing, and the kids' epic Halloween costumes.
Craftiness Learn How I Easily Attached My Painting to My Kitchen Backsplash I was able to attach my painted canvas to my kitchen's tiled backsplash using Command™ picture hanging strips and I wanted to share how simple it was with you in case you want to do the same.
Craftiness Easily Make Your Stickers Last Longer, Moveable, and Sturdier by Turning Them Into Magnets A while ago I had to peel some stickers off of my computer monitor which made me sad as I wasn't sure if I could ever replace them. This then led to me converting these stickers into magnets! I'm so glad I did and I wanted to share how simple it was in case you wanted to do the same!
reMarkable Frequently Asked Questions I’ve Seen Around About the reMarkable Over the last year or I've seen several reMarkable template related questions popup on Facebook user groups and each time I debate creating a post that answers all those questions. I finally decided to just make it and here's the result!
Science & Sensory Play Zoey’s Random but Fun Sixth Birthday Here's a quick glimpse at what we did for both Zoey's sixth birthday party and some of her actual birthday this year.
reMarkable How I Solved My SSH Connection Error: No Matching Host Key Type Found After a computer update I could no longer connect to my reMarkable via SSH as I had an error saying: "unable to negotiate with host: no matching host key type found". This is how I fixed the issue.
Craftiness Update to My Simple and Quick Dresser Drawer Fix A while back I shared how I fixed some dresser drawers using my hot glue gun. Since then one drawer bottom has started sagging again. I wanted this fix to last a bit longer so ultimately I upgraded my previous plan using a cereal box.
Technology Update to "My Custom Picker With Multi-Selection in SwiftUI" - Now With Images! I've upgraded my custom multi-selection picker, in SwiftUI, to now be customizable using a struct rather than string array. This means it works for images... and whatever else you want to add.
Craftiness Simple Ways We Got Our Backpacks School Worthy This year for school we're using the same backpacks as last year. Before school could start, though, we needed to make some customizations and quick fixes.
Food & Dessert Super Simple Rainbow Colored Angel Food Cupcakes This year for Zoey's birthday party we took an angel food box mix and made it custom with some food dye, whip cream, and sprinkles. Everyone loved it and I had to share this super simple hack with you.
Sewing An Upgrade on My Girls’ Home Sewn Swimsuits I sewed up some new swimming suits for my girls this summer and in doing so tried out a new way to attach the neckband.
Craftiness Our Incredibly Simple "Bunny Ears" Hairstyle This year Zoey had a Zany Hair Day at school and, on her own, came up with the idea of bunny ears. After talking it over with her this simple but perfect idea was born. She absolutely adored them and I wanted to share it in case it helps any of you out too.
Sewing Simple Towel To Bath Mat I've recently replaced my bath towels but regretted not having a fully matching set anymore. Thus I came up with a super simple solution, using my serger, to make the entire bathroom to match once again!
reMarkable Which Version of the reMarkable’s Templates Are Emailed Out? A while back I had a thought that led to me wondering "if you made a custom template with differing associated SVG and PNG files... which would you see when exporting it?" I had to find out so I concocted this little experiment and here are my results!
Craftiness Crazy Hair Day - This Time With a Mermaid Although the end of the school is fast approaching I figured I'd share last years Crazy Hair Day creation in case you're looking for some ideas. It included floral wire, a mermaid toy, ponytail ties, and some clips.
reMarkable Simple Script to Help Backup Your reMarkable Back when I first bought my reMarkable I realized there might come a day when I'd need to recover the files on it. Luckily, I haven't needed to yet... but that precaution led to creating this script which makes backing it up so much easier.
Technology How to Quickly Combine PDF Files on Your Mac Have you ever wanted to combine two PDF files together on your Mac computer? I have. And here's how I did it using the Preview app that you should already have!
Food & Dessert Easily Mix Two Different Types of Pasta Are you needing to make a large batch of pasta and only have mismatched bags left in your pantry? Why not combine two different ones together? My kids love when the pot contains several different types of pasta at once!
Sewing Learn How I Created a Captain Marvel-Inspired Emblem for a Skirt A while ago I converted my daughter's grown out peppermint swirl dress into a fun twirly skirt. During the process I needed to cover up a slit at the top of the skirt and was inspired by Captain Marvel's logo.
Food & Dessert Easy Saint Patrick's Day Themed Shamrock Sheet Pan Pancakes Are you debating what you can do to celebrate the upcoming St. Patrick's Day? Why not make simple shamrock shaped pancakes?
Food & Dessert Use a Canning Jar to Easily Steep Your Tea I used a simple canning jar to steep my tea and had to share it with you. Made saving the extra simpler too.
