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.
Technology How To Make a Custom Picker with Multi-Selection in SwiftUI I recently realized that there wasn't a simple way to create a SwiftUI Picker that allows for multiple selection. After much trial and error this is the solution I came up with! Hope it helps your coding adventures.
Craftiness The Year of Our Small and Simple Birthday Parties Over the years I've shared fun sensory activities and other ideas I used for my daughters' birthday parties. Although smaller I wanted to still share the girls' 2021 party with you in case it helps you plan your own.
Technology How I Easily Used My Custom Color in My SwiftUI Project I recently used one of my favorite colors on my website within my SwiftUI project. It was incredibly simple to do and I wanted to share it with you in case you want to do the same!
Sewing How I Sewed My Daughters’ a Simple Tooth Fairy Door Hanging I hadn't planned to make something special but I also didn't want the possibility of the tooth fairy waking my girls up in the middle of the night and so this simple door hanging was created to hold their newly freed tooth and make the process so much easier.
Food & Dessert Use Leftover Tomato Soup to Make an Amazing Pasta Sauce I've discovered that when you have amazing leftover tomato soup you can make it stretch further for the next meal by turning it into a tremendous pasta sauce.
Sewing Fix Your Holey Flats and Make Them Beautiful With Embroidery Floss! A couple months ago I looked down at my favorite flats and realized they had small holes. Since then I couldn't not see the holes and knew I needed to do something. One thing led to another and I now present my embroidery floss patched flats!
Craftiness New Year, New LEGO® Bonsai Tree With Christmas over it was time to change up my LEGO® bonsai tree. I had bought some special white and gold bricks just for that purpose and was eager to jump in.
Sewing My 2021 Sewing Challenge: Skipped, Rejected, and Came Out Feeling Good Although I didn't sew as consistently as previous years I did keep track of what I sewed through the 52 Week Sewing Challenge... if you want a recap or just want some ideas based on what I did here's my 2021 sewing overview!
