Craftiness Check Out Zoey’s Epic “Princess Skateboarder” Halloween Costume This year for Halloween Zoey chose to be Princess Skateboarder to save the town! As she's loved the video of Princess Skateboarder for several years I knew I needed to make it happen. Here's the last post showing the entire costume with links to how each part was made.
Craftiness How I Put Together a Stupendously Amazing Sail for Princess Skateboarder’s Skateboard With the last three Princess Skateboarder posts published I next wanted to share with you my favorite accessory I made for the costume. The sail and mast! Check it out here.
Craftiness Check Out the Great Princess Skateboarder Helmet I Made and What Accessories I Included to Go With It Over the last two weeks I shared how I made Zoey a Princess Skateboarder outfit and a properly sized prop skateboard for her Halloween costume this year. This week I'll follow the series with how I used a balloon, paper mache, and paint to make her a knight's helmet. Come check it out!
Craftiness Learn How I Made Princess Skateboarder’s Amazing Skateboard Last week I shared how I made Zoey a Princess Skateboarder costume for Halloween. This week I'm sharing how I added a really cool prop skateboard to it using cardboard, Mod Podge, and paint. Come check it out!
Sewing How I Easily Assembled an Outfit for Princess Skateboarder This year Zoey broke her two year pumpkin Halloween costume streak to become Princess Skateboarder! Here's how I've assembled the outfit so she looks the part.
Craftiness How to Find and Purchase Extra LEGO® Parts Through LEGO.com I've recently began looking into purchasing individual LEGO® bricks and have come across a great way to search by the LEGO® set number or the individual part or design number. I had no clue this existed and wanted to share it with you in case it can help with your own builds.
Craftiness A Comparison of the LEGO® Flower Bouquet, Tulips, and Roses When the LEGO® botanical collection came out I was most entranced by the flower bouquet and, later, the tulips and roses. I couldn't find anything online comparing the three kits so I decided, once I purchased and built them, to write my own.
Food & Dessert How I Changed up My Sheet Pan Pancakes to Make Them More Exciting Have you ever tried making pancakes in the oven? It's life-changing! Especially as it doesn't set off the smoke detector like when I make pancakes on the stove. Whether you've already made oven pancakes or not I figured I'd share how I change up my go to recipe to keep it exciting for my girls!
Science & Sensory Play Simple Ways to Easily Change up Your Playdough Time Are you looking to change up your playdough fun? Here are ways we've changed or added to our play.
Food & Dessert Incredibly Simple to Make Jello Cupcakes Are you wanting to make an incredibly simple cupcake or cake? Why not buy the mix for a white cake and a container of Jell-O for this amazingly moist dessert. I always top ours with whip cream and either sprinkles or berries depending on the occasion. Come check it out!
Sewing How I Easily Altered a Too Small Peppermint Swirl Dress by Converting It Into a Skirt Converted a dress into a skirt using the tutorial on the Candy Castle Patterns' website.
Sewing My Daughters’ Mask Command Center and How I Made It Are your kids starting school and you're wondering just how many masks they should have, how to bring them to school, and how to take them home? This is what I did and so far it's working great for me.
Food & Dessert Oh My Goodness Licorice! Here Is the Best Source of Licorice (and Other Flavors) That I've Found For the longest time I've been missing the candy allsorts... which lead me to Licorice.com. My whole family enjoys the new candies we've bought since then and as they have a referral code I realized I should probably share them with you too.
Sewing Easily Identify Clothing With Fabric Markers Or By Your Fabric Choice Do you have trouble identifying your children's clothing? Why not change them whether it's slightly or drastically! Here's what I've been doing over the last several years.
Product Review How to Quickly and Simply Tell Two Identical Pill Bottles Apart When Matt and I started using the same company for our probiotics I quickly realized we needed a simple idea to tell our bottles apart. I wanted to share this simple idea with you in case it can help you in some way.
Science & Sensory Play My Quick and Simple Towel Technique for Kitchen Sink Sensory Play Does your child love playing in the sink and you hate the mess? Does water always seem to pool within your under-sink cupboard? Why not add a simple towel? Here's how I've gained peace of mind with sink play.
Product Review Discover My Family's Preferred Shampoo and Conditioner Online I sometimes come across people looking for shampoo bar recommendations. As such I figured I'd share my family's go to shampoo and conditioner brands in case you're looking for something new.
Science & Sensory Play Create an Exciting Playdough World Then Explode a Volcano Does your child love dinosaurs or volcanoes? Are you looking for a fun sensory and science activity? We made playdough to create a scene to stomp dinosaurs through and then later turned it into a volcano! Come check it out.
Craftiness Cool the Kids Down With a Simple Ice Pack A couple weeks ago I bought some ice packs specifically to help keep the girls cool in bed during the hot weather. Whether you're currently going through a heatwave or planning for one in the future, you too may love the cooling presence of our frozen ice packs. Check it out here!
Craftiness A Simple Way to Keep Track of Your Tea's Steep Time and Temperature Are you always trying to remember what tea you're currently steeping. Do you frequently forget what temperature your tea needs to be infused at or for how long? Why not create a simple tracker so you don't need to remember. This is what I did.
Sewing Rebecca Page's Simple and Boxy Toronto Tee Are you looking for a simple tee? Have you checked out Rebecca Pages'? It came out back in 2019 but I find I keep reaching for mine and had to share it with you!
Technology How to Add Dynamic Constraints to Your Swift Project Are you needing a more dynamic solution to your constraints than the Xcode interface builder seems to be providing? Here's how I created two constraints in my Swift code and looped them with the front end for a dynamic solution to my problem.
Science & Sensory Play Incredibly Simple Play Bandages with Masking Tape Are you looking for something to keep your child(ren) entertained? Do you have masking tape on hand? Why not have them decorate strips of it and turn it into pretend play bandages. Maybe their toys are sick and need to be fixed? So many options!
Lunch "The No-Fuss Family Cookbook" Review Are you looking to change up your meals? I tried this new cookbook that recently came out and enjoyed so many of the recipes. Check out what I made and see if you like it too!
App Sandbox How to Debug and Solve an App Sandbox Related Issue Within the Xcode IDE Are you coding a project for your Apple device(s) and having inexplicable trouble getting a portion of it to work? Maybe the App Sandbox is blocking your code from executing properly? If so this is what I did to debug my issue and solve it!
