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100 Easy Spring And Easter Crafts

Spring daffodil
Easter and Spring Easy Craft Ideas
It may still technically be winter, but I am thinking spring! It is time to get back into the craft room and work on some spring and Easter inspired rafts!  I joined the All Things Creative Team this month, to bring you more than ONE HUNDRED easy to do spring and Easter craft ideas.  Lots of great ways to decorate Easter eggs, lots of floral projects and plenty of pastels.  You have to check them out:

How to Make an Easy Marble Tilt Table Game

DIY marble wood tilt table game easy tutorial

Hello new friends! My name is Elisha from PneumaticAddict.com and I'm new around here. I'll be contributing cool DIY projects and trying to turn you all into Master Builders. Like my buddy Kim, I'm a girl who loves her power tools. You can usually find me in the garage, covered in sawdust or creating new, free building plans to share on my site.

Bacon, Asparagus and Parmesan Quiche

One Day You'll Miss Your Kids' Laundry - Free Printable

Monson Quote about Laundry Printable
Free Laundry Room Kids PrintableIf you are a mom of kids who still live at home, you are probably facing MOUNDS and MOUNDS of laundry every week.  Laundry is high on my list of my least favorite chores (well, not so much washing but, but folding it and putting it away!)  And now that my kids are heading back to school and starting all their fall sports, the amount of laundry they generate has definitely gone up!

But I recently came across this quote from Thomas Monson and I was struck by how close it hit home:
"If you are still in the process of raising children be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your surprise, miss them profoundly.” 

$25 Per Week Challenge: Week 3 Results

25 dollar per week budgeting challenge
RULES   ||   Week 1   ||   Week 2   ||   Week 3

I got really lucky during this third week of the $25 Per Week Budgeting Challenge. I was starting the week with less than $10 thanks to my overage last week, and we were in desperate need of both milk and gas. That alone would have eaten though the $10.   But as fortune would have it,  February is the month that my Costco rebate certificate arrives in the mail!

Scroll Saw Book Letters

Book Letters on a Scroll SawScroll Saw Book Art
I LOVED the theme of this month’s Power Tool Challenge: Your favorite power tool.   That was a no brainer for me.. since my favorite would be the one I”ve been using a lot lately.  My scroll saw!

Plus it is unusual to have a power tool challenge project that doesn’t involve ANY lumber.. but this month, my only materials were old thrift store books!  Yes books!
Thrift store hardcover books
These were $1/each at the thrift store, and using NOTHING more than my scroll saw, I ended up with some super cute book art that looked perfect on my office shelves:

Easy DIY Milkglass

Faux milk glass DIY from Thrift store Easy DIY Painted MilkGlass
I always loved the look of milk glass.   Country living recently had an article about it and I fell in love with these vases:
Milk glass 1 COuntry living
image: Brian Woodcock for Country Living
They are so pretty all clustered together in a group, with all the gorgeous textures.   It is so clean and pretty, but the real stuff can be pricey unless you get really lucky and stumble upon it at a yard sale or thrift store.  Lately it has been near impossible to find authentic and inexpensive milk glass at thrift stores.

$25 Per Week Challenge: Week 2 Results

25 dollar per week budgeting challenge
RULES   ||   Week 1   ||   Week 2   ||   Week 3
The send week of the $25 Per Week Budgeting Challenge was a lot tougher than the first week.  Maybe I was getting cocky, but this week we really started to feel the squeeze.  This week also contained Valentine’s Day, which meant I had to make some hard choices.

Our family has a 18 year tradition of going to Kentucky Fried Chicken on Valentine’s Day.  My husband and I spent our first Valentine’s Day at KFC when we couldn’t get seated at any other nice restaurant back when we were in collage.  It sorta became a running joke and we have done it every year since.  Now we take our kids (which means they have spent every Valentine’s days of their entire lives there!)

By Tuesday I didn’t have any money left in the budget, and we talked about not going to KFC, but we couldn’t pass it up.  So instead I decided to float the cost of dinner to next week’s budget.  Thank goodness KFC is really affordable and we didn’t have a tradition of $100 steak house dinners on Valentine’s Day!  Because of that we will still have a little money for next week!

Age Specific Grocery Store Budgeting Lessons for Kids

Make your kid a money genius
Tracking Pixel Teaching your kids how to budget
Earlier this month I was invited to read Beth Kobliner's book Make Your Kid a Money Genius (Even If You’re Not) in order to share my experience with my readers.  It turns out that the book was really great and it inspired me to get my kids involved in this year’s $25/week budgeting challenge.  Beth’s book reiterated my belief that setting and sticking to a strict budget should involve the entire family!

$25 Per Week Challenge: Week 1 Results

25 dollar per week budgeting challenge
RULES   ||   Week 1   ||   Week 2   ||   Week 3

I survived the first  7 days of the $25 Per Week Budgeting Challenge.  The first week is always the easiest since I’m starting off with a full fridge and pantry, gas in the car and plenty of perservenance.

Slow Cooker Bourbon and Brown Sugar Pulled Pork BBQ

Bourbon and Brown Sugar Pulled Pork BBQUse Cinnamon Bourbon and Brown Sugar to create your own pulled pork BBQ sauce in the slow cooker! It is so good!
As my regular readers already know, this month I have been trying to live off the food already in my pantry and freezer, and only spend $25 per week to keep my family of 5 afloat.

This is only week one and so far I’ve had no trouble, but I did run into one stumbling block.. I wanted to make pulled pork and I had NO bottled barbecue sauce in the house! OH THE HUMANITY!

No Sew Teacup Pin Cushion Tutorial

Hi friends! Alicia here again from Sew What Alicia. I am so excited to be here with you again with another fun tutorial! I know you expect me to teach you sewing skills but today I have something for your sewing room. Here is a no sew teacup pin cushion tutorial that you can make in 10 minutes with very few supplies! Scroll to the bottom for a full video tutorial.

A Quick and Easy No Sew Teacup Pincushion. She even has a full video tutorial showing you how to put it togethter | www.kimsixfix.com







 
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