This time of year you see some pretty spectacular wreaths out there–they get really really fancy!! But how the heck do you do that yourself and not have it fall apart??? It’s actually a lot simpler than it looks. Watch the video for a good primer on how to make a wreath. It’s wreath basics…
Gingerbread Tablescape with The Cricut Maker
This gingerbread tablescape post is brought to you by Cricut. Affiliate links included. All thoughts, feelings, ideas and designs are my own. Setting the Christmas tables is a fun part of decorating for the season. This year we are gearing up to have another gingerbread decorating party at our house, so we’re setting a pretty…
Send These Fresh, Hand-rolled Bagels as a Gift to Anyone!
This post about bagel gift bag ideas is sponsored by New Yorker Bagels. All thoughts, feelings and ideas are my own. About this time of year, we all start scratching our heads and thinking up things to give the important people in our lives that take care of the hard stuff for us, like teachers…
Dollar Tree Christmas Craft: Kid’s Lego Wreath
Your local Dollar Tree store is a great source for supplies for fun Christmas crafts! Today I am participating in a Dollar Tree Christmas craft party with some talented bloggers around the web, and my contribution is this super cute Lego Wreath just for kids! I can’t tell you how excited my son was to…
Custom Christmas Shirts for Toddlers and Infants
This Christmas, I’m SOOOOO enjoying being an auntie. I now have three nephews and three nieces to spoil, and lots of babies to pinch cheeks. All these new little family members means I am able to make some custom Christmas shirts in toddler and infant size! You can use these as jumping off points for…
Gluten-Free Holiday Side Dish: Garlic Green Beans
Finding a gluten-free holiday side dish or two sometimes means making a change or two to a recipe to make it diet acceptable during the holidays. Creamy casseroles are a little bit of work to make gluten-free, so I tend to steer clear of those and make lighter dishes. Green bean casserole was long a…
Gluten-Free Holiday Side: Sweet Potato Soufflé
Navigating the holidays with guests or family members with dietary needs gets tricky. In our house, there are several of us with gluten issues, so we make almost all gluten-free holiday side dishes. Besides the bread that most of the gluten eaters demand I put on the table, everything is safe to eat for everyone….
Gluten-Free Holiday Side Dish: Andouille Sausage Stuffing
It’s about that time again where we start digging out the traditional recipes for our holiday meals and start preparing for the feast! Our family recipes need a bit of altering because we have a gluten-free family member, namely me, so I set out to make everything we usually do, but so they still taste…
Six Genius Ideas to Get your Home Holiday Ready
This post is sponsored by Babbleboxx.com. All these holiday ready ideas and thoughts are my own. There is an endless enjoyable stream of company to host, guests to serve and family to create memories with during the holidays. Most of these memories get made at home, so we tend to put a lot of…
Cup full of cheer custom coffee mug for Christmas
This is a paid partnership with The J.M. Smucker Company and Danone. My opinions and ideas for this cup full of cheer custom Christmas mug are my own. There is really nothing like a perfect cup of coffee. Steaming hot, full of caffeine with a touch of creamer and preferably served in a snarky sort…
How to Put Cricut Vinyl on Wood with Your EasyPress 2
Just about everything Cricut produces is amazeballs–their products are really something you didn’t know you needed in your life so badly until you have them. Especially when you learn to do new things like how to put Cricut vinyl on wood with your EasyPress 2 to make cool signs for Christmas (or any other…
Boo Your Neighbors Halloween Piñata from Recyclables
fiI do love a fun bucket full of candy to “boo your neighbors.” But it’s even more fun to boo your neighbors with something creatively different like a mini Halloween Piñata. Creatively different does not equal hard to do or crazy expensive. In fact, these mini piñatas were made from recycled cracker boxes, tape and…
Let’s Get Lit Holiday T-Shirt Designs
Welcome to another lovely edition of Craft Lightning! This month’s project is a 15 minute or less holiday t-shirt project, or in the case of this design, Let’s Get Lit holiday t-shirt designs. I made shirts not only for Christmas, but also one for Hanukkah and have them all for you here as free holiday…
Cricut Maker vs. Explore Air 2: How to Make a Cake Topper
When you work with Cricut so much, you get asked a lot of questions from curious crafters. The most common one is, “Why do I need a Cricut Maker over a Cricut Explore Air 2?” Yeah, it’s more expensive, but you’re getting a lot LOT more machine for those dollars. One of those spectacular differences…
How to Cut Chipboard with the Cricut Maker : WICKED Sign
For the bad unicorn trunk or treat project, I made a big sign out of chipboard that spelled out “WICKED.” And it was wicked cool. I know I keep going on and on about my Cricut Maker, but MAN, it is neat. All those letters were cut out of chipboard with the adaptable tool knife…
Trunk or Treat Ideas: Bad Unicorns
Unicorns are so perfect all year, except maybe at Halloween when they are just a little bit naughty. This year, our trunk or treat ideas are all about BAD UNICORNS. They’ve got a little bit of a punk rock style, some mischievous grins and some tricks up their sleeves, making them perfect for the teenage…
Halloween Unicorn Lantern DIY
These days when I need something fast (but professional looking) I whip out my Cricut Maker to do the cutting part for me, like I did for this Halloween Unicorn Lantern. It’s another Craft Lightning project–meaning you can complete this whole project in 15 minutes or less. With a bit of hot glue to bring…
Bake Sale Recipe Winner: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes
If you’ve ever had to participate in a bake sale, you know there is more to it then just whipping up your famous Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cupcake recipe…you’ve got to package them up as well! Not to worry, I’m here to help. If you don’t have your very own famous bake sale recipe, you’re…
Easy DIY Fall Banner
Little rows of buntings are so cute hung over a dessert table (like seen here in my pumpkin pie martini set), or front of a table, or even just hung up on the wall to look pretty. Since we’ve rounded the corner into September I feel we can officially call it fall and start making…
DIY Custom Napkins with the Cricut EasyPress 2
Cricut has a new kid in town–the EasyPress 2. The first EasyPress was so spectacular, why do we need another one you say? Because this one is pocket sized. At 6×7, it makes completing crafty projects like the DIY custom napkins I’m about to show you all the easier. With a tool to match any…
Happy Pumpkin Spice Everything Free Printable Art
It’s that time of year where you can almost smell the pumpkin spice on the air! The heat is blessedly about to break for cooler weather and pumpkin spice everything is about to make its appearance. Even in home decor. Because really–can you pass up a snarky framed typographic print that celebrates pumpkin spice? I…
Pumpkin Pie Martini Recipe for a Fall Party
Now that fall is upon us, we can officially break out in our happy pumpkin spice dance. Because, y’all, it’s pumpkin spice EVERYTHING season. I’m not exaggerating when I tell you even my mechanic offers pumpkin spice oil changes. Why is this pumpkin spice stuff everywhere? Because pumpkin spice is awesome, that’s why. Even International…
Fifteen Back to School Hacks
Back to school has already happened for my area, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t still getting in the groove of the school year! Our family tackling the first year of middle school so we’ve got new challenges as well as getting through all the “normal” back to school stuff and needed a few of…
Iced Coffee Bar Party Ideas
This post is sponsored by my partner, International Delight. All thoughts, feelings and ideas are my own. #CreamerNation #InternationalDelight Coffee bars at parties are easy to love. Except maybe when we’re in the dead of summer and it’s a bazillion degrees outside. Solution? Put out an ICED coffee bar at your next party to keep…
First Day of School Free Printable Sign for Last Minute Moms
My kids have been using this first day of school free printable sign for the last 6 years. I love it. I love that I see it pop up in my friends’ pictures on Facebook this times of year. But I also love to change things up every once in awhile, so I have a new…
Top Ten Road Trip Activities for Kids Unplugged
This post is sponsored by The Kraft Heinz Company, General Mills, PepsiCo and Publix. All thoughts, ideas for unplugged road trip activities for kids and feelings are my own. I really do love Publix anyway, so writing for them is a treat! Are we there yet??? Those words coming from the backseat are enough to…
10 Things You Didn’t know the Cricut Maker Could Do for Home Decor
Cricut is sponsoring this post all about things you didn’t know the Cricut Maker could do for Home Decor. I am deeply in love with my Cricut products, and all thoughts, feelings and ideas below are my own. Affiliate links are in this post. They cost you nothing, and help keep this content free. The…
Quick Burlap Beach Decor Frame Craft
It’s time for another Craft Lightning craft project! This month’s topic: burlap. It’s a material that will always be on trend. Today I’m using burlap to do a bit of beachy decorating to make a quick burlap beach decor frame project. It’s going to take about 5 minutes to do. If you have a store-bought…
Caramel Popcorn Sundaes and the New Hotel Transylvania 3 Movie
This post about caramel popcorn sundaes is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate Media Group® and Snyder’s-Lance Inc. , but all my opinions are my own. #pmedia #Pop4HT3 https://my-disclosur.es/OBsstV Monsters are people, too! That’s the theme of one of my kids’ favorite movies of all time, Hotel Transylvania. Imagine the excitement…
Space Party Activities
The space birthday party for our little friend Kealin was such a success mostly due to the fun STEM space party activities that we had to keep the kids busy while we celebrated. You can totally pull a STEM party off, but it does require a little bit of advanced planning. There are bits and…
Mission Control T-shirt and Future Astronaut T-shirt
One of the things that makes parties look a little extra special is when you can create wardrobe for the birthday kid and the party throwing adults. At our space party (see it here), we made some really fun mission control t-shirts and future astronaut t-shirts to match our event. Mission control T-shirt how to…
Astronaut Space Party Ideas
It’s always fun to help plan a party for my dear little friends, especially when they have such interesting ideas about what they want for their parties! Miss Kealin was super excited to get the American Girl Doll of the Year this year who was an astronaut. This inspired her to want a space…