Crafts, ideas, recipes and printables to help you celebrate holidays and festive events.
Doctor Who is an iconic BBC TV show that recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. The show has loyal (crazy?) fans that know every detail of the show and the characters. One of the interesting twists to the show is that the main character, the Doctor, can regenerate and because of this has been played by a slew…
I fondly remembering decorating cookies with my mom when I was young. It’s a tradition I’ve passed on to my children. Although, truth be told, I usually rope my mom into supervising the decorating and I can just flit in and out of the kitchen oohing and aahing over the beautiful decorated cookies. This year,…
Last week I showed you how I made 10 upcycled fabric gift bags for $1 from a repurposed thrifted table cloth. Today I want to show you what I made with the bed skirt that I found on the same day I found the tablecloth. I found this white bed skirt at the thrift…
It makes me doubly happy when I can repurpose 2 items into a crafty gift. Last year I showed you how I repurpose Christmas cards and turn then into adorable gift tags {here}. I love giving these gift tags as gifts and want to give them in a cute package. Of course, I…
Budget-friendly craft perfect for kids or beginning crafters. Use these Snowman gift treat boxes as decoration or gift boxes.
Make pretty reusable felt gift bags with an easy tutorial perfect for a beginning sewing project. Can also be made with fabric glue.
I enjoy giving homemade baked good to neighbors and friends as gifts this time of year. I’m always looking for cute ways to gift wrap the treats. Well, you know me, gift packaging is just an opportunity for an easy upcycled project using repurposed packaging. This time I decided to use Mod Podge…
My mom made an advent calendar for my family when I was young. I remember how much fun my brother and I had every December opening little gifts that she’d wrapped for us. I have an advent calendar that my mom made for me that I’m able to share with my children. We all thoroughly…
I love Thanksgiving. It’s a low-stress holiday that revolves around family and food. What’s not to love?! In addition to all the regular Thanksgiving dishes, my kids really enjoy these fun and easy Pilgrim’s Hat and Turkey cookies as a treat on Thanksgiving. I usually raid the Halloween candy (shhhh, don’t tell on me) and…
Mu husband adores Halloween. He used to carve and paint pumpkins for Halloween even before we had children. My children have inherited his love of pumpkin decorating and it’s always a big deal around our house. My husband takes the kids out and everyone gets to choose their own pumpkins. Then my husband decorates the…