Crafts, ideas, recipes and printables to help you celebrate holidays and festive events.
Whenever I’m out shopping, I’m always on the look out for small gifts for the kids for upcoming holidays. At the after-school-started school supplies sales, I found these metal pencil boxes for only $.88 each. I quickly grabbed 3 of them knowing I could turn them into a diy decorated box perfect for Valentine’s Day gifts…
Somehow Valentine’s usually creeps up on me before I’m ready. I think it’s because I’m still coming down off the Christmas high and exhaustion. But I’m often scrambling to come up with a frugal easy last-minute Valentine’s gift for the hubby. If you’re like I am, then here’s the perfect easy last-minute Valentine’s gift and it’s frugal,…
Tips on how to store decorations to protect them from the elements. Tips learned from living in 20+ different homes around the world.
Tips for packing Christmas decorations and protect them to survive a move from 20+ military moves around the world.
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.