These simple and elegant DIY place cards will add the final touches to your Thanksgiving table The best part of Thanksgiving is making the table beautiful. It’s not often that I get an excuse to make a really gorgeous tablescape, so I get a little giddy on the holidays where I get to do that….
Use this free printable to create your own Thankful Tree this Thanksgiving season! We like to make a Thanksgiving tree every year. I love putting it up and leaving the tags out with some markers so the girls (and my husband and I) can write down things we are grateful for on a daily basis…
I love Halloween. And I love decorating for Halloween almost more than I love the holiday itself! I especially love to have a fun Halloween wreath on the front door, but I haven’t had a good one in a while. I have become so bored of my Halloween decorations this year. I even left a…
So, thanks to Pinterest, I found eleventy billion cute little valentine ideas. And I wanted to make all of them. Which, naturally, would require picking myself up by the bootstraps and leaving my January blahs behind. As it was, aside from a bit of shopping for the projects, I didn’t actually pick myself up by…
My girls wanted to do a family Halloween theme again this year and they chose Harry Potter. My oldest daughter was going to be Hermione, my middle daughter was going to be Harry, my youngest was going to be Hedwig, my husband was going to be Dumbledore and I was going to be Professor Trelawney….
I am finally posting the vampiress Halloween costume that I made for my ten-year-old daughter. The one that took about 16 yards of fabric to make and probably weighs 10 pounds. Poor girl had to play her violin wearing the thing for the Halloween recital (and might I add that she played splendidly?). I will…
How to quickly make the cute Valentine’s Day Cards with the fist holding lollipops I always want to make valentines for my kids to hand out. February always seems to be too crazy of a month for me to pull that off, so I have never done it in the past. My oldest daughter really…
Overstuffed Life Family Productions presents The Wizard of Oz Family Themed Halloween Costumes (or Wicked, if that’s what you prefer) The cast of characters, in the order they happened to be photographed by mom. Dorothy (played by middle daughter) The Good Witch of the North, aka Galinda, aka Glinda the Good (played by oldest daughter)…
Yesterday I finished Miss Cowardly’s costume. One down, two to go. Once my recital was over, I started the sewing, and to be honest, I’ve been less than consistent. But it’s done! And isn’t it cute? Actually, turns out she takes after her father and has a kind of big head. Knowing this, I made…