You can spend a whole bunch of money buying pre-made curling ribbon gift toppers. But it is way more fun (and soooo much cheaper) to make your own. So today, I will show you how to make the kind of curlicue ribbon that you find on gifts and flowers. They are actually super easy to make! Materials curling ribbon scissors Directions Start by cutting a length of ribbon. You can make it as long as you like, but two feet is a pretty good starting point for each curl. The next thing you’ll do is open the scissors really wide […] Read more »
For Kids Only – Make Your Mom Breakfast in Bed!
Since Mother’s Day is just two days away, we decided to share an idea for how to make the day start off great for your mom – breakfast in bed! Read the full instructions for our breakfast-in-bed recipe at Build A Menu If you are looking for very elaborate breakfasts-in-bed, I would probably be the wrong person to ask. I have made french toast, eggs (fried, I still haven’t worked out omelets yet), and pancakes, but I would be useless if you were trying to make quiche or “triple fluff bon appetit egg and cheese supreme soufflé” whatever that would be. If you can […] Read more »
Tissue Paper Rose Garnish Tutorial
A while back, as I was busy practicing the art of Doing Nothingness (a.k.a standing-around-not-being-very-productivisity), I randomly came up with the idea of making roses out of tissue paper. I toyed with the idea a little, and pretty soon I had a small, red, easy to smash, tissue paper rose. In case you hadn’t noticed, I enjoy making long, silly, incomprehensible words and sentences, that include the extensive use of punctuation marks, predominantly the subtle, yet impactful character, the comma. 😉 If you would like to learn how to make a miniscule, scarlet, readily disposable, that which is made from […] Read more »
Independence Day Hair Clip
Are you going to any Fourth of July parties this year? Every Independence Day Eve (is that what you call 07/03?) some of our friends from church hold a big party to celebrate our freedom. I always dress in the colors of the American flag for the party. This year I am going to wear a red white and blue hair clip too! Want to learn how to make one? To make this you will need: Scissors Glue gun Hair clip 3 different colors of ribbon (I suggest red, white, and blue. If you live in Italy, you could do […] Read more »
Roots for The Journey – A Music Review and Giveaway
(This is a review of the music CD Roots for the Journey by Yancy. If you click on the link for the CD and buy it, our family will get a small portion of the sale. It’s called an affiliate link. That means we are the ones who told you about the CD and Yancy thinks that’s cool so she’ll give us a bit of the money. But it won’t cost you anything extra. Also, Yancy let us have this CD for free so we could listen and tell everyone what we think about it. Oh and that was our […] Read more »
An Adventure with Cousins
I am a very lucky girl. How many people have cousins that come for week long visits? Not many. But I do! Granted, they live in Massachusetts, and this is the first time they ever visited us, but still, it was a wonderful experience. Unfortunately, we could not find any time while they were with us to write a post for this blog, so I apologize for our absence. Nonetheless, we thought it would be fun to tell you a little about some of the things we did with them. Our cousins liked the farm. Though it was a little […] Read more »
Make Your Own Envelopes {free template}
I love writing letters to my friends, so I enjoy using this as a way to make cards a little more special. We printed these templates out on differently colored pieces of paper, so that we could show you purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and white envelopes. The template fits correctly on an 8 1/2 – 11″ piece of paper (average printer paper). — Abbie How to Make Your Own Envelopes 1. Print out our envelope template, and cut out around the black lines. 2. Fold the two flat edged sides in. 3. Fold the two pointed edged sides in. […] Read more »