I love making memories with my family. Each ornament we make will be a memory captured for us to look back on in the years to come. We have fun as a family and create as a family. My kids inspire almost all of my crafts. Recently, we shared our Minecraft ornament and our scented Christmas tree. This week's Family Fun Friday Features are all DIY Christmas Crafts and … [Read more...]
Christmas Chalkboard sign
Ever since I was a kid, Christmas crafting is my favorite activity of the season. Remember this Upcycled Back to School chalkboard sign? Every now and then the kids play with them but mostly they sit in my junk craft room collecting dust. I've been seeing "eat, drink, and be Merry!" signs everywhere I look. I almost bought one at hobby lobby one day but then thought "I … [Read more...]
Fun Handmade Minecraft Christmas Tree Ornament
Do you have special Christmas traditions? We buy a new Christmas Tree ornament each year and make Christmas decorations too! This handmade Minecraft ornament is a kid favorite in our house. I want to pick up our ornaments twenty years from now and remember what some of the highlights of 2014 were in our family. This year my kids really became huge Minecraft fans. Even my … [Read more...]
The great Christmas gift debate
I remember sitting on Santa's lap whispering what toys I just had to have. I still remember when my parents braved the madness to get cabbage patch dolls for me and my sister decades ago when they were HOT. I remember carefully re-writing my Christmas lists because I always changed my mind over and over again. Is it a wonder that Christmas evolved into my dad telling us … [Read more...]
Busting Boredom and Saving Christmas!
"I AM SO BORED!" wailed my six year old. "I didn't have any fun at all today." "You didn't have fun at school?" "No! I had to be good so I was bored at school too. Now I'm bored at home. We never do anything fun!" (Well excuse me for all those times I sweated through Disney pushing your stroller, the summer treks to the zoo, and the three Sundays in a row of birthday … [Read more...]