Made By Humans
Last year I bought a couple of fairy garden pieces with a Halloween theme, a little witch fairy, a pumpkin and a little black cat. (I’m not finding them available but I love these harvest signs, witch and little ghosts as an alternative.) I didn’t do anything with them last year, but this year I […]
We’re not big popsicle in a tube people here at the White House, but the girl is a big fan of frozen Go-Gurt. (Did you know they have a version without high fructose corn syrup now? I’m not getting paid to tell you this, I was just really excited.) The only problem is, well, the […]
I’m beginning to think getting ready for summer is more exhausting than summer itself. I spent the morning brainstorming a list of easy activities that I can have ready or easily have all the supplies for at any time during the summer, and shopping for a few things I needed for some of them. I […]
I have more than enough knitting needles as it is, but I always wanted to try to make knitting needles. Back when I was making stuff from hardware store finds, I was going to make some needles out of dowels, but I came up with something even easier when we were cleaning out the garage […]
I’ve been kind of in denial about how quickly the end of the school year is coming, but now that the last full week of school for the girl is upon us, it’s time to start thinking about an end-of-the-year teacher gift. This brown sugar foot scrub was something I’d been wanting to make myself […]
I have a confession to make: I almost never finish a cup of coffee. I drink some at breakfast, usually make a to-go cup to take when I take the girl to school, drink a little in the car, sometimes have a little while I’m doing chores or other morning things, but then I have […]
Last weekend husband bought some mint plants, and they’ve been languishing indoors every since. It was on my agenda to pot them for the past couple of days (you know you can’t plant mint in the ground, right?), but I couldn’t just put them in a pot. I had to make the pot cuter first. […]