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Travel: The Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve, Colorado
Colorado is full of amazing places to explore, but perhaps one of the more well-known areas is The Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve. While this park can be very crowded and hot during certain times of the year, if timed right, your visit can be an exciting and fun adventure for your whole family! Due to our somewhat close proximity to The Great Sand Dunes National Park, we are pretty choosy about when we visit, but it’s truly spectacular any time of year! I won’t be long-winded with this post, but wanted to share a photo library of some of our favorite ways to enjoy the park (and…
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Homemade Play Dough (and letter recognition)
(Recipe 👀👇🏻) … Any learning process that involves hands-on play is a win in our house and this homemade play dough continues to be a favorite with my little guy! (Bonus: We use it to make and identify our letters! He’s having a blast and learning at the same time! 🎉) If you’ve never made homemade play dough, you’ll be surprised at how easy it is! I’ve included my favorite recipe below… Have fun! 2 teaspoons Cream of Tartar 1/3 cup salt 1 cup flour 1 cup water 1 tablespoon vegetable oil Food coloring Instructions: Pour all ingredients into a medium mixing bowl. I usually start the mixing process to…
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Pallet Pictures DIY
In this blog, we’ll go over the simple steps to building your own beautiful wood pallets and creating pallet pictures! This is one of my absolute favorite DIY projects! It makes a great gift for friends and family too! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! Special Notes Before you get started, there are a few notes that I would like to share because they can greatly affect the outcome of your project. I would encourage you to read all of the instructions before you get going, but these notes are top on my list of “things to consider” before you jump in. You’ll see that I…
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How To: Age & Display Treasured Handwritten Family Recipes
In this blog, I’ll show you how I crafted a special handwritten family recipe into a kitchen conversation piece! I chose to place mine in my china hutch, but these were also gifted to other family members who have displayed theirs in unique places. Materials Needed: Handwritten Recipe Wood – Either 1) a 1×10 cut to 11.25” OR 2) a 1×12 cut to 9.25” Miter Saw, Circular Saw, or other (to cut above wood) 1/4 Sheet Sander 100 Grit Sandpaper Wood Stain Stain Rag Stain Rag Disposal Supplies Safety Gear (Nitrile Exam Gloves, Safety Glasses, Respirator Mask w/Cartridges) Mod Podge Scratch Proof Squeegee Paint Brush Lighter Brewed Coffee (One Day…
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Thrifting Tip: Bird Feeder from Condiment Bowl
Have you seen the price of bird feeders these days? Wow! As a stay-at-home mom, I’m always looking for ways to reuse items, especially when I’m thrift store shopping! So, when my son and I decided to add some bird feeders to our back yard, I headed to the thrift shop for inspiration. When my eyes landed on this condiment bowl from Pottery Barn, the light bulb went off! The price tag was $5, but it was well under what bird feeders costs and also looked durable, so we grabbed it. My husband was a little uneasy about taking an expensive condiment bowl and hanging it in the yard for…
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Grace
God put a word on my heart all day yesterday: GRACE. I researched it like crazy trying to truly understand it. And then out of the blue, my son starts a conversation that goes like this: Son: Mommy, I like it when you’re nice to me. Me: When am I not nice to you? Son: When I’m acting rude. Me: (laughs a little) So you like it when I’m nice to you even if you’re being rude to mommy? Son (very frankly) Yes. Because if you are nice when I’m acting rude, I’ll give you a hug and say I’m sorry and then I’ll be nice too. Bam! Grace! Sometimes…
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STEM Preschool Project: Watch White Flowers Change Color
As a mom to a little homeschooler, I’m always looking for educational projects and activities that will teach him valuable lessons and provide him with useful tools, while also managing to hold his age-appropriate short attention span. Children are like little sponges and I never truly give him credit for everything that he grasps and understands when we work on projects together. It always hits me when I listen to him tell his daddy about the experiment. That’s when I realize how much he truly learned. For that reason, I love to do educational hands-on projects with him that incorporate multiple lessons. One of his recent favorites was this STEM…
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My favorite Shutterfly hack for new moms!
I’m so excited to share with you my favorite money-saving Shutterfly hack for new moms. In a span of one generation, access to photo memories went from dishing out ridiculous amount of cash to have your children sit at the local superstore and praying you get one good shot to handheld devices that allow us virtually unlimited access to photos of our kids. But what do we do with all of those photos? In an age of photo overload, I started searching for a way to save my favorite photographs in one place where I could easily view them. Scrapbooking, although beautiful and personal, was way too time-consuming for me. …
