homemade

Sometimes there isn’t the talent for making that one-of-a-kind costume or decoration. There’s no shame in getting help from local makers.

I love it when my kids bring home Christmas art work or homemade ornaments!

We all love Pinterest! Most of us re-pin things for a month, and then get brave enough to actually do one of the projects we re-pinned. I recently made my kids "Loom-azing" Valentines cards, they are more like "lame-azing". If you are anything like me your pins never turn out like the project posted on Pinterest. Thankfully there is a name for this. While you may think you are

I love helping my son with his Valentines every year. In the past I have taken my son to the store a few days before Valentines to pick out the traditional card and candy in a bag. This year I got the brilliant idea to put Pinterst to good use and actually make something. This was a bad idea!

Every year I try to make popcorn balls for Halloween treats. The only reason I do this is because when I was growing up one of my neighbors made flavored popcorn balls that tasted better than any store bought candy.

I love my dogs almost as much as I love my kids. I have a four year old Boston Terrier named Pig, and a twelve year old Dalmatian cross named Connor that live like kings at my house. We don't feed the boys table scraps, well, not very often, so we try to ensure they have good wet and dry dog dog food to keep them happy. But lately, due to inflation and the cost of fuel, we've seen the price of dog