These are so simple and make bathtime a particular treat.  That, and they’re perfect for using up our huge collection of hotel soaps.  You may have some too, but if you’re running low a bar of Ivory soap is perfect!

For each boat you need a bar of soap (just make sure that they’re the floating [...]

We had a lovely Easter–no houseguests, no parties, just a quiet rainy day inside, stuffing ourselves with chocolates.  Of course, a rainy day calls for crafty goodness, so we came up with these silly little birds that stand up by themselves, but are a piece of cake to put together.

Materials:
-paper (white or patterned, copy-weight or [...]

Spring is such an enjoyable time of year with children and presents so many opportunities for having fun together! We all seem to be eager to escape our Winter cocoons, so I wasn’t terribly surprised that Chrissie and I got so many entries for this, our first Kid-Craft Jamboree!

Kate at Picklebums shares instructions for putting [...]

In spite of a bit of snow (rather than the full-force blizzard we were promised), we’re still feeling the Spring love. Bring a little Spring to your craft table with these simple pecking chicks!

To make them, cut circles of cardstock in various sizes (I used my circle cutter, but they don’t need to be perfect…you [...]

Thursday brought a wonderful early-Spring blizzard (much needed–the weather’s been so nice we haven’t been able to stay inside!), 18″ of blowing snow, beef stew, house+made doughnuts, puzzles, and books.  Such fun.  All the kid-fun really wore me out (or maybe it was the cocoa drinking?) so I’m keeping it short this week.  Or trying [...]

I’m so excited to share my finds this week, but even more excited to hear about yours! If you’ve posted any links on your blog this week, please share a link so we can see what you’ve discovered, and if you’re blog-free but have something fun to share leave a comment. I can’t [...]

Daisy’s sixth birthday was in early January and (with all due thanks to Martha) we celebrated with a teeny tiny party.  Mini invitations invited friends to come in their fanciest dress-up to decorate tiny treasure boxes, feast on itty-bitty sandwiches (made with teeny-tiny cocktail bread), small juice boxes, mini-fruit kebabs on fancy toothpicks, and the [...]

There were so many great ideas out there last week it was hard to share so few! Next week I’ll be adding a “Friday Finds” Linky so any of you with a blog can share your “finds” posts with all of us (whether you post them on Friday or, well, any other day)! [...]

I use clothespins for everything.  I’m still working off a shoeboxfull that came with our vintage fifties ranch so I haven’t had to buy any for a long, long time.  That said, I was getting a little tired of the old, not so cute ones so we decided to pretty some up with buttons snatched [...]