Craft Ideas Blog

Kelsey

Pin It The Monster Makeover has begun! I’m redoing my boys room with monsters, and the main attraction will be these fantastic monster paintings/portraits. Love. Them. I bought the Bump in the Night Cricut Lite cartridge specifically for this project, and look at all these great monsters! Boys stuff is getting better everyday, yes? This [...]

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Here it is again, our FAVORITE TOY EVER! Last Fall Manhattan Toy was kind enough to send us the Quadrilla Twist & Rail Set – the best marble run set there is! The pieces are brightly painted wood, very well made, and so much fun for Gus and Elliot. They recently sent us the Expansion [...]

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written by Brittney of Darling Sparrow Hey everyone! We at the DarlingSparrow etsy shop would love to offer a lucky vanillajoy reader a one-of-a-kind handmade children’s smock-aprons (apparently that’s a less confusing term than “smoprons.” Go figure.) Let’s talk about these adorable things, shall we? Each vintage inspired smock is unique, functional, and timelessly stylish [...]

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Pin It This is officially my best Valentine’s Day creation ever. I’m printing one for myself today. Happy Valentine’s day everyone!

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Pin It I saw this idea on Pinterest and loved it. I had a wall just aching for this project… Cut out a zillion leaf shapes with lots of different smallish printed papers. I used blues/greens/browns because that’s my color comfort zone. Monochromatic papers work best I think. I used the Don Juan Cricut cartridge [...]

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Utah is a pretty dry place and we all suffer from itchy dry skin but Elliot has it the worst. He has developed eczema on the backs of his knees and the poor guy can’t help but scratch and be miserable. I was thrilled to find out about the line of Neosporin Essentials products, but [...]

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I’ve been taking monthly photos of Linus, and usually some of all three at the same time…and I got this backdrop idea from my sister. You need: white sheet white icicle lights white fuzzy blanket I taped the strings of lights to a sheet and then the whole thing to the wall above our bed [...]

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Pin It So remember those toddler neck ties from yesterday? I had to alter the original pattern (From here) to fit my baby and 4 yo, so I basically just changed the length.   The basic shape is the same, I just made the smallest one 16″ long and biggest one 21″ long. These three [...]

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Pin It I needed a photo for the cover of my blog book – I print our family blog a year at a time through Blurb and as I was putting it together over the last two weeks (part of the reason I’ve been MIA…it takes forever!) I realized I didn’t have a good family [...]

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The winners are Robin and Allison C. I’ve sent you an email – get back to me with your addresses ASAP please! Congrats! Laundry has really been a struggle since #3 arrived – there’s more laundry, so that’s harder, and our days are just more hectic and crazy! Sorting laundry has become a thing of [...]

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