This past spring our lawn was looking horrible! It had brown and yellow spots galore and no matter how much I watered it (I was being obsessive about it too), it still looked the exact same. The only difference was, of course, wasting so much time, water, and our water bill went up significantly… YIKES! …

  In February, for a Super Saturday (a craft day we do with the women at my church)  I was put in charge of a project that I had never even heard of. It was making a knock off of those In a Pikle emergency bags using a hot pad (similar to these). The proto-type that …

Maybe I’m strange, but I don’t consider a cinnamon-sugar coated cookie a Snickerdoodle unless the recipe calls for Cream of Tartar. It’s gotta have that slight tang to it, otherwise it’s just a cinnamon cookie. Anyway, I thought I’d share this yummy recipe that has recently become my favorite. I think that the best part …

I am in love with hotel style key racks! I just think that they are so pretty and about a million times better looking than the cheesy ones that we all made in middle school shop class. Surprisingly though, I couldn’t find a lot of options out there to buy one (especially if you don’t …

Finding balance with housekeeping when you have small children can be really tough!   There are some days that I feel like I’m walking in quicksand just trying to keep up. Some days it’s so bad that I genuinely have to give myself a pep talk to get up and work on it when I …

Last fall I bought a pound of Vanilla Beanswhen I was making my neighbor Christmas gifts (which were home-made Tahitian Vanilla Extract). I had no idea how much to buy, so I went ahead and bought a full pound. I ended up having about ¾ of them left over. Talk about a happy accident! Vanilla …