DIY

5 Kid-Friendly DIY Tricks for Hosting a Home Spa for Mother’s Day

DIY spa treatments

Mother’s Day is just a few days away, and I for one can dream of nothing I’d like less than eating breakfast in bed. I have never understood the allure of eating with unbrushed teeth while lying in bed—spa treatments are more my cup of tea. But on Mother’s Day, I want to be with [...]

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5 Summer DIY Ideas Kids Can Accomplish in Their Backyards

5 Summer DIY Ideas

When kids are flexing their creative muscles, all is well in the world. But some art projects heighten kids’ potential for abstract thinking, inventiveness, and resourcefulness better than others. I grew up in a home with art purists, so as a child I was given little more than blank paper and pencils to create with. [...]

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5 Rainy Day Activities That Keep Kids (and Parents) Happy Indoors

Creative Rainy Day Activities

via I consider myself to be a reasonably creative mother, but because I live in a tiny home where there’s not a lot of space to spread out big projects, I’m often stumped by the question of what to do on a rainy day. Thinking of something isn’t the hard part—it’s thinking of something that [...]

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5 Earth Day Projects Kids Will Love (and Learn From)

5 DIY Ways to Celebrate Earth Day

Earth Day has a special place in my heart. It’s partially because the day went international while I was in college, so I have great associations with celebrating what felt like a brand-new holiday on big university lawns while listening to benefit concerts and acting like hippies. But beyond that, I associate the holiday with [...]

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5 No-Sew Fabric DIY Projects

No-Sew Fabric DIY Ideas

via A gorgeous printed fabric has the power to completely transform the look of everything in its midst. We all know that one fresh print can enliven a well-loved pair of jeans or act as the perfect foil for a standard black skirt. But it’s easy to overlook the power that a vibrant pattern can [...]

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5 Birthday Gift Kits That Encourage Creativity

Five years of living in a tiny house with two spirited boys, an alpha-dog of a cat, and an obsessively tidy husband has taught me much about minimizing clutter for the sake of sanity. Forced to stay organized, I naturally pare down and streamline on a daily basis. I’ve learned that among the biggest booby [...]

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6 DIY Party Favors that Warm Hearts, Not Landfills

Homemade party favors

As a mother of two young children, I attend a lot of birthday parties, which means a lot of party favors come home. And 99% of the time, they’re items my kids could do without. If the logic behind party favors is: You’re bringing my child a present and helping us celebrate, so this parting [...]

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5 School Auction Projects You’d Actually Want to Bid On

5 DIY Auction Project Ideas

A few days ago, I was chatting with my son’s pediatrician about how Americans spend over $60 billion each year on soda (pop). She mentioned that as many as four in five American children drink at least one soft drink a day. That’s millions of dollars spent on children with absolutely zero benefit to their [...]

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The Only 5 Materials You’ll Need for Quick DIY Spring Statement Necklaces

DIY Necklace Ideas

I have two rules for a do-it-yourself project: Rule #1: It has to be simple enough that I can competently pull it off so that it truly looks good. Rule #2: It has to be far cooler than anything I could buy with the kind of money mortals realistically have to shop with. In other [...]

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Friday DIY Idea: 5 Ways to Get Crafty with Silhouettes

DIY Silhouette Ideas

Silhouette art seems to be everywhere right now! Not only do we love silhouette art because it’s a nostalgic nod to times before cameras, but we also appreciate the diversity silhouette art offers—there are just so many ways to create DIY masterpieces with this simple technique. We thought we’d jump on board with this DIY [...]

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