Tired of plain, boring spiral notebooks?With just a few simple tools and materials, you can turn any off-the-shelf notebook into a custom spiral notebook. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you step-by-step through how to remove the original cover, apply your own custom design, and reassemble the notebook so it’s ready to use (or gift!). Whether…
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Family Vacation: Discovery Cove Orlando Florida – Was it Worth it?
When planning a family vacation, I tend to get overwhelmed by all the details. I love planning…until I don’t. Thankfully, I had a trusted travel agent friend help with the Discovery Cove booking, and I’m so glad I did! (Thank you, Darlean with Travels by Dar!) After spending three nights in Orlando with our…
How to Save Money with DIY Invitations
DIY invitations are not only fun, but can be even more affordable than you thought! I recently made some bridal shower invitations for a friend (personal information has been changed in the example shown for privacy), but these tips can apply to birthday party invitations, wedding invitations, or really any sort of party invitations! I…
Personalized Restickable Decals to Promote Your Girl Scout Cookie Business
You might remember awhile back in my Thank You Tags post when I posted about how we made these custom QR Code stickers for our cookie boxes so people could scan and reorder: This year I made my Brownie and Junior Girl Scouts decals that we can put on our car windows, phones, planners, or…
Compound Interest…the Eighth Wonder of the World
A Facebook friend shared this article, which says if a 20 year old with nothing in the bank can start saving just $2 a day until they are 65 years old they can accumulate one million dollars assuming they get a 12% annual return. Just TWO LITTLE DOLLARS A DAY!! Now, if you know anything…
Teaching Important Life Skills by Playing Store!
I saw this amazing post on Facebook the other day…I was going to link up but it has been taken down for some reason. =( Anyway, it was the inspiration for my latest educational and fun project with the girls! We literally just started today, and will adjust as we go. So far, they love…
Super Sweet Snail Mail
I love mail. Love it. Getting the mail is one of the highlights of my day. Not sure why…as if I’m expecting a Publisher’s Clearing House letter that says I won a million dollars, but they come to your door so that idea is out. And most anything that I am expecting that is of…
Instant Burn Relief
Tell me I’m not the only one who has totally burnt the crap out of my fingers with a glue gun. Right? It hurts. A lot. I have two settings on my glue gun – hot and melted magma. For some stupid reason I always put it on the hottest setting to quickly warm up…
Cookie Monster & Elmo Cupcakes
Last year we went all out and had a huge rainbow theme bash for my daughter’s 1st birthday. It was fun and we had A LOT of people attend. Since then we have moved to a very small town that is 1-2 hours away from the majority of our friends and family. This year for…
Juicing Pulp Cake
I finally got around to opening the juicer I bought months ago and gave it a whirl. I think I like it! The first day I juiced a couple handfuls of baby carrots, pineapple wedges and an apple. The next day I tried baby carrots, cucumber, spinach, grapefruit and an apple. (Kind of a weird…