DIY Anti-Aging Facial Mask and Scrub
Make your home an instant spa and treat your “mask-ne” with a simple and easy-to-make DIY facial mask and scrub. Three easily available ingredients are all you need to get your spa-at-home up and running. And guess what? It’s anti-aging too! Just what the doctor ordered to get our faces in tiptop shape under those oh-so-necessary safety masks and shields.
Learning Apps to Consider For Your Homeschooling Set-Up
As classrooms remain in our homes this schoolyear, mom Minnette gets technology on her side and enlists a few learning apps she’s found online that have proved helpful in creating an engaging and conducive homeschooling set-up that her kiddo loves. Read more to find out if these apps will work for your homeschool set-up too.
My DIY Batik-Inspired Desk
Do you want a new look for your children’s work stations? This simple, DIY Batik-inspired design will inspire you to liven up their workspaces! All you need are leftover paint, school supplies, a steady hand and a little creativity. Personalizing their own desks and allowing them to give design input will encourage them to get excited to use their “new” desks this coming schoolyear!
Space-Savers You Need For Your Desk Right Now
As our desks become ground zero for all “from-home” functions, work/school/life clutter can get out of hand pretty quickly. We share with you 5 hardware store finds that will do wonders for your messy desks
How To Manage Multiple-Aged Kids Learning From Home
Art teacher and mom, Karlin, gives us a sneak peek into her home and describes how setting the tone and cultivating a culture of love and respect help her “survive” teaching her own brood of three multi-aged kids.
DIY 5-Ingredient Veggie Dip
A simple 5-ingredient vegetable dip you can try at home. All you need are mayo, salt and pepper, vinegar and minced garlic. Enjoy a creamy, savory pairing for your Crudité of carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, celery, or any raw vegetable of your choice.
DIY Wooden Cat. For kids by kids.
Simple DIY kids’ activities to do at home. Thinking of an easy do-it-yourself project your child can do this summer? Why not come up with their own DIY tutorial using what’s at hand?
Generation X: A Brief Photo Essay
Generation X, the middle generation (hence the X) born between Baby Boomers and Millennials, teetered on the fence between the analog and digital eras. Growing up mostly without internet and social media, this generation can still remember the days when cassette mix tapes, boom boxes and the Walkman were the height of tech! So, if […]
Throwing Out the Trash
Teaching our kids to practice Philippians 4:8-9…whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
DIY Paper Cup Popsicles
Create a healthy summer dessert using everyday kitchen items and good-for-you breakfast ingredients with this simple DIY dessert
Body Beautiful: The Perfect Swimsuit to Rock The Mom Bod
I’m feeling it. I’m feeling hotter…literally (and, NO, it’s not menopause). With Summer 2021 beginning to feel like it’s going to be a scorcher, thoughts suddenly turn to hopeful imaginings of sandy toes, pristine waters and sunburned noses.
Top 5 Can’t-Do-Without Household Essentials
If there’s anything we love, it’s a product that multitasks. Through the years, we’ve obsessively tried and tested many products to clean, sanitize, polish, refurbish, de-bug, de-clog, and de-stain (is this a word?) our home and these 5 products have always been the ones we’ve relied on to work reliably and safely for a bustling […]
Flimsy Fortress
The dining room was a mess. Three little girls had decided that this was going to be the location of their fort and they were running around the house excitedly grabbing items to make their little place “homey”. Two bedsheets ended up over the table and provided the giggling, enthusiastic trio with their “walls” while […]
HOW TO WEAR: The Mutton Sleeve
Flashes of old-school Disney princesses come to mind whenever a pic of this playful trend pops up on my feed. (That and my sister’s prom dress in the 80s.) As they say, it all just goes around and here we are in the year 2021 and the dramatic puff sleeve, formally known as the Leg-of-Mutton sleeve, has exploded onto the arms and shoulders of influencers on FB and IG feeds.
DIY Memory Box
We all have them…travel souvenirs, graduation knickknacks, baby mementos, hotel keycards, dog-eared maps, leftover change from around the world and other nostalgic touchstones we can’t seem to get rid off.
A fun project to finally clear out those cluttered drawers and organize those priceless memories to create an art gallery of memoirs worthy of the Louvre…well, in our eyes anyway.
Relive those amazing family vacations and enjoy your trip down memory lane…we’ll all soon be booking flights to exotic destinations soon!
HOW TO WEAR: Tie-Dye (When You’re Over 40)
Whoever said you can’t have fun with fashion in your 40s? It’s all about balance and fit…go crazy with pattern but balance it out with a classic neutral piece or go for volume (top or bottom) but weigh it down with something streamlined. In our first “style how-to”, we tackle tie-dye (yes, it’s baaaack) and how we can wear this trend and still look pulled together.
