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Holiday crafts for the kids: a week of Christmas on Pinterest

What would I be doing without Pinterest?! I have found so many awesome ideas on there for Christmas this year that I decided I had an entire week of fun stuff to show off Coming up: gift wrapping ideas, décor, and gifts. Click each picture to get to the pin for more info/tutorials:

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Advent calendar activities for kids

A few days ago I posted pictures of our festive holiday décor–mainly homemade crafts I did with Ryan – and one of them was an advent calendar. Instead of candy, each day of December until Christmas offers a new activity to do as a family.

I used red foam board and cut it in half (or close to it) with an x-acto knife.

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Steve and I counted last night… we have moved 7 times in the last 5 years. At each new place, we knew it would be temporary. First, we were in Iowa finishing school, then we moved back home and were renting. So we’ve never felt like we’ve had our own place and because of that, we’ve never really gotten into decorating. We’ve paid monthly for a storage unit for the last 2 years and

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Homemade playdough goo tutorial

When we took a road trip 5 hours from here, I wanted LOTS of things for Ryan to do in the car so he’d stay happy (and I’d stay sane). I thought of making homemade play-doh, but thought that could get messy in the car so I made something similar – GOO!

And since we used it on a road trip, I kept the goo in plastic bags. Maybe not AS fun for the

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How to make a pregnant skeleton costume for Halloween

A long time ago my friend Kristin emailed me a Halloween costume idea and I fell in love. It was a homemade skeleton costume for a pregnant lady – complete with a skeleton baby – and a matching set for the dad with whatever he loves in his belly! I was dead set on making these for us and with Halloween still months away, I thought I had PLENTY of time even though we were

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