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  • Love Blocks

    Love Blocks

    These love blocks add a nice touch to the home for Valentines. Simple to make, and a great reminder for the family to do all things with Love!

    This was going to be part of my Valentines Decorations, but circumstances didn’t allow me to get to it until after. My mom’s ward was making these the week before Valentines.  I was supposed to be visiting their house that week, but the weather was bad, and we were down to one car.  So I finally picked up the blocks this week and made them on my own.  It was a lot of fun, and they look great!  I think they’ll be out for some time still.

     

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    The blocks were already painted for me, but this would be really easy to do.  Cut a 2×4 down to the size you want your letters, then sand and paint.
     
     
    Mod Podge some colorful paper on the blocks.  The letters are vinyl cutouts, with a sticky back.  There are a lot of places that make vinyl letters like this.  In the future, I’ll just use my cricut to cut the letters out of paper.  Then mod podge them on.  After sticking the letters I added another layer of mod podge to seal it all.
     
     
    Once the mod podge has sealed add different embellishments – paper flowers, ribbons, gems – with hot glue. Then display for everyone to enjoy!
     
    Where would you display these Love Blocks? 
  • Simplify in the Kitchen with a Bread Maker

    Simplify in the Kitchen with a Bread Maker

    What tools make cooking simpler for you?  Do you have a favorite kitchen gadget you can’t live without?  How about the most useless tool in your kitchen?  Maybe something you like to use, but takes up way too much space?  

    I love the kitchen, it’s probably my favorite room in any given house.  I do not like the kitchen I am in now.  It is small, cramped and makes it hard to get the whole family in there cooking up a good time.  

    2010 brought with it my new favorite kitchen gadget – the Breadmaker.  For Christmas 2009 my mom got me the Breadman Breadmaker.  I thought it was cool, but at the time I still really enjoyed getting my hands in the dough and letting the kids help me make the bread.  So I didn’t use it a whole lot.  Then we moved here…

     
    I still love cooking, and being in the kitchen, it’s just become a lot harder to do the big fun stuff.  
    Enter stage left…..
    My Breadman Bread Maker (affiliate link).  Yes, it takes up one of the few counter spaces I have, but it opened up the time to play with kids, and do more cleaning.  Gosh, I love this thing.  (we loved it so much, we bought mom a bread maker this last Christmas!)
     
    This thing does everything from beginning to end.  Kneading, rising and baking.  But it doesn’t end there.  You can have it just knead the bread, then you make it into rolls, pitas, cinnamon buns and cook in the oven.  Or make some homemade jelly in it!!!
     
    Here’s the latest and greatest from our beloved Bread Maker
    mmmm clover leaf white rolls.  Dinner’s going to be good tonight!!
     
    Don’t tell but two rolls have already gone missing…..

    What Kitchen Tool simplifies your life?

  • Household Management Binder

    Household Management Binder

    With the help from some friends and their favorite links, and a little google searching, I have created a Household Management Binder for our House.  
    The cover made with my Cricut!
    Daily to do lists
    Birthdays with monthly calendars behind it
    Chore Charts – one for each of us (mom, dad, Venice and Chloe)
    List of Bills, due dates, amounts, and paid
    Weekly meal planning followed by….
    A grocery shopping list
     
    If you have any ideas to add to my book, something you might have in yours, please leave a comment.  I rely on ideas of others to get me going!
     
    What would you put in a Household Management binder?