Wishing you a Sparkling New Year! Printable

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  Pin It Here’s an idea to bring a little sparkle to your New Year’s celebration! Or maybe you never got around to taking Christmas goodies to your neighbors? I’m sure they would be thrilled to get a fun and thoughtful New Year’s gift! Pin It A while back, I found and fell in love [...]

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Top Insanity of 2011

Top 2011

Pin It It’s that exciting time of year again! The time where I reflect over the past year of blog posts and realize that I have accomplished a few things during besides driving my children to and from their various obligations and surfing Pinterest! And then I remember why I am so tired all of [...]

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Christmas Collages 2011

Christmas Eve 2011

We’ve had a wonderfully full Christmas and are very blessed–and still recovering! I wanted to share a few images with you from our holiday, but if you know me at all, you’ll know I’m rather indecisive, so instead of choosing the best couple of pictures, I’m sharing dozens with you! Pin It Above are images [...]

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Virtual Christmas Card 2011

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Here is a virtual Christmas card for you! Thank you for reading and justifying the insanity! Hope you have a beautiful holiday full of new memories! Pin It

Flash Mobbing the Holidays

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Last year (one year ago, yesterday) I tried to surprise my husband on his birthday by dragging him to the mall so I could participate in a flash mob singing of the Hallelujah Chorus. As it turns out, we spent the whole time trying to find a place to park, missed the singing, took forever [...]

Handmade Personalized Ornaments

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Guest post by my sister, Trina, who contributes a little insanity to the blog often. Thanks, sis! Pin It I have a tradition of giving each of my children an ornament every year. It started out as a way to add to our somewhat-sparse tree, but has become the kids’ favorite part of decorating our now [...]

Cupcake Liner Christmas Tree, Elmer’s Holiday #GlueNGlitter

Cupcake liner Christmas trees

Pin It I have a couple of gaping holes on either side of my mantle that present some decorating challenges. Anything I put there ends up looking cluttery, unless it is the right scale.  I spent some time looking at ordering some smaller Christmas trees. I thought something like this fancy feather tree from Z [...]

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A Very SNAP!py Christmas to you!

SNAP! Giveaway

Pin It It will be a very SNAP!py Christmas for one of my lucky readers!!! I am SO EXCITED to have the opportunity to giveaway one full Conference Pass to the event of the year for creative bloggers! I blogged a lot of the details about SNAP! Conference on this post, and you’ll want to [...]

Chatting about Handmade Christmas Gifts

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Have I told you that I grew up in a family with eight children? I am number 6, and as you might imagine with a family that large, finances were extremely limited. Our Christmases while I was a child were largely handmade. We all wanted to give presents to each sibling and our parents, so [...]

3D Roller Skate and Disco Ball Cake

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  Pin It I don’t really have time today for a lengthy tutorial or explanation, but since I was foolish enough post an incriminating picture of the havoc this cake wreaked on my kitchen, I thought I ought to show you the finished product. Pin It This was for my neighbor’s 10th birthday, which happens to be [...]

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