Valentine Round-Up–Quick and Easy

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I’m participating with the Dating Divas and bunches of your other favorite creative bloggers in a week-long Valentine’s Idea Round-up. 4 days of amazing ideas! We’ve got you covered! ******* This Valentine Round-Up has been amazing. We have gathered up a bunch of fantastic bloggers to share their favorite “Quick & Easy” ideas for this [...]

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Valentine’s Round-Up Gifts

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I’m participating with the Dating Divas and bunches of your other favorite creative bloggers in a week-long Valentine’s Idea Round-up. 4 days of amazing ideas! Still looking for Valentine’s inspiration? We’ve got you covered! Thanks to the Divas for compiling these great collections! Here we go….. #1) Lucky In Love Scratch-Off Cards {The Dating Divas} – Show [...]

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Valentine’s Snack Gift Basket with Printable Poem

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I’ve been a little reluctant (and preoccupied) to jump into Valentine’s Day too quickly, but have you flipped your calendar, yet? It’s February! Time to get serious about all things Love-related! I made this fun gift for BSB last-minute, last year, but didn’t have a chance to get it blog ready then. I recreated it [...]

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Wishing you a Sparkling New Year! Printable

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  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! A while back, I found and fell in love with these individually-sized bottles [...]

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Handmade Personalized Ornaments

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Guest post by my sister, Trina, who contributes a little insanity to the blog often. Thanks, sis! 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 very-full tree. [...]

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 [...]

Top 5 Holiday Tipsy’s

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I am totally excited to be here on My Insanity! I had the pleasure of meeting Kendra at Creative Estates and she is all sorts of fun! Hi, I’m Michelle from… I love to share creative projects that can be done on a time and money budget. I also host a weekly DIY Under $5 [...]

Golden Birthday Shirt, DIY Silk Screen

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Do you know what a golden birthday is? I didn’t until my neighbor explained that her daughter would be celebrating her golden birthday this weekend. Apparently, your golden birthday is when you turn the same age as the day of your birth. Perhaps I didn’t know this because I would have celebrated my golden birthday [...]

Ho Ho Ho Banner

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I’m excited my sister, Trina, decided to share another fun Christmas project with you! This one involves a little bit of sewing, *gasp*, but it’s simple enough, I could probably do it! Here’s what she said: I made several of these felt and flannel Ho Ho Ho banners last year to give away, made with [...]

Martha Stewart Christmas Mug

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It was a happy day a few weeks ago when I opened up a box of Martha Stewart Crafts line of paints and goodies from the folks at Plaid. You might say Christmas came a little early for me this year! Among the goodness in the box were bottles of beautiful colors of satin, pearl and [...]