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This weekend I decided to start a little Christmas series of tutorials for homemade gifts. My hope is that they would be gifts that you would love to give and receive and don’t scream homemade in a bad way. My goal is to share at least one gift idea a week, and I’m starting it off with this…

With this transition to a gluten-free kitchen I’ve been doing a lot more baking and cooking completely from scratch. The menu planning process goes something like this: Okay, I want to make a nice tender roast in the slower cooker. This recipe calls for soy sauce and onion soup mix. We’ve already got the gluten-free soy…

Back in the spring we did a major furniture purge. It was at the time we got rid of both of our desks which resulted in us making this awesome desk that I love. We also got rid of Raeca’s massive dresser/change table -it was a beast, let me tell you! You actually don’t even…

When I read the prompt When Pinterest Comes to Life on The Nectar Collective I originally thought I was going to make something much more . . . cool. I wasn’t exactly thinking I would be linking up a kids craft, but hey, why not! A few weeks ago Raeca asked if we could make a craft…

let her sleep for when she wakes she will move mountains Like most members of the female gender I’ll in love with Pinterest. The problem is that I have a habit of pinning things that I like but not actually doing them. I’ve been sick all week and by this morning I had completely lost…

I find Raeca’s little word/sentence mix ups to be the cutest thing ever. A few weeks ago at supper we were going over words she used to (or still does) say incorrectly; raccoon = rack-ca-coon, elephant = ef-a-lant, and by the time we got to helicopter she was onto us. She thought for a minute…