If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!We’ve gone to cloth in our house – not only with diapers and re-usable wipes, but now in the kitchen as well. I’m talking about cloth napkins. Remember those fancy napkins they would give you at restaurants when you [...]
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Babies need so many clothes, and they grow out of them so fast! What can you do with all those teeny onesies, pants, dresses and shirts?
The first thing that comes to mind is to save them for the next baby. Plastic bins or boxes are the best thing to store baby clothes in, or those [...]
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Since my daughter has started solids, I have been accumulating those little 4-ounce glass jars from her baby food. A few of them went to a neighbor who wanted them for his wood shop, but the rest of them are piling up on the kitchen counter, around the sink, in grocery bags … almost as [...]
Tags: baby food jars, crafts, Frugal Living, reuse
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Isn’t it fun to browse the toy stores with your baby? You can really spend a fortune on products that say they will teach your baby to spell and count and appreciate music and develop their sensory skills, and improve fine motor skills, and just about everything else you can imagine.Or perhaps it’s depressing, when [...]
Tags: Bricks, crafts, Dolls, Education, Free, toys
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Reading one of the posts here by a new mom took me down memory lane. I started thinking about the first year and how I don’t recall dreaming at all. I breastfed and if I wasn’t waking up to feed my baby, then I was waking up to express. I also started thinking about baby books/journals and best laid plans. My mom kept a baby book for me. I don’t know if it was because I was her firstborn or not, but I can’t recall if she did one for my brother. We’re 18 months apart so after awhile the entries stopped in my book or became sporadic. I remember when she showed it to me. I had…
Tags: Baby, baby books, crafts, scrapbooking
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The holidays are so much fun–family, friends, presents, food. So what do you do with the other 2 weeks of your holiday vacation? Here are a few artsy craftsy things you can do with the whole family.
SILLY PUTTY—makes 1 cup
You will need: 1/2 cup Elmer’s white glue, 1/2 cup liquid starch, and [...]
Tags: arts, chocolate scented playdough, crafts, finger paints, play-doh, scented rocks, silly putty, spray chalk
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