Category Archives: Beauty

4 Moms Open House Bedrooms Part 2

Welcome to the 4 Moms, 35 Kids open house.  Please visit other open house posts and link up at the bottom of this post Last week we looked at the boy's and the little girl's bedrooms.   This week we'll peek into our big girl's room and the master bedroom. Master Bedroom Our master bedroom is ...

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4 Moms Open House: Bedrooms Part 1

Welcome to the 4 Moms, 35 Kids open house tour.  We've toured the yard and entryway, the kitchen and dining room and the school/living areas.  This week we'll peak into some of our bedrooms (more bedrooms next week) and you'll have the opportunity to ...

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4 Moms Open House: Kitchen and Dining Room

Welcome to the second week of  4 Moms: How Moms of Many Manage open house.  Please feel free to link up your post tour of your kitchen and dining room below and visit the other moms of many KimC, Connie and The Deputy Headmistress to see how things ...

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4 Moms Open House: Yard and Entry

Welcome to our month long open house series. Each Thursday during the month of August 4 Moms and 35 Kids ( Connie, Deptuty Headmistress, KimC and I)  invite you into our homes for a glimpse at how we  set up, organize and manage homes for our larger than ...

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Flower Hair Clip Tutorial

I'm sure you've seen the little crocheted baby hats with huge flowers on them, so cute.  Since I love making baby hats I was on the look out for a way to inexpensively incorporate these huge flowers, different colors with different hats to match different outfits. These inexpensive, easy to make flower hair clips fit ...

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Hamburger and Ant Cupcakes

One of the lovely women that I met at Blissdom is Liz who blogs at Hoosier Homemade.  Liz is super creative in the kitchen and her particular specialty is cupcakes. When I saw these amazing ant and hamburger cupcakes featured on her blog last week I knew that our little cupcake lover ...

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Crocheted Baby Hat with Flower Pattern

baby hat

I've been inspired to get out the crochet hooks and make some baby hats for some friend's children.  (I enjoy both knitting and crocheting because there's very little mess or space required.)  Here is one that I made for Connie's baby girl who is due in a few months.  (Did you ...

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Yo-Yo Curtains: Tutorial

Thank you to Heather for being willing to guest post for me today.   Heather has a degree in home economics and now homeschools her four children.  She blogs at Kingdom Arrows and also has the distinct privilege of being one of my real life friends. Bet you thought I was going to talk ...

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Monogrammed Burlap Pillows: Kids Can Make This

Here is another gift that our younger children (1, 3, 4, 6 and 7 year old) are making for family this year.  (Don't worry, I warned the family who regularly reads my blog not to read this week, so hopefully no surprises will be ruined.) I saw this at We are THAT Family and once ...

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Christmas Ornament Tutorial: Kids Can Make This

Each year the children like to make gifts to hand out to everyone who comes over to our home during the month of December.  When my friend Betsy, came to our Mom's Meeting (our topic was Christmas gifts), brought these cute ornaments ...

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