Happy New Year’s Eve, folks! Do you guys have any New Year traditions? Any special things you do with your kids at the end of each year? If you read my Top Five Tools for Memory Keeping post, you won’t be surprised to learn that I also have a little New Year’s Eve Memory Book that…
DIY Tooth Fairy Pouch
Today, I’m going to share with you how to make a DIY Tooth Fairy Pouch. Here’s the back story, folks. When I was a little girl, I was afraid of the Tooth Fairy**. The thought of a fairy flying around my bedroom and ultimately reaching under my sleeping head to take my old tooth was positively…
DIY: Talking Spoon (Teaching Children Table Manners)
Today, I am going to share with you how to make a DIY Talking Spoon, a tool that helps with teaching children table manners. Folks, I’d like to introduce you to the Talking Spoon: Are you sitting there thinking to yourself, “What the heck is that?!” Well, it’s none other than our family’s beloved Talking Spoon. A few…
A FAIRY good time with fairy houses
FTC Disclosure: This post contains Amazon Affiliate links.* Oh my gosh, you guys. The coolest thing happened recently. I received an e-mail from a reader, a soon-to-be-homeschooler, who had enjoyed our fairy-themed craft-palooza post so much that she wanted to send us some of her decorate-your-own fairy houses. I have a reader who has a fairy house…
How to Make a No-Sew Hopscotch Mat
Today, I am going to tell you how to make a no-sew hopscotch mat in minutes! It is one of those rainy, raw New England winter days over here, a day where I want nothing more than to stay in my jammies and read a good book. Alas, it’s a couple days before Christmas and my to-do…
Fairy Craft Follow-Up
Remember the fairy door craft that I posted about a couple weeks ago? I spaced on posting a follow-up to our fairy craft-palooza. Here are some belated photos of our fairy doors. Leo supervised the installation because it is very important to place your fairy door in a spot where your fairy will feel both safe…


