It’s my favorite time of year. Well, yes, fall. But more importantly, it’s the start of knitting season. I know you can (and I do) knit year-round, but when there’s a chill in the air, and a nice cup of cocoa or cider on-hand…well, that’s when I really like to curl up on a comfy couch […]
How to Get a Handle on Craft Supplies
So I recently published a post on our must-have craft supply list. We don’t have a ton of stuff, but the stuff we do have, we use all the time. So today I’m over on the BabyCenter blog, sharing how we organize all the kids’ craft supplies. Once I made one big move, and pared stuff down, […]
15 Toy Organizing Solutions
Ah yes — it’s time for our annual Toy Inventory and Organizing bout. We like to go through everyone’s clothes and toys every few months and take stock — has it been broken or outgrown or just been found boring? Have we somehow accumulated a bunch of cheap toys from dentist visits and McDonald’s outings […]
One Simple Trick for Cleaning Anything
I live in a house with a lot of stairs. I’m not complaining about this…the day I complain that my house is so big it needs stairs to get to all the parts of it is the day you get to kick me in the shins for being a spoiled bratty brat. I’m just telling you this […]
The Craft Area
It’s wrong, isn’t it, to admit that my husband and I already have plans for the kids’ rooms when they move out? Especially when the oldest is only eleven? In the meantime, we’ve tried to carve out little spaces for ourselves in the basement. My husband’s is a corner filled with junk vintage office furniture. I have […]
Easy Toy Organization Ideas
With four kids of different ages and both genders, I’m always looking for easy toy organization ideas. Last year I did the Great Toy Purge. Because we got rid of so much stuff, and because we’ve been trying to keep the clutter down since then, this year I didn’t have to spend an entire weekend […]
Chores with MyJobChart
This post contains affiliate links. All opinions are, of course, my own. Because why would I waste my time trying to get you to buy something dumb? We’d both hate that. MyJobChart.com I have struggled for several years now with getting the kids to do chores. Do I make them? Do I pay them for […]
Organizing the Needle Nest
This was one of those little projects that made me disproportionately happy. That’s my needle nest. I thought I was doing pretty well just having them all in one box. But it was a pain finding the right size. I took out all the straight needles and stood them up in a jar, then organized […]
Displaying Kids’ Artwork
So I blog a lot about kids’ crafts and activities…but I didn’t have a good way to display the results for a long time. Today, I’m over at My Favorite Finds, showing you my solution. Check it out!
The Screwdriver That Saved My Sanity
For six years the kids’ closet doors haven’t worked. For six years I’ve struggled to get them on the track and for six years I’ve been getting weirdly angry about it. Like adrenaline-rush angry. Throwing-things-around angry. Today, I took them off. It required a Phillips head screwdriver and less than half an hour of my […]