A couple months ago I attended a birthday party that had chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting & I LOVED them. I’ve been craving the chocolate + cream cheese combo since then, so tonight I thought I’d fulfill that craving with some brownie mix and homemade frosting. Cream Cheese Frosting Prep Time: 5 minutes Yields:…
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
The other day I was craving peanut butter chocolate chip cookies – I had never had them before, but they just sounded good! And so I came up with this recipe. They turned out pretty well in my opinion – a hint of peanut butter flavor combined with the chocolate chips – just what I…
Picture Wall Progress: Laying It All Out
At the end of December I posted about finding & spray painting my 25 frames for the picture wall I wanted to create. Now I’m about half way through hanging my pictures & thought I’d share some of my progress 🙂 To arrange my pictures I traced each one onto newspaper and then labeled each corresponding…
Gluten Free Cheesy Beef Lasagna
For Christmas last month my grandparents got us a 1/4 cow… which filled our freezer right up! So when it came time to make a meal for my sick family, we thought a nice meaty lasagna would be a good route. After several years of trying different variations of lasagnas we’ve finally found what we…
Twisted Flower Bracelet
Whilst searching for gift ideas, I came across a gorgeous Rosette Bracelet Tutorial by Heidi at sew.craft.create. I instantly fell in love! I had already used the “rosette” flower technique a couple of times before on some other projects so I thought this would be super easy. When it came time to create my version, I…
Pom Necklaces
These necklaces were created as gifts for my cousins. I found a tutorial for them on the stay-at-home artist blog: it was a guest post by Rachel Obrien. The weren’t quite as easy as I though {NOT hard, I just suck at using the hot glue gun :P}, but very simple. I love how they…
Sugar Scrubs
When I started seeing sugar scrub recipes on Pinterest, I knew I had to do some for Christmas. After looking at how different people approached them I ended up coming up with my own variations {& from what I hear they turned out pretty good!} We kept a little of the leftovers for ourselves and…
A Homemade Christmas
Happy New Year everyone! Now that the Christmas season is over, I though I’d look back on our homemade gift creations: some of them are pretty self explanatory and will only appear here, and a few I will include links to full posts on how we did them. We had a great time coming up…
25 Frames: Spray Painting Cheap Frames for a Unified Picture Wall
I’ve decided that I want a picture wall. You know, the walls with a ridiculous amount of different sized frames all squished together? When I first started seeing these on the internet I strongly disliked them… I thought they looked so messy. Obviously now I have changed my mind :). Then I saw an example done…
DIY Camera Strap Cover
This year Wes and I thought that in addition to our regular Christmas shopping, it would be nice to make some of our gifts ourselves. While this definitely helped with the budget, it was also a nice way to have special, personal gifts for our family. As I was searching through lots of tutorials for…