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Birthday Bunting
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Hooray! I’m having so much fun making things that are likely to be in our family for a long, long time. Once I finished the holiday decorations, I decided to move onto the Happy Birthday bunting for our little boy due in February.
I followed the same pattern and process I used to make the “Cherish” bunting. It was even simpler the second time. Having a cutting mat and a rotary cutter really makes the process quicker.
I regret that I went with a polka dot pattern for the letters, since it’s kind of overwhelming and difficult to read. A solid pattern would have looked better (Matt jokes–in
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Halloweeeeeeeeeeeen!
I hope your Halloween was fun and festive! I was pretty happy with the way my crystal ball reader costume turned out. I will say that Coconut handled his first Halloween very well. He was an excellent crystal ball. I would ask people if they wanted me to read my crystal ball, rub my belly, and then pull out a fortune and hand it to them. (As a side note, I downloaded, printed, and cut the fortunes from this fortune cookie site.)… Read MoreMatt had fun carving a pumpkin with our dremel. Hoss was happy that we didn’t attempt to dress him up…
In terms of ideas for next
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Meal Planning Made Easy
My current meal-planning system is pretty inefficient. I have a binder of recipes that I flip through to select our four meals for the week. Then I make our grocery list. If I find a recipe off the internet that I really like, I print it and add it to our binder.I love that we have a centralized place to store our tried-and-true recipes, but it’s a bit inefficient to write and rewrite all the ingredients every week for the grocery list. It would be more efficient to have a computerized system that would automatically import the ingredients I needed for whatever recipes I selected for the week.… Read MoreThe
