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Santa Claus Christmas Countdown Calendar

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Sometimes I think that the time getting ready for Christmas is even better than the big day itself. I love lighting the Advent candles each Sunday, setting out the pieces of our Nativity set bit by bit, and counting down the days on an Advent calendar, getting one step closer to Christmas Day. This Santa […]

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Quick and Easy Felt Flower Jewelry

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I just love flowers – real, fabric, felt, paper, you name it – and I’m often incorporating flowers into my craft projects. I even made the flowers for my daughter’s wedding! (Of course, the boutonnieres and corsages were lost at the venue and we had to make a last minute dash to a florist to […]

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Upcycled DIY Flower Vase Bookends

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Earth Month may be over but that doesn’t mean that the recycling and upcycling stops around here. I love to take materials I have just hanging around the house and turn them into something useful and beautiful. These Upcycled DIY Flower Vase Bookends are a fun way to make over a plain old cardboard box. […]

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Simple but Elegant Paper Quilled Christmas Ornament

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Welcome to the 2017 Ornament Exchange & Blog Hop! This year, there are 47 amazing bloggers participating in the exchange. The rules of the challenge were simple: be partnered with a fellow blogger, create a handmade ornament for $15 or under, create a tutorial, and ship the ornament off to a new home! Being a […]

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Top 100 Paper Crafts of 2016

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I’m so excited to announce that my Basic Paper Quilling 101 post has been named one of the Top 100 Paper Crafts of 2016 on All Free Paper Crafts. This has long been one of my top posts on Creative Cynchronicity for bringing traffic to my site and is something near and dear to my […]

Rejoice, rejoice! We have actually had a few days of sunshine and warm temperatures this week. It really does so much to life the spirits, doesn’t it? We have our church picnic today and then next weekend, we’ve got a family BBQ and a fun trip to African Lion Safari. June is shaping up to […]

Pasta salads, potato salads, coleslaw – isn’t summer wonderful? I have my favorite recipes for all of these, but I do love to play around with different flavor combinations and come up with some new options too. This Peach Slaw may be the new kid on the block but I think it’s going to become […]

Happy first Friday in June! If you’ve been a longtime reader, you might know what that means. It’s time to start our summertime series, “Summer Fun Fridays”! Every Friday from now until the last Friday of August, I’ll be sharing ideas of how to add more fun to your summer. From crafts and DIY ideas […]

15 minutes of family fun in June

As we move into June, some of you may already have kids on summer vacation. For us, we still have nearly the whole month of June before school lets out around here. It can be a tough month in either case. The excitement of summer break can quickly turn into summer boredom. And for those […]