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Hiking

Tolmie Peak Trail on Mount Rainier/Tahoma

A photo collage of my hike on Tolmie Peak Trail within the Mount Rainier National Park.

Craftiness

Ada and Zoey's Joint Birthday Party

This year had planned to do a long distance move during the summer which led to the kids having a joint birthday party. Here's what we did while planning our move.

Food & Dessert

Our Simply Delicious Brownie Angel Food Cupcakes

This year we chose to combine the girls' birthday party together which led to this extremely simple and novel brownie and angel food cupcake combo. Come check it out!

Craftiness

How I Made Our Slime Party Favors

For the girls birthday I wanted a simple party favor that looked great and used stuff I had on hand. These slime party favors turned out perfect! Come check out how I put it together.

Craftiness

How to Order Individual Parts and Find Instructions to Make a Retired LEGO® Kit

A while back I recreated a couple of retired LEGO® sets by buying the individual parts. I wanted to share my process in case it can help you too.

Quickly Create App Icons by Resizing Your Main Image With a Bash Script

While resizing an image I chose to use for my app icon I quickly recognized how onerous the entire process was. This lead to me creating a Bash script which dramatically sped up my workflow and may help yours too. Check it out here!

Sewing

How I Made Our Quick and Simple Luggage Tag

Over the Christmas holidays we went on a flight and I realized we needed something to make our Costco circa 2022 suitcase stand out from all the other suitcases. This is the quick and extremely simple luggage tag I sewed up to make that happen.

Craftiness

Zoey's Great Mismatched Me Hairstyle

The kids don't often let me do their hair so when Zoey talked about a hairstyle for "Mismatched Me" I jumped on it. Here's what we did.

Food & Dessert

Ada’s Exciting Eighth Birthday Party at Home

Like with Zoey's party last summer we decided to also host Ada's party at our home. Here's what we ended up doing!

Miscellaneous

Welcome... And a Quick Word on My Website Migration

Quick note on my website migration. Welcome!

Food & Dessert

How We Made a Simple and Delicious Ice Cream Cake

For Ada's birthday this last summer we ended up making our own ice cream cake. It turned out great and I can totally see doing the same for future birthdays and maybe even parties!

Technology

How to Run a Bash Script From Anywhere on Your Apple Computer

Over the years I've created several Bash scripts that I realized would be far easier to use if I could run them from several different places on my machine without moving the script itself. After learning how to do that for myself I had to share process with you!

Sewing

What I Made During the 2022 Sewing Challenge

Although this year I sewed much less I decided to still continue my trend of posting about it so here's all of my quick fixes, articles of clothing, and the kids' epic Halloween costumes.

Craftiness

Learn How I Easily Attached My Painting to My Kitchen Backsplash

I was able to attach my painted canvas to my kitchen's tiled backsplash using Command™ picture hanging strips and I wanted to share how simple it was with you in case you want to do the same.

Craftiness

Easily Make Your Stickers Last Longer, Moveable, and Sturdier by Turning Them Into Magnets

A while ago I had to peel some stickers off of my computer monitor which made me sad as I wasn't sure if I could ever replace them. This then led to me converting these stickers into magnets! I'm so glad I did and I wanted to share how simple it was in case you wanted to do the same!

reMarkable

Frequently Asked Questions I’ve Seen Around About the reMarkable

Over the last year or I've seen several reMarkable template related questions popup on Facebook user groups and each time I debate creating a post that answers all those questions. I finally decided to just make it and here's the result!

Science & Sensory Play

Zoey’s Random but Fun Sixth Birthday

Here's a quick glimpse at what we did for both Zoey's sixth birthday party and some of her actual birthday this year.

reMarkable

How I Solved My SSH Connection Error: No Matching Host Key Type Found

After a computer update I could no longer connect to my reMarkable via SSH as I had an error saying: "unable to negotiate with host: no matching host key type found". This is how I fixed the issue.

Craftiness

Update to My Simple and Quick Dresser Drawer Fix

A while back I shared how I fixed some dresser drawers using my hot glue gun. Since then one drawer bottom has started sagging again. I wanted this fix to last a bit longer so ultimately I upgraded my previous plan using a cereal box.

Technology

Update to "My Custom Picker With Multi-Selection in SwiftUI" - Now With Images!

I've upgraded my custom multi-selection picker, in SwiftUI, to now be customizable using a struct rather than string array. This means it works for images... and whatever else you want to add.

Craftiness

Simple Ways We Got Our Backpacks School Worthy

This year for school we're using the same backpacks as last year. Before school could start, though, we needed to make some customizations and quick fixes.

Food & Dessert

Super Simple Rainbow Colored Angel Food Cupcakes

This year for Zoey's birthday party we took an angel food box mix and made it custom with some food dye, whip cream, and sprinkles. Everyone loved it and I had to share this super simple hack with you.

Sewing

An Upgrade on My Girls’ Home Sewn Swimsuits

I sewed up some new swimming suits for my girls this summer and in doing so tried out a new way to attach the neckband.

Craftiness

Our Incredibly Simple "Bunny Ears" Hairstyle

This year Zoey had a Zany Hair Day at school and, on her own, came up with the idea of bunny ears. After talking it over with her this simple but perfect idea was born. She absolutely adored them and I wanted to share it in case it helps any of you out too.

Sewing

Simple Towel To Bath Mat

I've recently replaced my bath towels but regretted not having a fully matching set anymore. Thus I came up with a super simple solution, using my serger, to make the entire bathroom to match once again!