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Science & Sensory Play

Simple and Adorable Snow People Sensory Kit

For a friend's gift two years ago I came up with a quick play dough sensory kit featuring snow people and made extra for my own kids. We loved the premise and I figured I had to share it with you in case you're looking for something similar for yourself or as a gift too.

Hiking

Cascade Pass Trail in the North Cascades National Park

A photo collage of my hike back in September on the Cascade Pass Trail within the North Cascades National Park. Click here to check it out!

Craftiness

Our Amazing Halloween Costumes: Costumed Hairstyle Ideas: Spider

Last year I made an adorably cute spider on my head that my girls absolutely adored! I had to share it with you in case you're looking for a last minute costume idea.

Sewing

Our Amazing Halloween Costumes: Ada's Carmen Sandiego

Last year Ada knew early on that she wanted to be Carmen Sandiego for Halloween and she didn't waver so when I decided to tackle costumes I knew that I needed to make it happen. Here's what I did to turn her into Carmen!

Craftiness

Our Amazing Halloween Costumes: How I Made a Custom Carmen Sandiego Necklace

For Halloween last year Ada wanted to be Carmen Sandiego. I knew immediately that I needed to figure out her distinctive necklace (along with her red jacket and hat) to truly make the costume apparent. Here's how I made the necklace!

Sewing

Our Amazing Halloween Costumes: Zoey's Black Cat

Last year when I asked the kids what they wanted to be for Halloween Zoey thought about it for a second and then immediately told me a black cat. I'm so glad she did as I absolutely adored how her costume turned out! Check it out here.

Contest Entry

My Past Design in the Giboard Contest

I've entered the Giboard Design Contest and would love to win and see my design as reality. Please vote especially if you want this design too.

Sewing

Our Amazing Halloween Costumes: How I Made a Custom Cat Tail

For Halloween last year Zoey wanted to be a black cat. To pull off the costume I knew we needed to include a proper cat tail. This is how I made it!

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.