About Make and Takes

Make and Takes is a popular parenting site sharing kids crafts, home projects, easy recipes, parenting tips, and more. New content is posted Monday through Friday, with fun Weekend Links on Saturday. Everything posted is something to “make and take”. Whether it’s a holiday craft for kids, an easy way to spruce up your home decor, or baking a delicious dessert, you’ll be able to make or take something.

Our Mission

Make and Takes is here to help give you ideas and crafty tidbits for home, family, and fun. We hope our simple ideas and projects will help bring fun and learning into your home. So take a look around and I’m sure you’ll find something to Make and Take today!

Our Contributors:

Marie LeBaron is the founder and managing editor of Make and Takes.

She’s a mother of 3 living in Salt Lake City, Utah. Always having a love of crafts, she enjoys getting messy with glue and glitter. There’s always some sort of project going on, her kitchen counter is often cluttered with crafts. When she’s not crafting and creating with her kids, she loves to run, read, and blog!

Marie graduated with an Early Childhood and Elementary teaching degree and taught kindergarten for 4 years. She now shares many of her tips and tricks she’s learned over the years on her blog. She’s listed as one of Nielsen’s Power Mom 50, is a hostess of the BlogHer pre-party, SocialLuxe Lounge, and organized the women’s blogging relay team, Eat Blog Run. Marie is also a regular contributor at Alphamom, Craftzine, and Snackpicks.

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Heather Mann is a contributing writer for Kids Crafts.

She’s is the mother of three boys, ages 3, almost 2, and newborn. She publishes Dollar Store Crafts, a daily blog devoted to hip crafting at dollar store prices. Her blog is dedicated to bringing you crafts that feature materials purchased from the dollar store, with projects that are less than $10.  CROQ Zine, a print magazine devoted to hip crafting, and also CraftFail, a community blog that encourages crafters to share their not-so-successful craft attempts.

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Little Birdie Secrets are contributing writers for Home Projects.

Little Birdie Secrets was born from the crafting obsession of three friends living in the Pacific Northwest. Little Birdie’s mission is to share the wealth of fun projects and helpful tips they find in books, on the Internet, and sometimes in their own imaginations. And if you love the end result but hate the mess, they often sell their extra projects on their Etsy sites (they gotta finance our habit somehow!) They hope their efforts will inspire you to be creative in every aspect of your life.

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Kami Bigler is a contributing writer for Home Projects.

She’s a self-described thrift-addict who runs the blog: NoBiggie.net – a montage of her three favorite creative outlets: crafting, cooking, and thrifting. Her interests include portrait and tabletop photography, paper crafts, decorating and experiencing the thrill of the thrift find. Kami graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in Public Relations and loves spending time with her husband and their two children.

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Jane Maynard is a contributing writer for Recipes.

Jane is a wife, mom, blogger & graphic designer living in the Bay Area. A busy mama who loves good food & simplicity, Jane shares weekly menu planning ideas & other delicious inspiration on her food blog, This Week for Dinner™. Jane also writes for Silicon Valley Moms Blog & has contributed at RealSimple.com. When she’s not writing or designing corporate brochures, Jane loves playing with her daughters & eating chocolate chip cookies.

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Lindsey Johnson is a contributing writer for Recipes.

She is a former food blogger (http://cafejohnsonia.blogspot.com) and stay-at-home mother to three young children.  In her spare time loves to cook, bake, entertain and take pictures.  Her favorite thing is to find a great recipe and share it with everyone she knows.

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Maria Lichy is a contributing writer for Recipes.

Maria and her husband, Josh, are Two Peas and Their Pod. They are known as the “cooking couple” and are a great team in the kitchen. They love trying new recipes, flavors, and techniques and sharing their creations with the world. They try to keep things healthy, but they always save room for dessert. Maria loves to bake cookies-they have over 70 cookie recipes on their blog. And when Maria is not in the kitchen, she enjoys traveling, exercising, reading, and playing with her nieces and nephew.