Home Projects

Welcome to our Home Projects page. Here you'll find all kinds of projects for your home, like home decor, home crafts, quick tips, and cleaning solutions. Check out a few of our most popular posts here, or scroll down for the most recent projects.

Easter Candy Made Into Lollipop Flowers

by Marie March 18, 2010

After we filled our Spring bucket with colored green rice, we filled it with some yummy Easter candy made into lollipop flowers. Don’t you just love the idea of edible flowers?! Supplies for Easter Candy Lollipop Flowers: Springtime Bucket lollipop sticks – any size Easter candy – Reese’s peanut butter cups and eggs, Jet Puff [...]

Read the full article →

Coloring Rice Green for a Springtime Display

by Marie March 18, 2010

As I’m itching for Spring, we’re coloring our rice green today, helping to represent green grass. My own grass is now turning from brown to green and I think this Spring project is going to give it a boost. Let’s all say it together, “Stay out SUN!” Supplies for Coloring Rice: dry white rice – [...]

Read the full article →

Make Your Own Mixed-Media Lyric T-shirt

by Marie March 16, 2010

Guest post by Somer of A Little Great Music and t-shirts are two things we have in abundance at our house. I often hear one of my kids complaining to the other, “You can’t sing that, its my song.” So, I decided to collaborate with them to make t-shirts with lyrics from songs they like. [...]

Read the full article →

How to Grow Your Own Wheatgrass

by Marie March 15, 2010

We’ve grown regular grass before, but this year I wanted to try my hand at wheatgrass. It was very easy to grow, needing only a few supplies. Wheatgrass is known for nutritional benefits, but with this beautiful green color, it’s also a perfect Spring display. Supplies for Growing Wheatgrass: hard red winter wheat (found in [...]

Read the full article →

Growing Wheatgrass in Springtime Containers

by Marie March 15, 2010

When I grew my own wheatgrass, I chose a few festive containers. I wanted to test them out to see which would work the best. Here’s the results for how each container turned out. My favorite wheatgrass container: Terra Cotta Pots. These worked out fabulously. I love how the orange from the pot contrasts so [...]

Read the full article →

Bloomin’ Handmade Greeting Cards You Can Plant

by Little Birdies March 9, 2010

You’ve might have seen seed paper recently. It is homemade paper with flower seeds in it. When it is planted in the ground and given lots of TLC it will bloom into beautiful flowers you can enjoy. Here is a tutorial for a project using seed paper. First, you need to make the paper. Use [...]

Read the full article →

Weekend Make and Takes: DIY Home Projects

by Marie March 6, 2010

I love a good DIY (Do-It-Yourself) project! Saturdays are a great day for projects, and below are some really easy and fabulous ideas. I’ll be making this wall art later today, after my trip to Home Depot and the fabric store! What DIY projects are you doing today? Fabric Wall Art by Blue Cricket Designs [...]

Read the full article →

Have You Ever Used Steel Wool for Cleaning?

by Marie March 4, 2010

Every year for Christmas, my Mom gives each child a gift bag full of little odds and ends. And there’s usually our annual steel wool scrubber. It must be something from her generation, because I don’t know too many people who use these. But they are a great cleaning tool, perfect for scrubbing off those [...]

Read the full article →

What’s Curing Your Dry Rough Cracked Hands?

by Marie February 23, 2010

My poor hands. Living in Utah is great, but with the dry Winter weather here, my hands suffer. I’ve been applying all kinds of moisturizer and thought I’d share what’s been working for me. Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream: I like this, but really only for everyday use. It’s not as hard core as I want it [...]

Read the full article →

Kids Bedroom Decor: A Thrifty Little Birdcage

by Kami February 18, 2010

This little birdcage was found at my local thrift store. I knew it would be darling in my little niece’s bedroom, who’s nickname is “birdie”. Here’s the Before & After. I always love a good before and after (don’t you?!) To make the little paper birds, I used a Quickutz die cut along with American [...]

Read the full article →