Make and TakesIdeas and Crafty Tidbits for Home, Family, and Fun

Today’s giveaway is an actual “Make and Take”! We get to learn how to make these fabulously simple pendants and a winner gets to take one of them home as well. Home Studio, the hugely successful Etsy company, is sharing with us how they make their Scrabble Tile Pendants and giving one away to a Make and Takes reader!

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Cindy at Skip to My Lou has asked me to guest post a fun storytime and activity over at her blog. She’s celebrating a week of books and getting people excited to read, spreading the word about Read to Feed. So for today’s storytime, come visit me at Skip to My Lou to see what craziness a few silly [...] Continue Reading…

Thanks to all of you who entered! One lucky winner was chosen at random through the website Random.org. #16 Shana is the winner of an entire case of Fizzy Lizzy. I’ll get your information to Lizzy and she’ll ship off your bubbly bottles. Congrats and happy fizzing!

Keeping your children’s puzzles organized can be a frustrating task. When half the puzzle pieces are missing, no one wants to play with them. Who here has a drawer filled with the missing pieces just waiting to find their homes?

Here’s a couple things I do to keep my puzzles organized.

Buy 1 or 2 gallon plastic zip bags. Place one [...] Continue Reading…

I needed a dessert for a party and wanted something with chocolate. After searching my cupboards, I came up with a few supplies I knew I could throw together. I found chocolate pudding, but added whipped cream I had in the fridge to make it fluffier. Then scooped this all on a graham cracker crust, and Chocolate Pudding Pie [...] Continue Reading…

This idea for a Backpack Date came from my friend Heather. Each child that goes into Kindergarten gets to go with Grandma to the store and pick out a backpack, then they go to lunch. I thought this was such a fun tradition, I decided to do it myself. Since my son is starting Kindergarten this year, he got [...] Continue Reading…

I’ve written before about carbonated fruit drinks and how much I love them. Well, have you tried Fizzy Lizzy? This fizzy lady is an all natural sparkling fruit drink, with “no gunk and no junk”. You can’t get more natural than this drink, there’s even a comparison page to prove it.

They have every kind of fruit flavor you could [...] Continue Reading…

Today’s storytime is the perfect book to read to a child who may be a little apprehensive about starting school. The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn is about a young raccoon who doesn’t want to leave home to go to school. His mother gives him a reassuring kiss in his hand that he’ll always have with him, no matter [...] Continue Reading…

Charli, from Texas Mama is our guest make and taker today, sharing how she organizes her daughters accessories. Every girl knows you can’t have just one purse, am I right ladies? So Charli is showing us her way to keep them all in place, ready for playtime.

My daughter, Hali has more purses than I do. Previously, we’d been keeping [...] Continue Reading…

I’ve been growing Basil in the garden for one purpose, Pesto! With only 4 ingredients, this yummy green sauce is so easy to make. It goes great with pasta, pizza, sandwiches, and is perfect as a dip for a crusty bread. I could probably eat it for every meal, it’s that good.

I’ve been excited to make my own pesto [...] Continue Reading…