DIY Dog Costumes for Halloween!

October 12, 2020October 11, 20205 Comments

Hello! How is everyone doing this week? We’ve been having some wonderful fall weather here! We usually don’t have much of a fall, so this is a welcome change. On Saturday night, our little family went to a corn maze and had so much fun! We actually were able to find all 12 checkpoints and only got lost a couple of times.

This week we are looking forward to Halloween (it is only a couple weeks away if you weren’t aware). And we are taking a look at some Halloween costumes for our furry friends! Now, my cats would think that it’s the worst thing in the world to be dressed up in a costume, but other people will dress their pets up for each Halloween. So here are some ideas for you if you have decided to dress up your pet but you don’t have any ideas. Enjoy!

This is so simple, but so cute!

Ty Beanie Baby Tag from Dream A Little Bigger

My Maggie would look perfect as a lion!

Lion Costume from Instructables

Yummy! I’m actually dressing mine up as snacks this year, so this one might be a possibility.

Hostess Cupcake from Sew Doggy Style

Aww! So sweet!

Flower Costume from DIY Network

For this one, you can use a jacket you already own and just add felt to the back!

DIY Dinosaur Jacket from Crafty Carmen

Here is another snack costume. She looks good enough to eat!

S’mores Costume from Studio DIY

Wouldn’t this be cute on some little tiny puppy? It would be all loofa!

Loofa Dog Costume from Crafts by Courtney

Argh Matey!

Pirate Costume from Luigi and Me

Perfect addition to your little Elsa and Anna!

Easy Sven Costume from Ella Claire Inspired

Soooo Cute!!!

Puppy Fairy Wings from Instructables

I hope you all have a safe and happy Halloween!

Cute Valentine’s Day Printable

February 7, 2020February 6, 20201 Comment

Good morning! I hope everyone is doing well this week! We are just a week away from Valentine’s Day and we could not be more excited!

We have a special featured guest post for you this week. Gabrielle from Siege Media was kind enough to send us this cute printable to share with you! I hope you enjoy the printable and her little post.

Valentine’s Day is coming up fast, and it’s the perfect time to share love and appreciation for each other. There’s nothing better than spending quality time with your family and enjoying a festive activity together. These folding heart cards are easy to create and provide just enough space for customization.

To get started, print out several of the cards below. Don’t forget to print front-to-back to make sure the pattern is on both sides. Cozy up in some pajamas, play your favorite music, and get crafting! You can also turn the activity into a fun pajama party and play some games, too. You’ll be making Valentine’s Day memories before you know it.

I downloaded the printable and did it myself. I made each of my kitties a cute little Valentine! Neither of them were super thrilled with receiving a piece of paper but they were mostly good sports about taking photos. I made the heart envelopes on cardstock to make sure they were more stable.

Click here to download the printable card.

Gifts to Print for You!

November 27, 2019November 26, 20192 Comments

Good morning! I hope everyone is ready for Thanksgiving! I cannot believe that it is tomorrow! I still have some baking to do before the big turkey day, so I better get going on that…

Welcome to the 5th annual 12 Days of Holiday Ideas event, hosted by Shirley of Intelligent Domestications and Erlene of My Pinterventures Between Nov. 11th and December 6th there will be hundreds of new ideas shared by over 55 Co-host bloggers!

Go here to see our kick-off collection of Holiday ideas as well as all of this years talented participating DIY and Foodie Blogs. Download this years November and December calendars with all of the topics and dates so you can make plans to watch for ideas!

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This blog post is about printables. We have 4 different printables for you today and I hope that you enjoy them. They were fun to make!

The first printable I have is actually from a previous blog post for the 2019 Christmas Blog Hop post. This printable is a Christmas To Do Coloring Page. This is a cute Christmas tree with ornaments on it. Some of the ornaments have Christmas activities that you can do and others are empty to put your own Christmas activities in. Click on the link below to download the printable and use it yourself!

Christmas To Do Coloring Page

The other printables that we have are all gift tags. There are three different kinds of tags for your Christmas gifts. There are blue circular tags that fold over so you can hide the to and from on the inside. The second tags are pink (my favorite) with cute little pink Christmas trees on the front and the third ones are silver with little black reindeer. These are all easy to punch a hole in to tie a ribbon through it.

Gift Tags 1

Gift Tags 2

Gift Tags 3

And that’s it! It’s not very much, but we enjoyed putting this all together. I know I personally will be using the Christmas To Do List because it’s a great way to keep my Christmas organized. And I will definitely use the pink tags for all of my Christmas gifts. Let me know if you are going to be using any of these for your Christmas!

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A Clowder of Christmas Cat Ornaments!

November 25, 2019November 25, 201912 Comments

Good morning! How was everyone’s weekend? Mine was crazy busy, but it was fun. I celebrated one Thanksgiving already and I ate so much food! I basically had to be rolled out the front door to my car that’s how much food I ate. But it was a wonderful day with family and I wouldn’t change anything.

*This post is sponsored by DecoArt. All opinions given in this blog post are my own.*

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Today we are showing you how to make your very own ornament! And I promise, this isn’t super complicated. It can be done in one afternoon if you wanted.

Now as some of you may know, I have 2 cats named Target and Amelia. I love my crazy cats and I have cat ornaments that look like them. But, I knew I wanted some other cat ornaments for my Christmas tree to spice it up a bit. So I am here to give you instructions on how to make your own cat ornaments!

Things you need:

-Popsicle Sticks

-Paint

-Pipe Cleaners

-Colored Felt

-String

-Hot Glue

-Sharpie

Step 1: Paint the Popsicle Sticks

This step is pretty self explanatory, but it’s still the first thing I did. I used the awesome paint from our sponsor DecoArt! DecoArt is one of the sponsors for the 12 Days of Christmas and they graciously sent us 8 different paint colors to use to our hearts content. They are also part of the giveaway at the bottom of the blog posts so make sure to check that out! We appreciate them sending us the paint and sponsoring this blog post!

My personal favorites are the pink, red, and dark blue. The darker colors covered the popsicle sticks really well, but I had a bit of trouble with the silver. It didn’t show up on the wood, so I would suggest using it as a top layer to add some sparkle on your project. The light green was okay but it was kind of streaky so I was not a fan of that one either. But I painted the sticks to prep them for step 2.

Step 2: Make your Pipe Cleaner Tails and Glue to the Popsicle Stick

I tried to match the pipe cleaner to the correct paint but unfortunately I didn’t have purple or dark green, so I used colors that looked good together. I tried to make my tails look a little different so my cats had some character. Here is what my blue tail looked like!

I did have to bend the tails just a smidge so that way I could glue it to the Popsicle stick, but it didn’t hurt the tail at all. I put a small amount of glue on the Popsicle stick so that I could stick the two pieces together.

Here’s all of my cats with their tails!

Step 3: Draw a Face on your Cat

I used a fine point sharpie to draw a little face on the cat, but you might be able to use a regular sharpie on a bigger Popsicle stick. I drew two little eyes, a nose, a mouth, and 3 whiskers on each side.

Step 4: Glue a String Loop to the Cat

You can do this step a couple different ways depending on how you want to hang your cat ornament. I took a bit of thread and hot glued it to the back of the head side of the cat. You can use twine or even an ornament hook if you wanted, but you will need some hot glue to hold it together!

Step 5: Make Ears and Scarves out of Felt

Originally, I was going to end here. But I didn’t think the cats looked quite right without some tiny ears and some cute scarves. So I cut some felt that matched my cat bodies to make some tiny little ears and some red and yellow felt for some wintery scarves.

Step 6: Admire Your Cute Kitties!

I think they turned out so cute! I now have a clowder of cats for my Christmas Tree which will be perfect to add with my Target and Amelia ornaments. I hope you enjoyed this cute tutorial and thank you to DecoArt for the paint! See you on Wednesday for the next blog post!

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Oriental Trading winner will receive an OrientalTrading.com gift card valued at $200!

Cabot Cheese winner will receive a gift basket of Cabot products valued at $75!

Burlap Fabric winner will receive a prize pack of products valued at $50!

Zulay Kitchens winner will receive one Milk Frother and a Lemon Squeezer valued at $21

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Fun Christmas Activity for Kids

November 15, 2019November 19, 20194 Comments

Good morning! How has everyone’s week been? I am so happy that today is Friday. Not because it’s been a really long week, but it’s the weekend and I have a lot of fun stuff planned. So I cannot wait for Friday to be over!

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We are continuing on the 12 days of Christmas with a fun Kids Activity! Or, a fun day for kids, whichever you prefer. We decided to go with an afternoon of fun for the kids and Oriental Trading Company has helped us tremendously with this! They were gracious enough to give us some of the supplies needed to complete our fun afternoon!

My inspiration was a fun little girl Paris party. We wanted to have some Eiffel Towers and lots of pink! Of course this is my kind of party! We wanted white, Eiffel Towers, pink, silver, gold, snacks, and a fun activity. Thankfully, Oriental Trading was able to help us out with some of these things.

So we started our afternoon by setting the table. We had a beautiful faux fur table runner (I’ll just say that mom and I have really enjoyed petting it, it’s SOOO SOFT) and we used it as a faux snow for our centerpiece. We had some white houses that we used to decorate last year and some Eiffel Towers that I have as decoration around my apartment. And of course to make it Christmassy we added some cute sisal trees. Honestly, how cute is it?

Since this is a kids party, we knew we had to have some fun activities. We found these coloring page placemats on Oriental’s website and knew that these would be perfect for our party. Unfortunately, we didn’t have any kids who were there while setting up for our party, so mom and I got to color the placemats. And Munchy helped!

Since every good party needs some snacks, we thought the coolest thing would to have a cupcake decorating station. So we have some cupcakes that we decorated with pink and green sprinkles from Oriental Trading. Who knew you could buy a whole pound of sprinkles from Oriental Trading? We also got these cute cupcake carriers from Oriental Trading. There are so many different designs of cupcake carriers so you can pick your favorites. Of course, I picked the pink chevron design! The carriers fit two cupcakes or a lot of cookies if you wanted.

The other fun activity we picked out for kids was making an ornament. We found all of the items needed on Oriental Trading’s website. We found these cute open face clear ornaments and I knew what I wanted. I found fake snow, cute deer ornaments, and some tiny sisal trees. Now, some of the deer were too big for the ornaments but the little fawns were perfect size. So with a little hot glue, we were able to glue the deer and the trees into the ornaments before pouring the fake snow in the bottom. How cute are they! And even though the ornaments may require a little adult supervision but they would be cute gifts to take home.

And that’s it! This is totally my kind of party. How fun would this be for kids, or adults? We had so much fun making everything for this party and we can’t wait to actually have a party with our nieces! So thank you to Oriental Trading for helping us set up our Kid’s Activity Party. And thank you for stopping by! See you on Monday!

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MEET OUR SPONSORS who have generously donated fabulous prizes for the Big Christmas Giveaway!

DecoArt winner will receive a prize package valued at $100!

Dixie Crystals/Imperial Sugar winner will receive a Keurig Coffee Maker valued at $100!

Oriental Trading winner will receive an OrientalTrading.com gift card valued at $200!

Cabot Cheese winner will receive a gift basket of Cabot products valued at $75!

Burlap Fabric winner will receive a prize pack of products valued at $50!

Zulay Kitchens winner will receive one Milk Frother and a Lemon Squeezer valued at $21

It’s Home To You winner will receive one wooden Santa sign valued at $65

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