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March Blog

Updated: Apr 2, 2025

Spring is almost upon us and i'm making some changes around here! And I don't just mean my new hair... As most of you guys know, I’ve driven the BMW X7 for a while now and it’s time for a change. I recently test drove a BMW X3 and I loved it!  The question is.. do I go significantly smaller or do I stay at the same size? Next up, I’ll be test driving an electric SUV and I still have to get into an X5. You guys brought up some good points about being able to fit all my craft supplies in the back.. but don't worry I heard you guys and I am definitely taking that into consideration! Let me know any other recommendations you guys have!! I love that you're on this car buying journey with me.








Shower Gift 

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What you’ll need:

Wrapping paper (I used white for a bridal shower)

Tulle (again I used white but any color will work)

Doilies

Pipe cleaners

Hot glue gun


1. Wrap your gift and use the tulle to make a big bow

2. Take your paper doily and fold in half and then accordion fold in a circular fashion

3. Then unfold & fold over in the other direction to make an umbrella shape

4. Take a pipe cleaner and poke it through the middle, then curl up the bottom to make a ‘j’ shape. This is your umbrella handle

5. Attach your umbrella to the top of your gift (I used my hot glue gun)

6. Take another pipe cleaner and wrap around your finger to make a loop, then pinch the loop in the middle and twist to make a bow. Repeat this process to make as many bows as you’d like.

7. Add your bows to your umbrella and then your “shower” gift is complete!





Wrapping a Quilt

❤️✂️🧶


What you’ll need:

Quilt

Tulle

Scrap fabric

Doodly-doos for decorating (I used artificial flowers)

Pinching sheers

Hot glue gun


1. Take your quilt and fold it up however you’d like

2. Grab your tulle and make sure you have enough to wrap up the whole quilt- we’re going to use the ‘toostie roll method’ here

3. Then grab your scrap fabric and tie the ends of your toostie rolled up situation, then you can trim your ends if there is excess tulle

4. Take your pinching sheers and cut your fabric to add a little extra detail

5. Finally, attach your doodly-doos of choosing- I used artificial flowers and hot glued them onto the fabric at the ends






Toilet Paper Wrapping

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Yes... I did wrap up a roll of toilet paper! Several in fact... watch for my March Madness giveaway - details on Instagram stories!



Wine Bottle Wrapping

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What you'll need:

Champagne bottle

Beau Bottle wraps

Any other doodly-doos you'd like to add


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The Hub recap -

I had so much fun meeting and shopping with you guys! The hub is a darling boutique located in Anoka, MN. I highly recommend stopping in if you’re in the area or making a fun day trip out of it! Below, I’ve listed some local shops/restaurants in the Anoka area that I recommend stopping in and supporting the locals. My next event information is below- I hope to see you there!






Coming up next…



 
 
 

February Blog

Updated: Apr 8, 2025


I made a decision that was necessary and I've been wanting to share it with you guys because it will be a major life change for me. Last October, I filed for divorce. Because I am still going through the process, I can not share any details with you at this time. I will let you know once everything is finalized.








🩷🐝💌

Supplies needed:

Clothes pin

Yellow & black paint

Heart shaped doily

Black pipe cleaner

Googly eyes

Little pom poms



Directions:

Step 1: paint 🎨 clothespin yellow with a black stripe and black head

Step 2: get a paper doily and fold accordion style (adding a little money would make for a fun surprise 💸)

Step 3: shove doily into the clothespin

Step 4: add antenna with a pipe cleaner

Step 5: add some googley eyes 👀 and optional pompoms for a cute factor

Step 6: Give ‘Bee Mine 🐝’ to your favorite valentine❤️









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Supplies needed:

Empty vessel (I used an ice cream pale)

Mod Podge

Foam brush

Tissue paper, fabric, old Valentine’s Day cards, whatever you want to use to collage

Ribbon (optional)





Directions:

Step 1- grab your empty vessel 🪣

Step 2- remove the handle (if there is one)

Step 3-using Modpodge, tissue paper, fabric, and old valentine cards make a collage on your pail while covering the collage in mod podge

Step 4- the more you add the cuter your collage will get - no minimalism here!

Step 5- add your handle back on your bucket

Step 6 - tie on some bows to up your cute factor 🎀

Step 7- fill your bucket with valentine goodies 💌








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Supplies needed:

Squishmallow

Ice Cream Pale

Hot glue gun



Directions:

Step 1- remove the lid from your pale and cut a slot in the top (you want it large enough for valentines) 💌

Step 2- Cut off your squishmallows head and pull out fluff ☁️

Step 3- put hot glue on the bottom of your pale and glue it to the bottom of the inside of your squishmallow 🪣

Step 4- re-stuff the squishmallow around the pale

Step 5- glue the body in place at the top of the pale

Step 6- glue the squishmallow head around the lid (be mindful of your slot location) 🧸

Step 7- once you’ve attached the head 3/4 way around the lid, carefully stuff making sure to eyeball where the slot is

Step 8- cut a slit in the fabric on the head of the squishmallow and hot glue that fabric around the slit in the top of the lid ✂️

Step 9- finish hot gluing around the rest of the squishmallow head to the lid of the pale

Step 10- place the lid/head on the top of your squishmallow body and now you have the perfect valentines mailbox! 📬🧸












 
 
 

Welcome 2025!




This year, my sister and I had the idea of creating vision boards for 2025. I have never made one before, but I have plenty of wishes and goals for the upcoming year. A vision board is a collage of images and words representing goals for the upcoming year and acts as inspiration and motivation to achieve those goals. Sounds simple enough… but let’s add a fun factor! 

 I visited my local craft store and picked up a frame that I am going to use as my canvas for my 2025 vision board. My frame is 12“ x 12“ but you could use any size you’d like. To create the actual collage, I’m using a mixture of scrapbooking, papers stickers, and even images out of magazines. A really fun embellishment I recommend using on this project is stickles - which is like the puffy paint of crafting. Sickles come in all sorts of colors and a lot of times have a glittery finish. Stickles is great because the glitter stays in tact, doesn’t make a mess and it dries relatively flat. Which makes it easy to frame it in your vision board.

 This project is so fun because you can personalize it and make it your own. Pictures can stand on their own or you can add text. Also, don’t be afraid of using your own handwriting. Your handwriting is personal and unique, and will make the perfect addition to your New Year’s project.

Happy crafting!












Ingredients-

1 cup butter

1/4 cup brown sugar

2/3 corn syrup

1 tablespoon baking soda

1 bag of Puff Corn



Directions:

Preheat oven to 250


Caramel sauce:

On low heat on stove- melt butter, brown sugar and corn syrup

Once melted add baking soda


Place puff corn on baking sheet with parchment paper


Pour caramel sauce mixture onto puff corn and mix


Bake for 15mins


Remove, stir and bake for another 15mins


Dump on wax paper and separate


Cool, serve and enjoy!


You can watch the full video linked below



Merch is still available on my website!

Linked below




 
 
 
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