PRINTABLES

We MOVED! all of a sudden these are coming to my attention … I wonder why.

A journaling page all about food this is fun, it gives suggestions for things to write about, or notes to make. One of those things you REALLY wanted to remember in 5 years … now you can.

Another printable journal page this one weighs on the humorous side. Kinda like the list you make in your head and then the voice that talks back to it.

BEAUTIFUL free printable art Um, yes. I cannot wait to print and frame some of these for the new house. My favorite is “I like people who smile when it’s raining”.

It’s that time of year, CAN SOMETHING and have a party to do so. Bring the wine, the host will love you … well, she already does because you got this invitation in the mail. Post Mail. Awhhhh Yeeeeaah. Snap.

Nature Scavenger Hunt this is on our Summer Jar list … a treasure hunt I called it. But still! I love that the work is done for me and we’re guaranteed an afternoon of the outdoors and adventure.

Castle Peeps Book Plates I would love to start a tradition of buying a brand new book and then letting my daughter write her own name in the book plate … I have very few books from my childhood and I don’t think any of them have my penmanship in them. I just love the nostalgia of it.

Ice Cream Sundae PASSPORT Genius. What a great idea! And no matter that we’ve already been to a few ice cream shops this year, we’ll HAVE to go again because the passport needs it’s STAMP!! (Another Summer Jar item? Or maybe just a weekly outing?) I love this idea.

Recipe card so lovely. A great way to make a personal and inexpensive gift feel very expensive and very thoughtful.

MAKE STUFF

Felted roast chicken I’m not usually a fan of the felted toys. Just not my thing, I guess … but this one tickled me. Maybe because I could see myself using it more as decoration or a prop of some kind than my kids actually playing with it. For instance. A great “take along” to a pot luck, they just said a dish to pass, am I right? Or how about forgetting that it was 5:30 and dinner should be ready soon … throw the fake chicken on the table with a side of canned corn. THEY’LL NEVER KNOW.

Turn an old tin into a magnet so easy, so affordable, so cute.

Super simple wind scarf Not sure when I would actually wear this, but I like the idea of it. Maybe for that one time a summer we ride a boat? Or maybe this will inspire me to make reservations on that boat-dinner-cruise. Could be very classy.

Fabric Pup tent oh yes. I would like this just so I can take this photo, only it’d be my kids inside. Such a great idea. And a great addition to any child’s imagination.

What’s all the fuss about finger painting? Right. This. Don’t have kids but still want some do-it-yourself art … this is a great application. Or maybe you have furbabies? Get their paws in on this one.

Living masterpiece I’d like to see an entire town get in on this one … a garden tour turned museumesque exhibit? Or the local arts council get behind this and there’s ticket sales for the show. I know my daughter would FREAK OUT if she were part of an exhibit that people came to see because of her.

Zigzag accordion book HOW TO. These are fun and an easy addition to a gift with a dollar limit. Trading names for the holidays? Or on a tight gift budget for showers and birthdays? The recipient always loves something that will continue to give after the first initial unwrapping.

Speaking of gifts, be the envy of everyone there wrap it with extraordinary detail.

Crochet a necklace circa 1937. Classic.

I’m all about the braids my daughter finally has hair that will tame itself into a french braid … really anything other than a baby clip and I’ve been having a blast playing with it. This is such an original way to do it. Can’t wait to give it a go.

Rose wreath I want to make this RIGHT NOW.

You’re not allowed to be afraid of something that is so pretty. Get over the jitters and do yourself a favor. Get to know your insects.

Simple bias tape purse a great beginner project.

Make beautiful things … if they have to sit around they might as well be pretty to look at. Stop using the faux glass plastic coasters that look like it just rained. No really. I’ve been meaning to tell you how bad they look … so has everyone else who has to use them because you’re varnished coffee table is “getting you through til you can afford the new living room set”.

Make some paper dolls a free printable! (There’s a mermaid!!)

Earrings, in 30 minutes no need to run to the drug store for those hoop earrings that look nothing like it mattered.

Dinosaur bone necklace this one is a keeper. I love the idea and for an advance jewelry maker-child, this would be amazing.

Knit, Craft, Sew who says the right and left brain never get along? Science geeks and Sewers UNITE!

Tiered Trays These are not food or dishwasher safe but they ARE amazing. And if you’re creative enough to make these, then you’re creative enough to figure out how to utilize them with food. (Doilies, cupcake liners, napkins … etc)

All kinds of goodness There’s a good 5 projects on this one page. So get ready.

Mustache! I am in DIRE need of making these for a photo shoot with my 2 year old. You agree?

A 3-D Owl have a rainy day to spend? Or a craft night? This is a little more involved, but the payoff is totally worth it.

iDad Card Fathers Day is passed, yes, but this genius can be tucked away for a special occasion … or just because you love the Dad’s in your life.

Summer Paper Lanterns If I have a sickness with buntings and printable art, my daughter has a sickness with paper in general. And paper that you fan and cut? STOP IT. She’s foaming at the mouth.

This is a bib necklace, for you … not them and please make it. This is breath taking.

Twig Flower Pot Classic and timeless.

Make a vintage sign Oooooh. This is interesting.

Rag wreath Perfect time of year! Beachy.

Etching on glass tutorial Seriously, I should have googled this years ago. I could have saved SO much money on bridal shower gifts and wedding gifts. I’ll be doing this one, soon!!!

Make a Bird Cage bridal veil Lovely.

Free Invitations set for a wedding, and I think customizable enough for other uses as well. There are AMAZING invitation and stationary designers out there. They should be paid what they are worth. If you cannot pay or are short on time you don’t have to go to Walmart for the 4X6 photo invite. That’s tacky. Please stop doing that. Do this instead. Here’s a few more, Download and Print.

A Cup of Tea is All I Need Free print, and how to (make it pretty).

Do you knit? please make these.

Or these tiny alligators. Our car trips would be the same loudness but less whinny, I feel, if there were a family of alligators to be roaring about.

How to paint on glass Learning how to throw glass is on my Life List so once I’ve done that, I can come home and paint it. Or, I could just paint some, because this rocks.

Create your own bookend which could also be a really cool door stopper, or just decoration.

How to make a dry erase board. We love us some dry erase boards in this house. LOVE THEM.

DIY cork board with flower push pins I want to make those push pins because they’re great. Then I want to hang this cork board in every room of my house and be very organized. Some day, if I keep telling myself this, I will be organized.

Learn how to rag-tie curl We tried this when I was little. I loved it. Now I just braid my daughters hair for her to have this effect, but it’s kinky. Can’t wait to try this too!

Make a fairy out of paper – I know someone who might like this

Gourd planter Wow. Yes. YES PLEASE.

Recycle bottles into votive holders this is interesting and very pretty. But I’m worried the plastic will melt? No? Either way, super fun project to try.

DIY favors or a neighborhood treat, 4th of July “pretty” … this could go so many ways. I love the simpleness of it.

Yay, good idea. Done and done.

Beautiful clothes pins What is it with all things floral? I love them.

UM! Make your own birthday calendar GENIUS. I spent a good $40 on one of these at a craft fair a couple years ago and love it. It was worth the money because I knew someone spend the time on it and it was themed per month, so … you know, special. But … This is easy. And simple. AND. AND. I love it.

Ribbon flowers again with the floral. Maybe you can’t afford to buy fresh flowers for a gift, new mother, hostess … whatever. But there are SO many ways to make a flower … it’s really amazing.

Recycled wood (pallets) table I’d love to make a version of this for outdoors.

Laminated cup holder, stroller this is all kinds of helpful because neither of the {crappy} strollers we have came with a cup holder for the parent or child.

Oversized Pick-Up sticks outdoor game.

Lovely little bag we have a small addiction to all things baggish around here. It’s my daughters addiction … and I would be ok with it if they all looked like this.

Party ruffle hats this is a gem, scroll down for the DIY how to on the hats. ADORABLE.

Super cute photobooth idea for all kinds of parties.

Happy Summer gift tags Popsicles. I have so many memories of making our own popsicles every summer. Tupperware, the emotions you hold.

Journaling Labels I think I’m addicted to things I can print and save in a file folder. I should use them. All.

All in one letter and envelope and this one I will.

Are you couponer this might help all those papers flying around your kitchen.

Woodland Chandelier STOP IT.

Hair accessories that rock no really. This is beautiful. Now all I need is a mess of long hair to tease and insert feathers into.

If I could write the sound I make when I gasp I would write it here Breath taking. I want to try this. Ok, I will.

Pillow ribbon embroidery I’ve been wanting to turn some of my daughters drawings into embroidery on some pillows. I think this technique.

Meal planning magnets Now. Is there really any argument for why you shouldn’t be doing this?

Button flower headbands I’d like them in the range of colors from the rainbow.

Initial this a wreath.

Cupcake decor for bbq’s. And? This summer just got more beautiful.

A HAT! I’m smitten with hats. Maybe you already know that?

Now, for a tangent. Here is a calendar for the summer months that you should all print out and fill with wonderful adventures for you, your dog, your family. Live life, people. LIVE IT. Then … Do this, make a summer jar so that you won’t get stuck with the “I’m bored’s” of the Wednesday slump which, all too often, turns into the whole summer. And THEN join me in the 14 weeks of summer carnival with Stacey because let’s all be completely honest here, we can do that right? Lets all try a little harder to catch ourselves before we complain about the drudgery of parenting, the drudgery of owning a pet or taking care of parents. This is life, this is where we are right now. It will change. And in 14 very short weeks, the schedule will return. And for me, that means sending one of mine off into a weekly whirlwind that will control her life for the next 13 years.

This summer is kind of special. But every summer is. Every day is.

Every single one.

Now … back to this Make a sack lunch exceptional, then picnic in the park.

Garden lantern oh how lovely.

Summer tote The rope! The Flower! My, oh my.

Recycled toilet paper rolls have, literally, never been so pretty.

Make a chalk board sign then have the best looking garage sale or bake sale on your block.

Felt Finger Puppets stop it with the adorable-cuteness. I don’t have enough time in the day to play with all of this stuff.

Fathers day fish card Be still my heart. My son just got his first fishing pole on his birthday (which reminds me, who asked me where we got that?? I’ll find out!) so fishing with dad is now a reality and it kind of makes me want to cry because of the picture I get in my head of my boys sitting on a dock together with the fog rising. Also? STOP YELLING AT ME, OVARIES.

Simple felted flowers {Hair} Oh excuse me? You’re delightful. You’re welcome.

Easy Bunting, CHEAP! Again with the addiction to paper and bunting. I have a sickness but I love trees. We’re confused, too.

Fathers Day frame I’ve always loved the parts of antique stores where they have old farming equipment laying around or old drill bits, rusted tools and manly looking thingers. I’ve also always wanted to make a “bouquet” out of them … I love getting flowers, personally, but I’m pretty sure a guy likes to be acknowledged and well, that’s one idea. So this frame? Is perfectly perfect in my brain. I love it.

More Fathers Day Madness cuff link cards? CUFF LINK CARDS! Seriously, genius. That Martha, she knows her crafts.

DIY shape word art this is beautiful.

Pop out cards for Fathers Day Great idea for any occasion and homemade cards.

I like marshmallows and I’m pretty sure I have two small humans who would LOVE to make these with them.

Hooded Beach towel Tutorial AND movie. I like this. I like this a lot.

Jewelry like this takes my breath away. That’s reason enough, isn’t it?

Flower petal necklace delicate and feminine. Wait, I have one of those … only I call her something else. Magical. Yup. That’s the one.

Again with the heart stopping Make a beaded chandelier.
Here’s my list of things to do:
1. Win lots of money so I can …
2. Landscape my yard
3. Add sprinkling
4. Build a tree house
5. Scour Knock Off Wood for the perfect out door furnitrue
6. Make it
7. Buy a red umbrella for outside
8. Make this chandelier
9. Hang it
10. Sip lemonade under the umbrella while my kids pick flowers and make sand castles.
11. Have a tea party.

Make a crown for the ruler of your heart.

Rainbows! I think we’ll be celebrating my daughters January birth in July this year, just so we can have a theme that doesn’t include indoor festivities and snow covered windows.

Headband these are kind of all the rage right now. And I know why.

AIRPLANE! Ha! HA! YES PLEASE! My dad is a pilot with American Airlines. Oh? You didn’t know? Well, now you do. Planes have been a constant in my life since birth. They don’t scare me, they’re beautiful and they’re eerily majestic in their steel-building quality, laying flat and running through wind. They enchant me. And, how lucky am I?, they enchant my son now, too.

Printable card So pretty.

Beauty is A VERB.

Cake box I didn’t have a barbie doll house growing up. We didn’t even have barbies. Lie, we each had one, my sister and I. But we did have a box and some markers and we made that box into a castle for our barbies. There’s something about cardboard that really stretches the imagination if you give a child half a mind to wander a bit. All that plastic? All those accessories for a life that doesn’t exist? Garbage. Now, go make something.

Bunting again Only this one’s circular.

Matchbook These are so original! I love them! I want some!

Apron or Tool belt?

Hooded towel again with the usefulness and adorable-ness.

Embroider a felt bag and this is stunning.

Add a favorite recipe – this is the season for weddings, showers and graduations … this could be a great jumping off point for a DIY gift.

Make your own flower pin which I am now in love with since wearing some from Elegant Elle but also? the accessories from List Lady Katie I’ve had to hide that necklace from my daughter.

Speaking of kids, make these with some.

Or this jellyfish we’ve actually made a version of this in our house already and it’s amazing how much they love just watching them interact with the air or the wind. Plus, it’s adorable.

Milk anyone? Make these printable milk cartons for your next slumber parties mid-night snack. Or for your next Birthday Breakfast. Or just because they’re awesome.

Rainbow stationary. RAINBOW STATIONARY!!! My daughter loves to get mail, what 5 year old doesn’t? And if we had some of this rainbow stationary around we’d be buying stock in stamps because she also LOVES to send mail.

Fox garland adorable.

Free printable bunting oh my word, why am I addicted to garland and bunting?

Make a headband which I can’t wait to gather up all the “make some hair accessories” links and start doing some of that with my daughter. She’s getting in to liking her hair out of her face and being a girl is, well, pretty awesome.

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Things to Love and Things to Do … today is brought to you with much celebration as it’s also my son’s second birthday. My second anniversary of being a mother to plural children, our daughters celebration and birth into sisterhood/sibling life and my husbands anniversary of a son.

It’s a great day!

Pop! Make these for your favorite teacher as it’s Teacher Appreciation week. (or it WAS, and now it’s the MONTH) Or keep this one filed away for that slumber party you’re hosting.

Recycled signs use cardboard and such to create new signs (or wall art) out of otherwise unusable goods. yay!

Smooth as buttah oh yes. Print your own shirt? OK!

Soft book pretty sure this a fabric book with transfered images from an old children’s book, which is awesome.

CORK IT Make cork Everythings, but let’s start with vases.

Drift wood wreath I will now be hunting and collecting smallish pieces of drift wood for this and my city.

Mothers Day Printables It is right around the corner. You might want to get on that.

Mothers Day Cupcake toppers so I’m here to help.

Handprints And while you or your significant other is really the one you’re celebrating lets not forget that there was that one time you wore a Crown of a different kind … which made (MADE) someone else a mother as well. You’re right. That was graphic. But seriously. Grandma loves her handprints.

Modern DIY mobile which is gorgeous and I wish I had 72 more hours before my son’s birthday party … I would be crafting the bejeesus out of these.

Photo booth sign Getting married? Organizing your sororities kissing booth fundraiser? You’re going to need this sign.

Mad Men inspired save the dates come in handy when I am obsessed with the show. No really.

CORK IT SOME MORE only this time, please make Bambi.

Lego Kirigami Hello things that make me smile. I’ll hang you in place of the white snow flakes any day.

Baby doll sling! I made one of these when my daughter was “yay” tall (picture me pointing to my knees) and she LOVED playing Mommy. It was adorable.

Car caddy Make a bag for all those trucks, books and crumbs you seem to accumulate while running to the grocery store. Don’t have kids? Oh well then, stay organized and taunt us. Either way, this is useful.

Thomas birthday party Ok, so there isn’t really a DIY in this one, but there are great ideas. Specifically I’m eyeing the cake – it’s not in the shape of a train and yet still carries the theme well. Simple is working. It’s working REALLY well.

Greek alphabet anyone? why not print out your own DIY blocks. Because you can. Also? They’re very pretty.

Printable boxes I love printables. SO so so so so much.

Recycle labels not sure why you haven’t started recycling yet? Here’s another excuse to make you feel guilty about it.

We Are All In This Together Free printable.

Spread some affirmations and maybe some hope and joy, too.

Print your own invitations for anything? For everything? Have fun!

Spring felt birds I cannot get enough of these garlands. I love them all.

Make your own laundry detergent Also? Adorable storage. This is a no brainer, you can totally do this.

Infinity Scarf I love this fabric. Also? I need a sewing class.

Birthday banner this one you can store for year after year use. Which I love.

Felt To-Go village for all those awful parents out there who, gasp!, make their children sit still and have patience. Your life just got easier.

Ombre scarf I love scarves. So much. But Martha? Can you please pay more attention to the photos, as in, we need more than one.

Easter cupcake holders Stop it right now, I’m doing this.

Bunny finger puppets Stop it again, also doing this. LOVE this.

Make a whale again with the needing a sewing class.

Make a paper hat I now have something to do for that next Tea Party I’m invited to.

Paper airplane mobile Yes.

I am in love with moss a centerpiece … or maybe a terrarium without really anything to do with dirt and water. Oh right, easier.

Grow Easter Grass Probably should have started this sooner, but I love the idea. The look.

Play kitchen from a bookshelf this is genius. Pure genius.

Paper daffodils Oh I love paper.

Frame shelves for books My weekend just got interesting.

Envelope Bunnies keep those kids busy!

Old world adorable Also, vintage AND retro – that one’s for you, Molly.