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It has been a while since I have posted anything new  that does not mean I have not been Crafty  but rather just busy with life.  As the new school year  is started I find myself making resolutions  to organize my family and be more crafty and decided it was time to bring back the blog to keep myself accountable for my crafty plans .To that end I have a new series in

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30 Day Organizing Challenge  Day 2 Organizing the Linen Closet Results I am taking part in MrsJanuary.com An Organized Home in 30 Days Challenge and blogging about it here. Todays Challenge was to clean out the linen closet, I started this challenge a) happy because I have been wanting to do this for quite some time and b) thinking it would be a quick

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30 Day Organizing Challenge  Day 1 Organize Your Purse, Diaper Bag or Wallet Results As part of getting back into blogging I am taking part in MrsJanuary.com An Organized Home in 30 Days Challenge and blogging about it here. Well it was late last night but I finally went to my front hall and found this mess of purses and bags that I use on a regular bases. I took all

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As part of my getting back into blogging I found this post that I had written a while back and never posted for some reason that I can not remember at the moment but it is full of little craft ideas that are great for house warming gifts. so I shall share it now  House warming Gift for a red and white kitchen. My cousin recently moved into a new house and after some investigation I

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Hello Again Everyone It has been a long time since I have taken the time to share my Craftyness with you.  This is not because I have not been crafty but more because I have gotten busy and probably a little lazy also my place is kinda messy and often I feel some tidying needs to be done before I can take pictures to show and then well .... It just kinda falls by the way side. I have

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Make Your Own Cotton Make-Up Removal Pads A Tutorial I have been a a de stashing kick lately and one of the things I have a lot of bits of is cotton yarn.  I recently renovated my Master bathroom and as a result I have been trying to de clutter and one thing I figured I could get ride of is the cotton pads and balls from under the sink (by using them) and replace them

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This past week was a week for re-purposing  some fabric to add some touches to her room. earlier in the week she asked me for a garbage can.. and while I had a few plain white ones kicking around that was just not going to do for her room so following the instructions to make the Crayon Holder I made last week, I covered an old garbage can that was not being used

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Lower Sugar Peanut Butter Cheesecake In our family I on occasion need to make a desert that is low in sugar but still satisfies that sweet tooth... Here is one of my stand bys  it is great because the cheesecake part has no added sugar, but you can make a regular crust and topping that can be made with full sugar and removed by those that do not/can't have the sugar, the crust

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Mini Marker/ Crayon Holderthat is "baby proof too" My eldest daughter recently got some mini pip sqeak markers and loves using them however there are so many of them that they often end up all over the table or floor and her little trouble maker of a baby sister tries to take them away from her! Solution Create a pretty tin to keep them in so that she can see all the colours at once, they dont

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For fathers day I took the girls out side and had a little photo shoot,  I saw this idea just after fathers day last year but for the life of me can not find the link now (so sorry).   For the letters I went to the dollar store and picked up 2 pieces of foam core and cut them out with a quilting ruler and an Exacto knife.  We then went outside for a photo shoot, once

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No Melt Popsicle Cantaloupe and blueberry flavour I have 2 Young girls at home and many nieces and neighbours that like to visit my place and when the weather begins to get hot as Popsicles are always in high demand.  I avoid artificial flavours, colours and added sugar when ever possible so I tried to make my own when ever possible, I also find that little ones

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Save your Dried out Play-Doh Sick of taking out your child's Play-doh toys to play with and find it full of dried out Play-doh?  or open that container that was only used once to find it is kinda dry now?  Dont throw it out you can bring it back to its old Play-dohey goodness! Step 1 Divide your dried out bits into piles of like colours or colours that will blend well&

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Banana Muffins I recently went on vacation and when I got home realized I had left some bananas on my counter that needed to have something done with them pronto!  So I called my mom and got her banana muffin recipe.  These mini muffins quickly became my girls new favourite treat 2 weeks and 4 or more batches later I still can not keep them in the house for more than a

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Scrappy Napkins So Lately I have been going through my bin of small scraps and using trying to use them up.  This project is great, it has allowed me to use up a large amount of small scraps and also to stop using paper napkins at  the dinner table.  This pile shown on the left is by no means the extent of the napkins I have made as I type their are another 3 napkins

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 I have been awol for a little while,  I have been crafting and recording what I do but have not had much time to type up my projects. Here is a little sample of what I have been working on,  I got a new Sewing machine last month here is a picture of the samples I made the 1st night I was playing with my machine.  The tension was still a little wonky but the new stitches are

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I like how this looks, I love the frayed edges a lot. The patch has held up fairly well, however the inside is quite frayed and unstuck around the edge. Over all I am happy I have gotten a few extra months of use out of these jeans and they are still holding up.

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Oven Method Apple Butter Any one who has ever bought apple butter at a farmers market knows it can be pricey, It really does not have to be.  for the price of a jar of unsweetened apple sauce ( a little over a dollar) you can have a wonderful jar of apple butter to enjoy at any time. If you have tiered to make apple butter before you have probably&

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The Happy Recipient The pink ruffle hat has made it to its recipient. The only issue is that she insists on wearing it with her red coat! 

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You can have a hot bowl of home cooked steel Cuts oats every morning of the week if you would like.It is actually really easy to do. I do this on a Sunday evening and then for the rest of the week all I have to do is  reheat it in the microwave and add milk and toppings/flavourings of my choice.  This week I made a half batch enough for two or three mornings in the 

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After my sister saw the hat I made for Winterama she instantly requested I make a pink one for her little angel. After a difficult search for soft chunky pale pink yarn... seriously it was so hard to find one in a nice pink! Here are the results.  I think if I make this hat again with out the stripes I will avoid the seam formed by slip-stiching each row together and just crochet

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My old university room mate recently made and posted a link on one of her blogs to some raspberry Lemon Marmajam ( half raspberry jam half lemon marmalade) and ever since then I have been wanting to try it.  so last night I finally got around to making some. I decided to add oranges to the mix since I have always loved the combination of orange and lemon I was also was hoping to

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Day Seven Today we managed to do some plumbing, put the three pieces of the tub together, pre-drill some holes and glue on supports for the shower rod and bars. Day Eight All the plumbing is finally attached... Finally able to have a bath again!

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On day five my parents arrived in order to be able to help install the new tub. I did clean of one of the old painted tiles to reveal that it was not as hideous as I once thought it must have been. On day Six  The old tub was removed, the opening for the new tub and enclosure was built including raising the celing to make room for the enclosure... and the opening of the air return vent was

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Day four the tub arrives!

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Last post of valentine crafts... at least for this year!  I saw a tutorial over at craftster quite a while ago and was reminded of it recently and decided it would be fun to do with my 3 year old while the baby slept.  this craft is perfect for all kinds of paper crafts including scrap booking. The craft involves spraying some foam shaving cream in cookie sheet and then adding some food

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