I remember the very first birthday party that I threw. It was my eldest child’s 1st birthday, and I didn’t plan any of it. My mother, Mama Resourceful, along with my sisters, pulled it all together. I just came up with the theme of Sesame Street. I thought it was a great party, especially since …

Build A Portable Sandbox
It’s getting warmer, and the kids want to get outside. Mine wanted to go to the beach, but that has been difficult due to the pandemic. So what is a mom to do when you have three busy children who complain about being bored even when they are sleeping? Bring the beach to them. No …

Four Ways To Lengthen Curtains
So I have been working on a curtain post for weeks now. All because my sister asked me to write about how to hang curtains. How can I write about a commonly blogged topic and add my spin? I thought I would share about how often to change your curtains, and I struggled to write …

3 Lessons About Furniture For Your Room Design
I have spent my life moving from place to place as the child of a military service member. Then when I married my husband, I moved with him due to his job. Because I spent my life moving from place to place, I have not only become an expert at packing, I also have had …

How To Use Color Meaning In Your Decor
Colors are alive! (In my art teacher voice). Not really, but color does emit a feeling. It’s like thinking back to that delicious strawberry cake grandma used to make and how it made you feel. Okay, so none of my grandmothers made strawberry cake. I only had one grandma who baked, and she made a …

Hairpins As Ear Savers
So one of my sisters is a nurse, and she wanted a headband with buttons so that she could attach the elastic from her facemask to it. It would eliminate the pain on her ears from wearing a mask all day. My sister doesn’t sew and has made it clear that she doesn’t plan on …

Top 10 Things I Always Have on Hand for DIY Projects
You don’t have to have a craft room to have certain things that you would keep on hand for projects. I see these fantastic craft rooms of other fellow creatives, and I start to drool. You may only have a drawer where you keep things that you used for one project. Perhaps it’s that paint …

10-Minute Easy Abstract Art Painting
My family loves eggs…I mean, love them! If we were there when Humpty Dumpty fell, we would have said, “Get the cheese and vegetables! Omelets for everybody!” So you can bet that we always have egg cartons in our recycling bin. I thought about what I could do with these egg cartons…what about an easy …

Ultimate Paint and Water Gun Fun
My kids have gone stir crazy, stuck in the house during this COVID-19 pandemic. I tell my husband I work three jobs because I have my main job, my blog, and then I have to run camp “Gotta Keep Them Busy.” So I try to make their Saturdays as fun and exciting as possible. So …

Glitter Painting
I was trolling my sister’s social media account the other day and saw that she had liked a glitter painting that was for sale on Etsy. She said that she wasn’t planning on buying it because the colors didn’t match her decor. I immediately thought, I can teach her to make one of those glitter …