How I Plan My Week

There are only four of us in our house, but I still find it very difficult to manage schedules unless I stay super organised.  I have a few tools that I use to keep myself on track.   The first thing I use is a year planner.  I like this one by Lollipop Designs. It's colourful and fun.  It took me ages to find a year...

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Pantry Cupboards ... My Guilty Secret

I love being organised, but I have a few guilty secrets.  My secrets are those places in the house that are hideous, jumbled messes, that I desperately try to hide from everyone.  Except now I am going to share one of them with you.  Here it goes ... Ghastly isn't it?  I don't have a lot of room in my kitchen cupboards...

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Easy Peasy Origami Crown

Our local craft shop was doing an origami workshop yesterday.  The girls both made some paper windmills and an origami crown.  They decorated their crowns with Washi Tape.  They both looked great, and the girls wore them all afternoon. They were so easy to make.  All you need is some coloured paper and something decorative to...

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15 Minutes + Cardboard Box, Cardboard Tube and a Glue Gun

We got yet another delivery today, and yet another cardboard box.  The girls laid claim to the box pretty fast, and were busy piling supplies into it.  After a while they dug out a cardboard tube from my stash (I think it came from a roll of wrapping paper) and came to me with the usual question - "Can you make us something with these?"  Hmm...

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Homework Boxes

Now that Olivia is heading into Year 4, we will be getting homework regularly.  Each week she has a spelling test, general knowledge test, maths homework, english homework, and other homework assignments.  To help with our organisation and routine, I made her a homework box.  I found my inspiration here, and knew it was just what we...

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Homemade Tshirts To Go With Homemade Shorts

Olivia and Samantha LOVE their summer shorts (read about them here and here).  I thought it would be nice if they had some coordinating t-shirts to go with them.  I started with some inexpensive plain white t-shirts from Amazon. I then used fabric pens and stencils to draw the main picture on the t-shirt.  These are the supplies...

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Fabulous and Affordable Magazine Boxes

After the success of my mini drawers in the downstairs cloakroom, I decided to have another go at revamping a boring Ikea storage item.  This time it was wooden magazine file boxes. Ikea Knuff Magazine File Once again, I started by giving the boxes a light sand, then used spray paint to prime and paint them.  I also gave them a light...

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