(Originally shared as a guest post on Ucreate Kids here.) Holy cow … Halloween is just around the corner. That means me and my…

Happy Back To School! For the first time in eleven long years, all six of my kiddos are in school—five in elementary and one in preschool!…

Well, despite my hours of dedicated research on Pinterest, my kids still arrived at ‘bored’ last weekend. *Sigh* It’s only been a couple of weeks…

A month ago I sat at the computer trying to decide weather or not to publish a new post on Thrive. It was short…

I saw an all-call on Facebook this week from a fellow craft blogger who is fairly connected in social media circles. She was soliciting…

For the record, let me say this: painting your stairs is fairly easy, but very, very time consuming.  This is not a quick weekend project. I highly recommend painting…

How many of you have wound up with one of those freakishly large calculators or remotes from the dollar store? Kid #2 proudly came home…

And…. we’re back. It’s so nice to dust off the ‘ol blog and get back to crafting, creating and remodeling. Or rather, it’s nice…