Once Upon a Family

Soak the hard boiled egg for a few minutes in vinegar to ready the shell to take up as much dye as possible. Wrap the egg in a paper tow...

This was so simple I wish I had known about this when my kids were little.   Put a container of Cool Whip in a cake pan.  Dot with ...

A Tale of Two Bunnies   The first one had over 20 steps to make this little bunny basket that will hold small trinkets.  Cute on t...

We're on a roll here with these wood slice projects, this time a wreath. Again super simple and inexpensive.   The wreath. For ...

I We were cleaning and burning up some brush the other day to get the yard ready for fall. When Dad was cutting the wood up I said to c...

These fire starters are made with those cotton face cleaning pads instead of cotton balls. These stack really well and a lot would fit ...

Most of the parts to the planter in the order from bottom to top of the picture how I stacked them together, I added one more saucer an...

Saw this on Pinterest.  We had the wooden blocks in a bag in the garage from another project and the paint leftover from other projects...

Spark started to go to a local art studio on Thursday nights.  For $5 they can go for three hours and all the materials are provided.  ...

Loved the Snapple bottles we decorated for Halloween so I made a couple with a Christmas theme. Paint the tops red.  It is now too ...

Cover a heavy piece of foam tag board, or an actual board would work great, with fabric.    We used hot glue and glued around the edge of...

  For December our co-op is making either Christmas gifts or decorations.  First one was stocking snowmen.  Pulled a tube sock over a l...

Years ago, when lava lamps were all the rage, we had a red one.  Then we dropped it on the stairs and that was that.  I don't know if y...

A jar that glows, pretty cool concept.  I have seen these as fairy jars touted as a great party activity or to make a summer night just a l...

  Pajama Day was on the docket for homeschool co-op and we couldn't think of a better project to do at the same time than making ti...