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Make Your Own Amazing Perler Bead Bowl

Make Your Own Amazing Perler Bead Bowl These bright and cheerful melted Perler bead bowls are so easy a three-year-old can make them! Actually, our three-year-old DID make these. Tomorrow our six and eight-year-olds want to make some too because they felt like they missed out on ALL the View Post

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DIY Danish Christmas Heart Craft. These adorable felt hearts are a wonderful way to give a gift card, small present or handmade ornament! Fun to make with kids.

How to Make a Woven Danish Christmas Heart Craft

My childhood Christmas memories came flooding back with this Danish woven Christmas Heart craft. They make adorable handcrafted ornaments and they are fun way to give a gift card. Woven Danish Christmas Heart Craft Christmas is about upholding and creating traditions. Every year families bring out View Post

Filed Under: Creative, Hygge, Printables, Winter Tagged With: Christmas, Crafts, Danish, DIY, Heart, Pin THIS!, Printable

LEGO display shelf

How to Make a LEGO Minifigure Display Shelf

How to Make a LEGO Minifigure Display Shelf Our house is drowning in LEGO Minifigures. I am constantly finding yellow heads in our laundry, little body-less plastic pants in our beds, and tiny swords get sucked up by the vacuum cleaner weekly. We are slowly being invaded by these little quirky View Post

Filed Under: Creative, LEGO, Life Style Tagged With: Danish, DIY, LEGO, Pin THIS!

How to get creative with Perler beads, Hama beads and melty beads. How to use Perler beads. Creative Perler ideas for preschoolers, toddlers and kids of all ages. Perler bead inspiration. Perler bead ideas. Perler bead patterns. #PerlerBeads #PerlerBeadPatterns #PerlerIdeas #PerlerBeadCrafts #MamaintheNow

How to Use Perler Beads and Get Creative

Fuse beads, Perler beads, fun-beads-to-stick-in-your-nose: Regardless of what you call these beads, I am THRILLED to have bought BUCKET LOADS of the little plastic cylinder-shaped beads. I spent countless hours in the 80s making coasters for my parents, grandparents and other unsuspecting View Post

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DIY Canvas Art Craft using your favorite inspirational quote or mantra. Employ your child to help with this project. Their choice of color will surprise you and will make this a statement piece.

DIY Inspirational Canvas Art Craft

I may, or may not have a slight obsession with canvas art projects, as you will see over the next few months. The versatility of creating lasting pieces of art that commemorate our little ones’ creativity is, to me, the perfect gift for relatives. I also love using our canvas art throughout the View Post

Filed Under: Creative, Motherhood Tagged With: Crafts, DIY, Happiness, live in the now, Mama's Quotes

This monogram Valentine's Day heart wreath makes quite the statement piece on your front door. Perfect home decor through spring and beyond. Beautiful mantlepiece as well.

DIY Monogram Valentine’s Day Heart Wreath

Another season is upon us, which can only mean one thing: we need another wreath for our front door. I truly enjoy creating statement pieces to adorn our front entry door and I hope you will follow these door wreath posts through the year for inspiration and ideas. This time we made a monogram View Post

Filed Under: Creative, Winter, Wreaths Tagged With: Crafts, DIY

Polymer clay Danish Christmas heart ornament. This beautiful decoration is kid-friendly and fun for kids of all ages to make. These hearts make wonderful presents too.

Polymer Clay Danish Christmas Heart Ornament

The image of a Danish Christmas heart takes me right back to my childhood filled with Danish elves and gnomes and Christmas trees with real burning candles dangling precariously on the branches. Dancing around the Christmas tree on Christmas eve, while we singing psalms in each our own off-key tune View Post

Filed Under: Creative, Heart, Hygge, Winter Tagged With: Christmas, Crafts, Danish, DIY, Kids, Pin THIS!

Thumb print polymer clay christmas ornaments. These adorable, kid-friendly gifts and decorations are easy and fun to make.

Thumb Print Polymer Clay Christmas Ornaments

Nothing says “personalized gift” as a handprint or footprint from a child. (I guess it is still a personalized gift if it is an adult’s hand or foot print, although the cuteness factor isn’t quite there.) I LOVE how our thumb print polymer clay Christmas ornaments turned out. I know I will love View Post

Filed Under: Creative, Winter Tagged With: Christmas, Crafts, DIY, Heart, Kids, Pin THIS!

Kid-friendly polymer clay christmas ornaments. These adorable DYI crafts are easy and fun to make with your kids. They may priceless presents and decorations!

Kid-Friendly Polymer Clay Christmas Ornaments

This Christmas season so far, has been my favorite of all time. I am now a stay-at-home-mom, which means… I AM HOME to craft, create, and do fun projects with the kids - and isn’t that what the holidays are about?! Togetherness and “HYGGE”! I have always loved using polymer clay as a medium. It View Post

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Start a LEGO tradition for the whole family! This will grow and expand as the years go by - and the kids will LOVE setting it up each and every year! So much fun!

Start a LEGO Tradition For The Whole Family

It is said that “if you build it, they will come!” As a little girl, living in Denmark, I took those words to heart, year after year… after year. The Danish folklore is full of tales of elves and gnomes who move into your home during Christmas time. These little creatures play harmless tricks on View Post

Filed Under: Creative, LEGO, Our Life, Reviews, Winter Tagged With: Christmas, Danish, DIY, family, Kids, LEGO, Pin THIS!, review

Quiet Toddler Activity, perfect for entertainment for the car, quiet time or while nursing a baby. Talk about feelings and teach empathy.

A “Quiet Toddler Activity” IS Possible!

Last week was rough. It was one of those weeks that will go down in the family’s history books as “a crappy” week! We will refer to it as “the great stomach bug of 2015” years from now. This virus was especially hard on baby Jonah. The only thing he could keep down was breastmilk. The only thing he View Post

Filed Under: Creative, Toddler (2-5 years) Tagged With: Crafts, DIY, Kids, Pin THIS!, Toddlerhood

DIY Spider Halloween Wreath! Make your door the focal point of the neighborhood with this fun wreath! Craft to your heart's content!

DIY Spider Halloween Wreath

Spider Halloween Wreath What is the first thing a mother does when she quits her corporate gig to stay at home with the kids? You might think the answer is “redecorate the house” or “get caught up on the countless neglected baby books.” Nope, not this mama. My very first project View Post

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LEGO Tea Candle Lights! Easy and fun DIY craft just in time for Halloween and the dark winter months.

LEGO Tea Candle Lights

As we face the time of year where the days are shorter and the nights are longer, there is nothing more comforting as family time around a table decorated with lit candles. In Danish we call this “hygge”, which is a way to describe a cozy ambiance. With all that said, what is more Danish, cozy and View Post

Filed Under: Creative, Hygge, LEGO, Life Style Tagged With: Danish, DIY, Kids, LEGO, Pin THIS!

10 Incredibly Fun Ways to Explore With Paint

Our kids LOVE to paint! Anything that involves a paint brush and color is an automatic parenting WIN in our house – and keeps ALL the kids occupied for a good while! One of my favorite bloggers Julie at Emma Owl has incredibly creative craft ideas for kids of all ages. I love her painting projects View Post

Filed Under: Creative Tagged With: Crafts, DIY, Kids, Pin THIS!, Toddlerhood

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