Crafts
Start the New Year with Your Own DIY Calendar!
Keeping the kids busy during holiday break? A calendar at a glance for this upcoming new year is productive and fun! Just use our free printable and tutorial.
Holidays
Family Photo Ornaments for your Christmas Tree
We teach you how to turn your favorite family photos into clever (and fun) Christmas tree ornaments that you can gift as keepsakes and/or use to decorate your own tree.
Crafts
Custom Painted Pottery Gifts (make for the best keepsakes!)
We share our been-there-done-that tips before you head to the painting pottery studio to make these great handmade and personalized gifts for family and friends.
Crafts
Flower Hair Scrunchies for the VSCO Girl (5 minute craft)
Learn to add faux flowers to the ever-popular scrunchies. This super easy craft only takes minutes and will be a hit with your VSCO girls.
Holidays
Fortune Cookies for Valentines & Lunar New Year
If you are looking for a fun way to celebrate the Lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day (both on the same day this year) give these fortune cookies (with a special message inside) a try! They make thoughtful little gifts.
Holidays
Sweet Little DIY Honey Bee Cards for Rosh Hashanah!
For Rosh Hashanah this year, we’re making some little bee cards since apples and honey are customary to eat to symbolize a sweet new year. Bees on honeycomb would be just the thing!
Holidays
Shamrock Plant Gift for St. Patrick’s Day
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and let your friend know you appreciate them with a little shamrock plant with an added sweet message on a homemade plant pot stick.
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Personalized Pencils: Be Creative
This holiday, I’m stuffing my son’s and husband’s stockings with these personalized and engraved pencils. I had the thirteen values of our Family Manifesto embossed on each pencil creating a set to gift to each. But here are other ideas.
Holidays
Tiny Holiday Matchbox Greetings and Place Cards!
For the holidays (or a winter-themed table scape), we made these adorable place cards from matchboxes. They are dioramas of winter scenes. We teach you how to make your own.
Holidays
Gingerbread Wreath Cake DIY for Christmas
We combine some of favorite holiday staples like gingerbread, chocolate and yummy orange olive oil cake into a delicious and gorgeous holiday cake.
Holidays
The Treat Tray Thief (an adorable and heartwarming holiday story)
A heartwarming story of how thanking delivery and service folks during the holidays with treats led the discovery of an unexpected but adorable local thief.
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DIY Turkey Sock Puppets for Thanksgiving
We teach you and your kids how to make a turkey sock puppet to keep the kids entertained during the long Thanksgiving dinner.
Holidays
Handprinted Turkey Apron for Thanksgiving
Teach the kids how to make a handprinted Turkey Apron to gift to a special loved one for Thanksgiving. Easy peasy craft.
Holidays
Holiday Letter Writing Advice (the Not-So-Serious Version)
Make your holiday letter a little more realistic this year with these (not very serious) tips!
Holidays
Witches’ Brew of Hot Chocolate for Halloween
We created a great treat for your Halloween party… a hot chocolate drink that resembles Witches’ Brew with the addition of some syrup and candy. Follow our easy peasy recipe here.
Holidays
Rising Wishes Mobile to Celebrate the Chinese Lantern Festival
On the 15th day of the Chinese Lunar New Year many Chinese celebrate with a Lantern Festival. Children decorate colorful lanterns. We are inspired to make our own that are safe to hang inside your home.
Crafts
Lunar New Year Craft: Year of the Dog Printable
It’s the Year of the Dog and we’ve been inspired to make this paper puppy printable for all the dog lovers out there (just like us!).
Holidays
New Year’s Confetti Poppers for Kids Tutorial
Kids can celebrate New Year’s Eve with handmade these festive confetti poppers. Learn how to make them here.
Holidays
Merry Mermaid Christmas Craft!
My daughter loves mermaids and so every holiday is an opportunity for a mermaid-themed craft, including Christmas. Here I show you how I made this mermaid snow globe tree ornament.
Holidays
Tiny Cardboard Christmas Tree Craft!
Craft your own mini Christmas tree decorations with recycled cardboard. We show you how with this tutorial. It’s pretty, easy peasy, and it keep your kids busy. Score!