With the temperatures dropping, it’s finally beginning to feel like fall. That’s right, it’s time to get out your favorite sweaters and scarves, enjoy the crisp air and changing leaves, and indulge yourself in the sweet scents that fall brings. The fall smells are my favorite! Three that I love, alone and combined, are apple, cinnamon, […]
Easy Caramel Candy Apples
With all the fall festivals and Halloween parties happening, it’s easy to find yourself looking for treats to serve. One of the most common autumn delights are caramel apples, and for good reason! However, who can actually finish an entire caramel apple? Those things are massive. And sticky. So I tried my hand at making […]
DIY Halloween Village Display Ideas
Looking for cool Halloween Village ideas? Here is an in-depth, step-by-step tutorial for a DIY Halloween Graveyard! Fall and winter are probably the most exciting times of the year for interior and exterior decorating. Putting out model towns always seem to be so popular with village collectors. For the last 20 years there has even […]
Healthy and Delicious Pumpkin Spice Protein Powder Smoothie
With the fall season in full swing, it’s hard to resist the temptation of scrumptious seasonal sippings. You know what I mean, you’ve seen them, you’ve bought them: pumpkin spice lattes. The menus of our favorite coffee shops currently abound with whipped, spicy, pumpkin-themed drinks that, unfortunately, are loaded with sugar and not actual pumpkin. […]
Sugar Skull Makeup Tutorial [Day Of The Dead Makeup]
Here is a step-by-step Day of the Dead makeup tutorial. Día de Los Muertos or Day of the Dead, is a Mexican holiday that starts on October 31st and ends November 2nd. This is a holiday that celebrates the lives of friends and family who have died. In Mexican culture, the sugar skull is a traditional […]
Teaching Boys To Express Emotions
As a wife, I know just how important to a relationship it is for a man to be able to express his emotions and tell you how he is feeling and why. As a mother, I also think that it is important for boys (and girls) to be able to express their feelings. The first […]
Pumpkin Carving With Drill Tutorial
Halloween’s just around the corner! What are you doing to get ready for it? Are you getting excited about Jack’ O Lanterns? If you’re like me, you’re already looking forward to pumpkin carving, that once-a-year event where you scrape out the squishy, stringy insides of a squash and with orange-stained fingers, cut out chunks so […]