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Hand Stamped Penny Keychain

Hand Stamped Penny Keychain

Make your own hand stamped penny keychain with names, monograms, birth dates, or anniversaries to have an everyday reminder of the special people in your life. Makes a great DIY gift for Father’s Day or Mother’s Day. Up until last weekend, I’ve used the same key ring for nearly 15 years! It was a little metal

Birds Nest Cookie Treats

Birds Nest Cookie Treats

Birds nest cookies are an easy to make treat perfect for Easter. Kids will love helping to decorate with jelly bean eggs. Make with peanut butter and chocolate or marshmallow. Our Easter weekend included some amazing weather, upper 70’s and sunny (a little breezy, but I’ll take it!). We were able to spend some good

Personalized Mother’s Day Gifts

Personalized Mother’s Day Gifts

If you’re looking for a special gift for a mom in your life, here are some of my favorite diy personalized Mother’s Day gift ideas. These are all gifts or projects that I’ve made, click on the links below for full tutorials. Etched Mason Jar Glasses –  use your last initial or the first initial of each

DIY Personalized Cutting Boards

DIY Personalized Cutting Boards

I’m so happy with how my first wood burning projects turned out! These diy personalized cutting boards can be done in so many creative ways for yourself or as a gift. You know I had a hard time forcing myself not to do a monogram! Next time… *Some supplies links may be linking to affiliate links

Urban Classic Kitchen Update

If you’ve been following me very long, you know we did a DIY kitchen update over the last year and a half. We’ve lived in our house for ten years and likely will only be here another year or two, so while we were in dire need of an update, we wanted to stick to

March Wrap Up

March Wrap Up

Sorry for my unintentional posting absence lately. March seems like it came in like a lion and out like a lion with weather and with life. Honestly though, all is well, I’ve just been preoccupied and a little short on time to post. I’ve done a few new projects recently though, so I’ll be back

Star Wars Craft with Perler Beads

Star Wars Craft with Perler Beads

A few weeks ago I dragged Carter to the craft store with me as I got some other craft supplies. I had to convince him with the promise that we’d find something cool we could do. We decided to make some Star Wars characters out of Perler beads.   Finding craft projects for boys can be somewhat

Kiss Me, I’m Iowish

Kiss Me, I’m Iowish

Whether you’re Irish or not, who doesn’t love St. Patrick’s Day? With a name like Erin, I kind of have to have some sort of allegiance to Ireland. Plus, who doesn’t love a holiday filled with mint desserts and beer!? Since St. Patrick’s Day falls on a Monday this year, I’ll be working. I decided

Pioneer Woman’s Best Coffee Cake Ever – Review

Pioneer Woman’s Best Coffee Cake Ever – Review

Is the Pioneer Woman’s Best Coffee Cake Ever Recipe really the best coffee cake ever? Check out how my experience went with this popular recipe. The other day, I had a craving for coffee cake, which immediately sent me to Pinterest to look for a recipe. I ran across one from the Pioneer Woman which she

Inspiration Metal Stamped Wrap Bracelet

Inspiration Metal Stamped Wrap Bracelet

I tried my hand at metal stamping again, this time to recreate the metal stamped leather wrap bracelet with inspirational phrases rather than birth dates. I just love how they turned out! As I was making the ones with birth dates as gifts,  I started thinking about making them with words or phrases. I had the