Cake mix and sprinkles cookies with darling Halloween gift tags are a great treat to BOO your neighbors, friends and co-workers with! The recipe is crazy easy (like super amazing easy peasy) and the cookies are delicious. Of course homemade treats go best with handmade gift tags. The gift tags are made with custom self-inking stamps that I design for Expressionery. We love them around here because they make personalizing …
These giant Oly*Fun yard ghosts are a fantastic addition to Halloween decorations! They are easy to create and add such an element of festivity to your yard for the spookiest and most magical season of them all. I don’t know about you but our neighborhood goes all out when it comes to adding flair to the season. From lights and blow up things to door wreaths and yard signs, you …
This wood slice pumpkin wreath is the kick-off post for my 2018 Happy and Haunted Halloween series. I wasn’t sure how it would turn out but I am pretty pleased with it and love having it hanging in my kitchen as I type out this post. It was pretty easy peasy to make so I am excited to share it because YOU can do it too and be totally successful. …
Create kindness rocks to create and spread cheer. How do you feel about spreading kindness. If you have been here long on Me and My INKlings then you know it is super important to me. Let’s kick this off with the WHY Kindness matters. Did you know…. Being kind is FREE. My heart fills up fastest when I am being kind. Kind acts connect people and connection is healing. It …
Earlier this week I attended a blogger dinner event sponsored by Sprouts (a crazy awesome place to buy fabulous foods), RollinGreens and Grain Trust. It is always fun to meet up with fellow bloggers and learn about new products and ideas. This was my first time EVER hearing about millets! If you don’t already know about them they I am super excited to be the one to introduce you to …
This classroom mascot with a journal pocket is so much fun. It offers a fantastic way to create home/school connections between students, parents and classmates. It is an easy peasy sewing project that takes only an hour our so to complete. I love that it is darling and durable. It is soft like a pillow on one side and hard on the other with the book in the pocket. This …
These back to school bookmarks and tags are great for marking a page in a book or decorating supply jars. I mostly love that they are sock monkey bookmarks! They can also be used as a reading tool to keep the place of the emergent reader. They are so fun to make because they feature one of my favorite crafting tools, the Creation Station from Xyron. This post is sponsored …
Both of the girls are in Spanish this year and I am headed off to Mexico tomorrow for a week. We decided that the best choice for an after school snack that would be refreshing on a really-still-summertime day would be a non-alcoholic “Sangria” mocktail style fruit punch. I whipped up this family friendly recipe with my favorite CherryMan syrup and fruit to celebrate the season. I think it would …
I recently read an article about kids that arrive in class without a pencil to do their work. There are so many reasons why this happens and I just love the idea to give them a pencil. I created this Give Them a Pencil DIY jar with Sculpey’s Bake Shop clay. My thought is this. Maybe the teachers who fight against giving out pencils to kids who need them will …
Just the other day I received a box of multi-surface satin Americana paints from DecoArt. I was so excited to try them out on different surfaces so I grabbed up a few things from my studio including cork and screen mesh. I am ready to share three easy peasy back to school hand painted decor ideas in this post and hope you are inspired to try one or all of …