This Coffee Makes Everything Possible printable wall art will be the perfect addition to the coffee addict's home decor! I feel like the universal drink of moms everywhere is coffee. It's our lifeline, what has kept us alive and moving since that first little babe was brought home. It's no secret that I love me some coffee. I'll take it hot, iced, with cream and sugar, … [Read more...]
DIY Martini Markers
These easy to make DIY Martini Markers are a super stylish way to identify each guests' martini glass at your next party! You guys are seriously going to love today's easy peasy craft! It will be especially helpful at your next Girls Night Out...or should I say Girls Night In? I'm going to show you how to make the cutest, most stylish, and totally on trend DIY Martini … [Read more...]
Big Fun Summer Bucket List 2017
Get your summer off to a great start by creating this fun Summer Bucket List!!! You guys!! We are officially on Summer Break!!! Can you here my excitement from here!!! Long live as many carefree summer days as possible! Bring on the warm weather, less to-do lists, and more swimsuit tan lines! My big three's last day of school was this past Friday. And can I tell you we … [Read more...]
Super Cute ‘Berry’ Best Teacher Gift Idea and FREE Printable
This Berry Best Teacher Printable is a super cute and easy to make Teacher Gift Idea for the end of the school year. Tomorrow is my three big littles last day of school! I am soooo excited...summer here we come! To tell you the truth, I've had summer on my brain ever since Oliver finished up preschool last week. And now with lots of sunny weather and the fact that our … [Read more...]
Father’s Day Breakfast in Bed Menu Free Printable
Father's Day is coming up in a couple of weeks and I thought I would share the 'Breakfast in Bed' Menu free printable we made for our daddy last year. The kids were all sorts of excited in the days leading up to Father's Day that they spent one day creating a Breakfast in Bed Menu for him with breakfast items they thought he would enjoy! They were very creative and very … [Read more...]
‘Orange’ You Glad It’s Summer! Treat Cup
My littles are out of school in three days!!!! THREE DAYS!!!! So with that in mind I thought it would be fun to make them a little surprise for when they get home that very last day of school. This "Orange" You Glad It's Summer treat cup is super easy to make that even little hands can do it. They can even help fill the cups with all sorts of goodies. My littlest littles … [Read more...]
EOS Lip Balm Thank You FREE Printable
Okay, okay, okay. Just one last EOS lip balm gift idea, I swear. They are just so much fun to make and we absolutely love giving them to others as gifts. This is another great one to give to teachers, babysitters, nannies, coaches, piano teachers, etc. Anyone who has helped your child (or you!) grow throughout this past year will love this, 'Thank You for Helping Me … [Read more...]
I ‘Cereal’-sly Love Being Your Mom Cereal Topper with FREE Printable
With all the sunny and warm days we have been having, the littles and I have been spending tons of time outdoors. Ahhh, our happy place! It's always so much nicer when we can get outside and ride bikes or walk to the park, burn off some energy, and breathe in some fresh air. And of course with any outing we do, I always bring snacks. It's inevitable that at least one of my … [Read more...]
EOS Lip Balm Thank You FREE Printable
Here is another fun idea for an EOS lip balm free printable that you could give to anyone you would like to say thank you to…think teachers, coaches, friends, really anyone! Who doesn't love these fun little EOS lip balms. The lemon ones also smell super yummy so if anything get them for that! … [Read more...]
EOS Lip Balm Orange You Glad It’s Summer Card with Free Printable
It's Teacher Appreciation Week this week, y'all! A week that is totally and completely necessary in my book, teachers do sooo much! I love giving thanks to all my children's amazing teachers. They work so hard all year long and at the end of each and every year I am amazed at the amount of knowledge and skills my kids have learned!! They are all truly blessings…and I feel … [Read more...]
Top 10 in 2014
Today, I thought I would share the Top 10 posts of 2014! I love doing this every year to see what y'all liked best, I always think it is so fun to see the posts that were the most popular over past year. I love that there is a little bit of everything…recipes, sewing tutorials, crafts, gift ideas…it really is a happy walk down memory lane! Enjoy! … [Read more...]
How To Make Your Own Fleece Ear Warmers
Supplies 4 inch x 44 inch piece of fleece coordinating threadThe first thing you will need to do is get a measurement from the head of the recipient around the area that the ear warmer will be placed. My daughter is 4 years old and her measurement was 19 inches. My adult head measurement was 21.5 inches. Remember that fleece does stretch so you will have some room to … [Read more...]
Makin’ It Cute Petal Pack Review
Have you seen the new Makin' It Cute Petal Pack from Me and My Sister Designs yet? It is so cool! It's a set of plastic templates to make your own flower designs and it works great for fabric crafts as well as paper crafts. Today I thought I'd show you how I used it to make an embellishment for a Thank You card envelope. … [Read more...]
How to Make A Dolly Diaper Tutorial
Today I thought I'd bring home the project that I created for the Riley Blake Design Team back in April, How to Make a Dolly Diaper. My kids have a love for diapering their stuffed animals so I made a set of these a few years back but it was high time I made more because since then we've had two additional kids and let's face it, those diapers had seen better days! … [Read more...]
Girls’ Day In Coffee Date and Dunkin’ Donuts Bakery Series Coffee Review and Giveaway!
It's been a loooong winter folks, like real long. There has been snow, more snow, below freezing temps, school cancelations, a whole bunch of cabin fever, and if you can believe it more snow in the forecast in these parts. Which is why I think I really needed to throw a little Girls' Day In Coffee Date (<--- see what I did there…not a Girls' Night Out since it's during … [Read more...]
You are the Pea and I am the Carrot Book Review and Giveaway
Oh my gosh! How cute is this book!! And even though I am partial because of the cute little pea and carrot on the cover I really must say that "You are the Pea, and I am the Carrot" by J. Theron Elkins is one of the sweetest children's books I've read. … [Read more...]
100 Days of Real Food: Real Lunches, Real Easy eBook Sale!
I wanted to let you all know that 100 Days of Real Food is offering a special limited release of their new eBook, Real Lunches, Real Easy, starting today and going through Jan 27 and it's only $9!!! … [Read more...]
Top 13 Posts in 2013
First off, can I say thank you for all the kind comments and emails regarding the new look of Smashed Peas and Carrots. It was really a labor of love to get everything switched over and categorized correctly and I do so appreciate those that took the time to tell me what you thought! There were a few little hiccups, one in particular with the email subscriptions in the … [Read more...]
New Year, New Cozy Home!
Hello, friends! Happy 2014 to you all!!! I hope your New Year has started off on the right foot, I know ours sure has! I know the blog has been quiet during the holiday break but for good reason! Well, first I wanted to spend a bit of quality time at home with my littles who are on winter break from school (only 2 more days, holy moly it went by fast!) But also … [Read more...]
Bounty and Puffs Summer Survival
If you have children I bet you have felt like I have felt almost every day this summer...that the word child is just another word for tornado. Loud and messy, am I right! I still don't understand how such small bodies can take a perfectly clean room and turn it into a disaster area in no time flat. I am embarrassed to even show you these pictures but hey, it's life as I … [Read more...]
Updating Your Kitchen with Home Depot and BlogHer
Hey friends!Just wanted to share this quick video from Home Depot and BlogHer today! We definitely have a kitchen renovation project on our ever-growing list of home improvements...hopefully we can get to it someday soon. I love their idea of Replace, Reface, Renew...I'm crossing my fingers that we can renew our kitchen cabinets! I love them but would love them more if … [Read more...]
The Top 12 Tutorials in 2012!
I can't believe it's the last day of the year today, how the heck is tomorrow the beginning of 2013 already? I don't know about you but I'm always sad to see another year go by...it means I'm getting older and my kids are getting older, it just kills me to think that I am about to start Oliver on solid foods, whaaa the what? Stop growing up, baby! In looking back at the … [Read more...]
The Top 11 Tutorials of 2011
Wow, so 2011 is really over already? Well my momma just left from her after-Christmas/New Year's visit that she does with us every year, so I know that it's true...2012 is here to stay. I gotta say that I'm missing my momma big time right now. She always helps us ring in the New Year with so much fun and with so many good memories...ahhh, I love her. But let me tell … [Read more...]
The Top 10 in 2010
So New Year's Eve is tomorrow night...Eeep! Can you believe it! Another year is out the door and what a great one it was!! So many wonderful things to be thankful for this year but the most outstanding to us was bringing yet another healthy, happy baby into our home! What a wonderful addition Eloise is to our family :-) Today, I thought I would round up the Top 10 … [Read more...]
December 1st
Have you entered the Weebles Wobble and HasbroToyShop.com $100 gift card giveaway yet? Click HERE to enter!! Yup, it's here! December 1st has finally arrived. Now we can start doing this: Yay, an Advent Calendar...or well, I guess it's really an Advent House. I found this last year or the year before at the end of season clearance at Target and had to snatch it … [Read more...]
And the Weekend Begins…Now!
It's a long weekend here...Memorial Day weekend to be exact. We have lots of barbeque fun and outdoor relaxation lined up for the next few days, I'm so excited! I hope you can get outside a bit yourself and enjoy the sunshine...and maybe some pretty flowers like these... And these... Ahhh, so pretty! And I hope you can enjoy something yummy on the grill, maybe even … [Read more...]
Live, Love, Life
So, I wake up today with tired and red eyes and a headache from all the pressure of sadness from this weekend. On Saturday, my husband and I attended the memorial service of a dear friend of ours who died way too young at the age of 36. Our amazing friend, Bobby, was diagnosed 7 years ago with an inoperable brain tumor. The doctors had given him a window of 5-7 years to … [Read more...]
How About a Fresh New Look?
Oh boy! I'm so excited...have you noticed my new blog look? You like? I do! That blogger template was just getting to old skool for me. I needed some spice, some, some...something that said 'ME'. I think this does it, what do you think? Emily from The Blog Fairy helped me make-over my wonderful little bloggity blog, she is just splendid and she did such an amazing … [Read more...]
And the Oscar Goes to…
...ME!!! Yay! I'm so excited!!! Ahhhh, but it's not really an Oscar...yet! I just received my first blog award, what an honor! An almost unschooling mom at Almost Unschoolers gave me this recently: Isn't she lovely!?! If only I could put her on my mantle! Wow! I am just thrilled to pieces to get my first blog award, the fact that anyone even reads my little bloggity … [Read more...]
Joining the Blogworld
Ok, so I'm finally doing it. I am blogging. There is so much to figure out but I have all the time in the world, right? Inbetween parenting my children, all their activities, working part time, house remodeling, crafting, cleaning, cooking, baking, more cleaning oh, and it's summer...what else is there to do with one's time?This blog is going to be like the inside of my … [Read more...]
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