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Toddler Friendly No – Carve Pumpkin Decorating Ideas

If your toddler is anything like my toddler, the very thought of carving a pumpkin this year probably has you rather frightened. Of course, picking out pumpkins with toddlers is a lot of fun so there is bound to be at least one pumpkin at your house. Here are a few no – carve pumpkin decorating ideas for you and your little ones so you can add some festive fall fun to your home without having to try in vain to explain the details of why Mommy can use a knife to cut a pumpkin and Junior can’t as Junior … Continue reading →

Blog Find-Buy Modern Baby

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I’d like to start looking for some great baby blogs for you. There are a lot of them out there! But, wouldn’t it be great to have someone else do all the work and find a blog that can help you along with a new baby? Time is precious, right? I think so. The world today is full of Mommy bloggers that are showing off their Mom skills both in how they decorate the nursery, to how they parent. I love them. Of course, being a blogger myself, I’m a little addicted to blogs. I found one the other day … Continue reading →

Enforcing Family Togetherness on Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving get-togethers used to be so much easier when the kids were little. Well, not in the sense of getting them ready and carting them around. But you could always count on the little ones entertaining everyone. Now that my kids and my nephews are teenagers, what often happens is that everyone disappears. So I am purposing to keep everyone together as much as possible this year. It was kind of a last minute decision but my family has ended up with the joy of hosting Thanksgiving. Despite not being as prepared as I would like, I am going into … Continue reading →

Decorating with Photographs

Taking photographs can be a great hobby. Photos can also be a great personal and relatively inexpensive way to decorate your home. Some people might want a collage of family photos and they can look quite effective having a display and it makes a house very personal and like a home. Another idea might to take photos of your area or a particular feature that appeals to you like rivers or bridges, sand dunes or buildings. Recently I entered a competition for photographs to go on a calendar of the area. It’s not that I’m an expert photographer by any … Continue reading →

Ways to Have Fun While Decorating for an Outdoor Party

If a tight budget has put the kibosh on your plans to host an outdoor party this summer, then I have good news for you. There are many simple ways to liven up your outdoor entertaining space without going broke and without making it look like a kiddie party ala balloons and paper streamers. One very inexpensive way to brighten up your party area is to use fresh fruit as part of your decor. Lemons, limes, apples, oranges, pomegranates and kumquats placed in a glass bowl or cylinder make an easy and vibrant centerpiece. Another way to add splashes of … Continue reading →

More Inexpensive Home Decorating Ideas

Last week we looked at some inexpensive home decorating ideas. Here are some more. Use your photographs as a decoration. One way is to make a collage of photos from your family’s life. I used to have one large wall in our family room dedicated to photos of our family. Eventually it spread to two walls. You could track our family, and the various homes we’d lived in and pets we’d had, through that wall. I bought simple inexpensive frames and then rather than only put half a dozen or so photos in the allotted spots. I took the sectioned … Continue reading →

Inexpensive Home Decorating Ideas

Decorating your home is a very individual thing. When money is tight decorating becomes more of a challenge but far from impossible. Some of the things we have tried in past times were using photographs and pictures from calendars. Framing them in inexpensive frames and grouping them together as a display. Gift wrapping paper can also be used the same way. Select papers that complement each in design and color. Frame them and then arrange in a diamond pattern or some other interesting combination one wall. Stencils are another inexpensive way of brightening up a home and relatively inexpensive and … Continue reading →

Frugal Fall Family Decorating

Why not get everyone together to do some fun and frugal decorating for fall? You don’t have to spend $100 on pumpkins and hay bales, either! Hand print turkeys Nothing is more cute in the fall, I think, then all of those hand print turkeys. I made my first one in school (standard fare), and have since taught this craft to my kids. Basically, you trace a hand on a piece of fall colored construction paper. Make sure to have the fingers splayed out. Then, you turn that hand print into a turkey, using the thumb for the head and … Continue reading →

Decorating Pumpkins With Your Baby or Toddler

Halloween is coming! Yes, I know, it’s miles away as I post this, and you’re still thinking about fun summer activities…but it’s sneaking up on us. I’m already planning a trip to the pumpkin patch with great anticipation. Pumpkin-carving is such a fun activity to do with a young family. How can you get your baby or toddler involved? Pumpkins can be carved, but they can also be decorated. What’s the difference? Well, carving involves knives. Now, I love a well-carved pumpkin, but I am the first to admit that I am not artistically talented. And leaving me with knife … Continue reading →

Decorating Tips for a Toddler’s Room

When my daughter was a toddler she was obsessed with Blue’s Clues. However, I refused to wallpaper her room with a blue dog I knew she would lose interest in by her third birthday. Still, I wanted to spruce up her bedroom with something associated with her beloved animated character. The solution: A large felt board ala Freddie the Felt Frame Boy. Not wanting to drop a bundle on a pre-made felt board I decided to make my own by visiting a craft store and purchasing an extra large foam board, which I covered with felt myself. I then bought … Continue reading →