The past couple of years, we have made our own Valentine’s Day cards for the girls’ class parties. It  might not have saved us any money, and it definitely did not save us time, but they were fun to do. (for the most part 🙂 )

• Last year, we did this gold fish idea for Kristi (K-5) (we just used fold down sandwich bags and closed the bag with a twistie tie at the top).
• We did this cupcake liner idea for Karis last year. (When she was in 2nd grade). (We only used two cupcake liners per card–one big and one small.) [Read more…]

I said last week that I would share the invitations I made for my older daughter this week . . . and I totally forgot! So here they are! 

It was just a general girly party where we made bracelets, painted nails, and made cookies – girls are so easy!

Here’s what Kaylin’s invites looked like: [Read more…]

As any parent knows, birthday invitations can be very expensive, so I decided to make my own. Since I’ve made them already, I thought I would share them with you. This is a thrifty way of having nice looking invitations and thank you notes!

Joshua is having his first birthday party with friends right after his birthday on January 31 when he turns 5, so he has been on me to make his birthday invitations. I had bought Cars party favor bags and cars and cars party hats at garage sales this summer, so I made him car invitations. I was able to type in the information for Joshua’s party, but I left lines for you to be able to write out the information on them for yourself. Just click on the pictures below  to print! They should be about 5″ x 7″ in size.

I’ll try to get the ones I made for my daughter back in the fall up soon too!

The next couple of weeks, I am taking sort-of a break from blogging. What that means for you is that I won’t be posting as much. I will still try to come and do my week-in-review posts and maybe a couple of other posts, but I will have all five children at home who need my time and attention. I also will be trying to finalize my goals, get my calendars in order, and start writing for next year. [Read more…]

Many of you know that I made printables for Thanksgiving that our family used for family devotions, but would have been great for homeschooling or Sunday School purposes.

I started to think of what I could do for Christmas, and had a few ideas–but this is the only one I’ve been able to finish this year (and I probably won’t get any more done this year!) [Read more…]